My Background
I was born in Portland, Maine, but hail from Storrs, Connecticut, just outside of the UConn campus. My family members work in a wide array of professions, including start-up CEO, SpaceX aerospace engineer, professor of psychology, entrepreneur, and non-profit executive director.
My Career Path
I graduated from Duke University with a degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science. I am now a senior software engineer on the Ranking Infrastructure Team at Google, working on Google Search.
My Hobbies
Outside of my main career path as a Software Engineer, much of my free time is devoted to looking after and training my West Highland Terrier Ava. I also enjoy skiing, hiking, painting and performing independent research.
Who Am I?
I have always had a passion for design and innovation. From the elaborate fairy houses my twin brother and I used to build, to my first coding project in high school (a recreation of the game Pandemic using Java), I have found purpose in the creation of tools, products, etc.
In college, I sought to inspire others with my own passion. As Co-President of Girls Engineering Change (a Duke student organization), I worked to promote female involvement in STEM fields, hosting engineering workshops each semester for young girls in the Durham Community and encouraging mentorship between younger and older members.
I have had the chance to apply my technical skills in a variety of roles -- as an intern at Zuora (a subscription management platform company in San Mateo), an undergraduate researcher specializing in electrical engineering in the Bohórquez Laboratory at Duke University and an undergraduate teaching assistant for the Duke Computer Science Department. In Summer 2018, I was a SWE intern on the Travel Team at Google in Mountain View.
I now work as a full-time engineer on Google Search Ranking Infrastructure, tackling problems related to latency optimization, search quality, information retrieval, API development, etc. I work as a generalist rather than a specialist and own the "How Search Ranking Works" documentation for Nooglers.
Contact Me
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