About
As the co-founder and CTO of unPLUG Dining, I lead the development and system architecture of a platform that automates, personalizes, and optimizes the end-to-end dining experience. We use machine learning, mobile solutions, and a comprehensive integration infrastructure to create seamless and engaging interactions between customers, restaurants, and fulfillment services. I enjoy working with talented, diverse teams with a common mission. I am always eager to learn new skills, technologies, and domains, and solve challenging and meaningful problems.
Experience
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
unPLUG Dining · Chicago, IL
Present
A data-driven approach to dining that automates, personalizes, and optimizes the end-to-end dining experience.
Machine Learning Engineer
Pensa Systems · Austin, Texas, United States
Infrastructure and Backend Engineer
Pensa Systems · Austin, Texas
Software Engineer Intern
Wasabi Technologies, Inc. · 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
• Wasabi is a new generation cloud storage provider, designed to be faster and cheaper than AWS S3. • During my summer internship I worked closely with the Director of QA to test and validate the implementation and performance of the Wasabi Hot Storage System. • Worked on building an API test framework and wrote automation scripts using the company’s cloud storage GUI. • Worked with the marketing and product development teams to document application use cases and requirements to compose version 1.0 of the Wasabi user guide.
System Programing Course Honors Project - Classroomlivestream
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
• Worked with a team of three to implement the “ClassroomLiveStream” SDK for our CS241 System Programing class honors project. • We designed and built an Android to Cloud solution, that sends and receives live video streams. The system uses an RTCP server and receives real-time footage from any Android device. • Used cloud infrastructure tooling and pre-existing video streaming libraries as well as open-source code such as the “Libstreaming” library to quickly deliver software.
Software Development Intern
Invstr · Istanbul, Turkey
• Fintech company that provides brokerage services with social networking/fantasy finance for users on iOS and Android mobile platforms. • Six-week internship with the software design & development team building a series of mobile app features for the Invstr community. • Worked as a user experience tester. Compiled daily reports with particular emphasis on ease of navigation and modern app layouts. • Converted app user feedback and bug descriptions into weekly reports for the product management team. This was used in prioritizing upcoming engineering deliverables.
Education
Stanford University
Managment Science, Engineering, SVIA Finalist, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science
The Hill School
Alumnus, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
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