Staff Software Engineer, Coupang Intelligent Cloud
2025-02Present
Coupang, Inc
- Led disambiguation of product requirements and end-to-end design and implementation of customer-facing networking features supporting Machine Learning workloads in a greenfield AI cloud environment.
- Served as founding engineer for the Coupang Intelligent Cloud AI platform, defining core architecture, technical direction, and standards for AI training and inference infrastructure.
- Owned application networking components for the on-premise cloud, including design, configuration, and optimization of services enabling reliable, secure connectivity for AI workloads.
- Collaborated directly with vendors to negotiate terms, evaluate and test products, and design infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference, including hands-on work with NVIDIA DGX H200 and B200 hardware and associated tooling.
- Operated and supported on-premise AI cloud solutions, leading complex debugging efforts across the stack to resolve customer issues ranging from firmware defects and scaling bottlenecks to TLS certificate expiry and other production incidents.
- Provided mentorship to junior engineers on system design, code quality, and advanced debugging, while influencing architecture and technical decisions across multiple teams within the organization.
Founding Engineer, Amazon Publisher Cloud
2022-012025-02
Amazon.com, Inc.
- Spearheaded the launch of the Amazon Publisher Cloud product suite as the inaugural engineer, collaborating effectively with product, management, engineering, sales, legal, and external partners to deliver a net-new product
- Acted as a technical liaison, negotiating and designing crucial product integrations for both internal and external stakeholders, directly impacting target customer engagement.
- Delivered a General Availability (GA) product in a new advertising market, thriving in a fast-paced environment characterized by high ambiguity.
- Partnered closely with AWS Clean Rooms during their alpha phase, enhancing product experiences and shaping strategic technical visions.
- Tackled highly-ambiguous and challenging problems such as machine learning modeling, identity-loss in advertising, and optimizing Spark ETL job performance in AWS, contributing to innovative solutions.
- Developed robust data models for AWS Clean Rooms, ensuring efficient data handling and processing.
- Maintained consistent communication and collaboration across diverse teams, ensuring clarity and alignment in project objectives.
- Proofread and refined technical documentation to ensure accuracy and clarity, supporting seamless knowledge transfer and stakeholder understanding.
Software Development Engineer II
2020-032022-01
Amazon.com, Inc.
- Collaboratively designed, developed, tested, deployed, and operated features for Programmatic Advertising and Big Data analytics within Amazon Publisher Services, enhancing service efficiency and user engagement.
- Adopted cloud-native development on AWS, utilizing CI/CD and code-driven configuration with the CDK, which streamlined automated deployment infrastructure, testing, monitoring, and issue alerting.
- Acquired proficiency in new technologies to modernize legacy systems and launch new products, delivering features in languages such as Bash, Python, Java, Scala, Ruby, Typescript, and PHP as needed.
- Shaped organizational vision around reporting, data pipelines, observability, and cost efficiency, significantly improving the quality and accuracy of customer-facing reports.
- Actively mentored engineers within the organization, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous professional development across teams.
- Led initiatives to enhance system observability and cost efficiency, resulting in improved operational insights and reduced expenses.
- Maintained consistency and clarity in all technical documentation, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer and understanding among team members.
- Ensured error-free code and documentation through diligent proofreading and adherence to industry best practices, contributing to high-quality software delivery.
Software Engineer III
2019-102020-03
Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Collaboratively designed, developed, and tested features for Observability within Cisco DNA Center's Cloud-native application infrastructure.
- Practiced test-driven feature development in Bash, Ansible, Go, Python, and Java.
- Created and Optimized Docker Images for a wide variety of applications.
- Implemented highly-available, distributed services with strictly-enforced security, serviceability, and performance requirements.
- Evaluated and productized Open Source technologies to provide customer value.
- Worked across teams and across releases in a fast-paced, Agile environment with strict deadlines
Software Engineer II
2018-102019-09
Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Collaboratively designed, developed, and tested features for Software Defined
Networking policy control within Cisco DNA Center.
- Practiced test-driven feature development in Java with strictly-enforced quality, security, and unit test coverage requirements.
- Utilized Python for automated feature and regression testing with strictly-enforced
coverage requirements.
- Researched, designed, and implemented proofs of concept projects that required low-level networking knowledge, agility, adaptability, and a high level of collaboration
- Worked across teams in a fast paced, Agile environment with strict deadlines
IT Software Engineer
2017-012018-09
Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Acted as technical lead in the analysis, design, and implementation of a horizontally-scalable data ingestion pipeline that processes over 50 million events per day.
- Developed a schema-driven, dynamically-configurable data migration and ingestion Java framework to transform Oracle change events into Elasticsearch documents. This framework is relied on in Cisco IT production to this day.
- Developed highly-performant RESTful web services and tools to support them in Node.JS.
- Designed, queried, debugged, and maintained NoSQL and SQL data stores in Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Couchbase, and Oracle.
- Implemented real-time analytic capabilities in Node.JS and Java applications using Kafka, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.
- Utilized Docker, Kubernetes, and Nginx to ensure enterprise scalability and enforce a
zero-downtime deployment strategy.
- Led a global team in a fast paced, Agile environment that met strict deadlines.
Software Development Internships
2015-052016-08
Applied Systems, Inc.
- Created and enhanced numerous internal applications for developer productivity.
- Developed in Visual Studio using C#, VB, SQL, and XAML with Team Foundation Server for version control.
- Led and mentored three other interns while working in an Agile environment.