Co-founder, Chief Architect
Amplitude
- Helped grow Amplitude's business to over $300M/year in revenue and 800 employees.
- Architected and built multiple generations of the Amplitude product, including high-throughput event ingestion systems, an in-house columnar data warehouse, and core AI infrastructure.
- Was the most prolific individual contributor (10k+ commits, 5k+ code reviews) as well as an engineering and product leader (setting long-term strategy/direction).
- Mentored 100+ engineers ranging from new grad to principal level and developed a high-ownership, practically-driven engineering culture.
- Participated in hundreds of customer meetings and investor/analyst presentations discussing Amplitude's technology and product, including the process leading up to the public listing.
- Actively managed and optimized a $50M/year AWS infrastructure (primarily EC2, S3, DynamoDB).
Senior Software Engineer
Sumo Logic
- Built and maintained a dynamic configuration and ingestion endpoint for log collection agents.
- Optimized search query performance through online merging of hot Lucene indices.
Lead Backend Engineer
Clinkle
- Led the backend engineering team at an early-stage mobile payments startup, building the infrastructure for a mobile wallet.
Software Engineer
Palantir
- Built a Cassandra-based distributed log processing system for efficient searching and filtering over terabytes of log data.
