Google

My team is within the social impact arm of Google Search. We research and develop ways to better serve those searching for civic or educational information. Our research involves analyzing the massive dataset of Search queries and working with research scientists across the organization. We develop within the Google Search infrastructure and run live experiments that reach millions of Search users every day, with the goal of making a quality education universally accessible as well as inform and further engage those who come to Search with civic informational needs.

I also lead two initiatives for women at Google:

• A "Search Women's Circle" - a monthly conversation that brings together women across the organization.
• Coordinate the New York Search Women in Engineering group.

Hillary For America

The HFA technology team worked 7days/week from the campaign headquarters for the Democratic presidential nominee.

Built data infrastructure that powered the campaign and supported our analytics team, as well as led the engineering design and development for several projects:

• The campaign’s email system, used to compose and send millions of organizing and fundraising emails. This application allowed our team to scientifically cut lists of recipients and run A/B tests to discover the most successful language in emails, and then view open rates and donations generated by the emails immediately after sending. It also enabled personalizing mass emails so that they acknowledged not only the recipient’s names, but also their past contributions. Hillary Clinton's digital team raised over a third of the campaign’s budget and email accounted for 65-70% of that.
• A Facebook Messenger chatbot used for voter registration and voter protection (see projects).
• The service that shortened and personalized links sent out to voters. Reason this was necessary: Organizers sent out text message blasts with links that needed to be personalized for the individual recipients. The volume of shortlinks needed was too high for services like Bitly without an expensive contract, so we built our own system.
• Data science research exploring the effect of language used by candidates on social media, in partnership with a Google language expert.

Mast Mobile

Mast Mobile is a telecom startup building an intelligent mobile communications network.

• As the second full time engineer, helped transform a prototype into a scaled-out platform serving customers as an intelligent mobile carrier network.
• Worked with third party network partners, such as Sprint, to build the technology to seamlessly interface with their platforms.
• Contributed to large open source software projects we used, such as Kazoo and MongooseIM, and represented the company at conferences.

Blue Ridge Labs Fellowship

Blue Ridge Labs is a social impact incubator with a fellowship that brings together entrepreneurs, designers, and developers to build for communities that are often overlooked by technology.

• Led engineering on a team partnering with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and built a mobile client management tool for house cleaners available in both English and Spanish.
• Closely collaborated with research and UX experts on user studies and design.

Press:

• Forbes article
• Venture Beat

Huffpost Labs

Huffpost Labs operated as a startup embedded within the Huffington Post, exploring and building innovations for digital journalism.

• Consulted with Huffpost's editors to design and build tools to advance digital journalism.
• Built and launched four products, such as a tool for producing online quizzes and embedding them in articles. The Huffington Post sold more than $120k in sponsored content with this tool within the first four months of its release.
• Co-invented and launched a technology the company patented.
• Published articles about technology, such as my series on Bitcoin:
  • 1: Bitcoin Demystified: A Hacker's Perspective
  • 2: Bitcoin Demystified: Math vs. Government
  • 3: Bitcoin Demystified: Security in Decentralization

Brown University Computer Science Department

• Managed team of 3 other teaching assistants.
• Wrote and graded course content and assignments, held office hours, proctored semiweekly labs, and ran review sessions.

Worked closely with Professor Philip Klein to help develop and write content, problem sets, and labs for his recently published textbook: Coding The Matrix: Linear Algebra Through Computer Science Applications".