I am a self-driven and cross functional full-stack engineer with a consistent track record of being a subject matter expert in payments and LLM observability.
The organizational driver of third party ML and LLM observability vendor and subject matter expert of LLM observability across Reddit teams.
LLM observability subject matter expert across Reddit teams and driver of relationship with third party vendor Arize. Created tooling to evaluate and monitor the quality of LLM repsonses. With this tooling: I improved a team's availability from 70% to 98% and reduced start to experiment time from 2 hours to 30 minutes.
Implemented copywriting chat tool with Python, React, and Gemini. Tool saved team $20,000 per month in vendor costs.
Led cross-team initiative to build a promotion system, increasing monthly active advertisers by 20% and shipping two months early. Designed and implemented API, Postgres tables, RPC handlers, and cron job architecture.
Designed and implemented data pipelines to review 50,000 ad products an hour for ad safety. Equivalent manual review coverage would have required 15-20 additional headcount
Domain owner for Venmo's debit card, online checkout, and financial auditing systems.
Discovered and resolved bugs which resulted in saving Venmo $5 million dollars in unrecoverable losses per year.
Implemented interactive voice response user authentication using five9, Django REST, MySQL, and Redis caching for rate limiting during Venmo hack week. Feature reduced 2 minutes per customer support call.