Velocity &
Intelligent Intent.
Current Focus
Engineering @ YouTube
Principles
Management Philosophy
Building high-performance organizations through engineering culture.
Velocity
Reducing friction and latency in the development lifecycle.
Effectiveness
Ensuring tools and processes drive meaningful outcomes.
Craftsmanship
Promoting excellence in engineering standards and quality.
Happiness
Improving the developer experience and overall satisfaction.
Career Journey
August 2022 - Present
•San Francisco Bay Area
YouTube
Software Engineering Manager
Strategizing and executing initiatives to elevate engineering craftsmanship, productivity, and happiness across a global engineering organization.
Applying advanced DevEx principles to solve complex infrastructure challenges and streamline developer workflows at Google scale.
January 2020 - April 2022
•San Francisco, CA
Databricks
Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Platform
Scaled Databricks' dev platform and infra to support 4x engineers (~800) and 20x automated testing (20k+ CPU hours every day).
Built a per-service deployment platform and dismantled the biweekly monolithic release train, enabling daily deployments with confidence.
Unified fractured SDLC processes across Control Plane (web services) and Data Plane (runtime) teams.

2018 - 2020
•Palo Alto, CA
Argo AI
Head of Developer Infrastructure
Reduced vehicle update time by 90% (from 1.5 hours to <10 mins), covering OS, binaries, firmware, and HD maps.
Scaled up cloud and on-prem vehicle deployment infra to support 6 US cities, 100+ AVs, and 200+ Fleet laptops.
Migrated build system to Bazel, enabling polyglot (C++, Rust, Java, Golang) monorepo support and cross-arch compilation.

2016 - 2018
•Mountain View, CA
Didi
Director of Engineering
Built the overseas International Payments team from ground up: recruited 8 engineers to build Didi's next-gen payments platform.
Led the technical post-merger integration of 99 (Brazil), incorporating their product development processes and data infra into HQ.
Led 30+ engineers in Beijing to transform developer experience with opinionated but frictionless platforms, from repository management to result analytics (A/B testing).
2013 - 2016
•Mountain View, CA
Staff Software Engineer
Led the 'Play-on-Gradle' initiative to unify the fractured build tooling landscape at LinkedIn (sbt vs Gradle).
Streamlined the inner dev-loop: achieved faster Scala build times and native Play/Scala IDE support.
Built enterprise-level automated dependency management services for all LinkedIn projects.
2007 - 2013
•Reston, VA
SuccessFactors (SAP)
Lead Software Engineer
Responsible for experimenting and launching new technologies, frameworks, and tools across the organization.
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business
LEAD Business Program, Executive Education

University of Central Florida
MS, Computer Science

University of Science and Technology of China
BS, Computer Science