Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer on the Google Travel team. I lead development of new formats & improvements on the Google Hotels ads booking module.
I get to work on a product with hundreds of millions of daily users. I run experiments every day to improve ad performance by a couple percentage points, which translates into large revenue gains. I also get to learn from some of the most accomplished software engineers in the industry.
Before that, I interned on the Google Flights team. Over the course of a summer, I and a scrappy band of interns redesigned and rewrote from scratch the frontend of the Matrix flight search engine. This search engine has a loyal following of over 200,000 flight enthusiasts.
Cambridge, MA
2021 – Now (full time)
Summer 2020 (intern)
Smartcar
Software Engineering Intern
Smartcar's core product is an API to remotely control any vehicle. Think lock, unlock, climate control, windows, etc. I reverse-engineered the Chrysler and Volkswagen Android apps, in order to figure out their APIs and integrate them into the core product. I spent many hours in the sunny office parking lot, remotely poking and prodding Smartcar's fleet of test cars.
Smartcar was a small company at the time, no more than 15 employees. I enjoyed the challenge of working at an early-stage startup, doing everything from code to design to hosting a hackathon. I learned more in those three months about software engineering that I ever had before, and made some lifelong friends along the way.
Mountain View, CA
Summer 2019
