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Engineering Leadership

Velocity &
Intelligent Intent.

Engineering Leader & DevInfra Specialist at YouTube.

Elevating Development Velocity, Effectiveness, and Intelligent Intent

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

YouTube

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.

Databricks

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.

Argo AI

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.

Didi

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).

LinkedIn

2013 - 2016

Mountain View, CA

LinkedIn

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.

SuccessFactors (SAP)

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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Foundation

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

LEAD Business Program, Executive Education

University of Central Florida

University of Central Florida

MS, Computer Science

University of Science and Technology of China

University of Science and Technology of China

BS, Computer Science

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