Amazon Ads

Oct 2024 - Present

Working in the Data Engineering team responsible for data onboarding into the Amazon Marketing Cloud platform

• Spearheaded a solo data migration project that deprecated a legacy dataset, reducing daily processing from hundreds of billions to 20 billion records by eliminating duplication.
• Optimized a Scala/Spark ETL workflow, shrinking the AWS EMR cluster from 300 to 50 nodes and slashing annual operational costs by $52K (74%), from ̃$70K to ̃$18K.
• Designed and deployed a high-throughput internal API using Kotlin, materializing 10 million daily records from an Apache Iceberg table into DynamoDB to serve data to internal services.

Liao Lab Group @ NYU Courant Institute

Feb 2024 - Oct 2024

Worked as Junior Laboratory Associate at Liao Group, helping Professor Susan Liao with biological computing research focused on RNA splicing.

• Developed a web interface using JavaScript, Flask, HTML/CSS for visualizing RNA splicing predictions, which was selected for presentation at the IEEE VisXai Workshop, improving research workflow for 5+ lab members.
• Built automated data analysis pipelines in Python using CellProfiler, Pandas, and Matplotlib to process and visualize cell profiling data from 200+ biological samples, generating actionable insights from large bio datasets.
• Mentored three undergraduate students in biological computing research, leading them presenting their work at an IEEE workshop, securing industry internships, and advancing to additional research opportunities.

Amazon Ads

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Interning as a Data Engineer at the Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) team for paid features.

• Engineered an observability framework in Scala for Spark jobs on AWS EMR, monitoring 500+ daily Spark tasks processing petabytes of data, providing detailed performance insights into shuffle, spill, and task execution metrics for distributed data pipelines.
• Developed real-time analytics dashboards in Quicksight, monitoring Spark application health, tracking performance metrics across 2 production pipelines, allowing the team to proactively identify performance bottlenecks.
• Implemented cloud infrastructure with AWS CDK in TypeScript, designing automated deployment pipelines integrated with production and beta environments, enabling near real-time data ingestion and processing of hundreds of records per minute for applications serving millions of customer data views.

New York University

September 2021 - Dec 2023

Programming Tutor:

• Conducted over 150 tutoring sessions across 2-3 classes per semester, supporting around 800 students annually with programming concepts.
• Provided flexible tutoring services, including in-person and drop-in Zoom meetings for 10+ hours weekly.
• Enhanced student engagement and understanding in Python programming through personalized instruction.

Resident Assistant:

• Created, marketed, and led student-centered hall events to promote social, educational, and emotional growth.
• Promoted interaction and construction of social networks between community and residents.
• Implemented and enforced College and Campus Living policies, promoting academic excellence.