Education

University of Maryland - College Park, MD

  • B.S. Computer Science
  • Class of 2010

Experience

Microsoft Corporation

Software Engineer II - Digital Win Room (April 2018 - Present)

  • More information coming soon :)

Software Engineer II - Office Engineering (January 2013 - April 2018)

  • Developed features for the Office Automation Authoring Team. Built features in the test framework and test execution engine used for unit tests and integration tests across Office
  • Led group programming sessions with team members, working together on a single project as a form of knowledge sharing about proper coding practices such as safe refactoring and test-driven development
  • Mentored nine interns over the course of three summers, six of whom won top prizes at an intern product fair
  • Attended over 10 on-campus college recruiting events including career fairs, giving tech talks, running coding competitions, and on-site interviews
  • Stood up Microsoft-wide license server for NCrunch and ReSharper and evangelized usage across the company. Built telemetry tools for tracking usage and reported findings to upper management
  • Assisted customers via email or internal stackoverflow site with any issues in automation framework, NCrunch onboarding, or questions about how to effectively write unit tests for their product
  • Set up ReSharper booth at org-wide engineering fair and showed people how to effectively refactor code
  • Increased reliability of Android emulator test runner for cross platform unit tests. Worked with teams to get their existing unit tests that ran on Windows to run on Android
  • Worked on on-call support team, fixing bugs and reducing support costs by adding documentation, increasing reliability of framework, and adding additional telemetry for debugging
  • Began proof of concept for moving Office Automation to new cloud testing platform, worked with product teams to ensure their tests will be compatible in new system
  • Organized events as a part of the intern social club, bringing together interns from different organizations to socialize and get to know the Seattle area
  • Built cloud monitoring framework to allow teams to run their existing automation against production services
  • Updated and stabilized Visual Studio plugin for Office build tools and running tests from our internal test framework, including running tests through the plugin in the cloud testing system

Software Development Engineer in Test - Office.com (August 2010 - December 2012)

  • Owned testing in the client and web spaces for ClipArt authoring and rendering on Office.com, Insert Media and File Save As in Office 2013 client applications
  • Led team in improving code quality and automation culture by finding areas of low test coverage, building tools, and writing shared code to make automation more reliable. Increased number of tests running on daily builds by 257%
  • Evangelized proper testing techniques in Automation, World Readiness, Dogfood adoption, and OneDrive partnerships
  • Wrote automation infrastructure and tools for team to easily build application-agnostic automation
  • Created a code review committee and trained members to give feedback and approve code for check-in
  • Received patent: Inserting Media Content From Multiple Repositories, US Patent 9396197 B2

Pitney Bowes Inc.

Software Engineer I (September 2008 - May 2010)

  • Wrote code for products in Java, JSP, C++, C# including service and client-side code for cloud based versions of existing products that ran on mainframes

On-call Technical Support (July 2006 - August 2008)

Projects

To see all my open source projects, please visit my github

Patents

Giving Back

Since 2010, I have been proud to support the Makuyu Education Initiative.

Makuyu Education Initiative is a children’s home for approximately 16 children in grades 1 - 4. All the children come from extremely impoverished backgrounds. Some have escaped from Al-Shabab militias near the border with Somalia. Others have lost parents due to the HIV epidemic or because their parents abandoned them. The children’s home provides the children with an opportunity to escape the poverty that they were born into by giving them a safe place to sleep, nutritious meals, access to medical care, access to a quality education, and, perhaps most importantly, a loving family.

The children from the Makuyu Education Initiative enjoying some watermelons in the summer of 2016The children from the Makuyu Education Initiative enjoying some watermelons in the summer of 2016

All of the funds we collect go directly to Kenya to help the children and we are 501(c)(3) certified. For more information, please visit their website or visit their Facebook page and consider donating!