Google Maps
I'm currently an area tech lead on Google Maps, where I've been working for 15 years. My teams and I work on reviews, photos, and user-generated content on Maps.
If you've written a review or submitted a photo, you've used our tech. If you use price ranges ("$10–$20") or star ratings (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐), that's us too.
These features help millions of people around the world. I help set the bar for them — how they're built, and what the tradeoffs are.
Google Maps
Early in my career I worked on the basic measurement infrastructure of Google Maps, and later became the go-to expert on Maps experiments for hundreds of teams. For years I advised lead PMs and core teams on how to build, run, and understand them.
Google Maps
I led efforts for our 100-person org to coordinate our engineering design, playing the connector role across teams. I created and led design forums, using my broad knowledge and visibility to help everyone work together more.
Google Maps
I ran projects that needed support from tens to hundreds of teams, bridging the gaps with clear technical communication and by anticipating what each group would need.
Machine Learning · Honors research
The Discovery and Use of Ordinal Information on Attribute Values in Classifier Learning
My honors research was the capstone of this degree, and it grew into a peer-reviewed paper published in 2011.
The work shows how to discover and use ordinal structure in attribute values — the natural ordering among them — to help classifiers learn better.
Read the paper