Work and Projects
Z
LLM
RAG
NodeJS
React
Interactive AI storytelling game engine, in the works!
Z is a personal project. I wanted to explore ideas in context retrieval and how story writers might be able to steer an overarching plot that still has room for a player to make choices and interact with the environment of the story.
FB Creator Monetization - Privacy & Safety
React
GraphQL
PHP/Hack
I led privacy & safety engineering for Facebook's digital assets marketplace. Key contributions:
- Collaborated biweekly with internal legal teams to identify privacy concerns and misuse scenarios unique to public blockchain transactions.
- Identified and drove the development of engineering mitigations balancing regulatory requirements with user experience
- Authored documents used in FTC filings, ensuring compliance with regulations
FB Messenger Graph
Recommendation ML
Data
PHP/Hack
Team technical lead on Messenger Graph. Projects include:
- Contact recommendations data lineage audit: Identified and removed stale and inaccurately populated user contact data that was erroneously retrieved for contact recommendations
- Phone book data compliance: Worked closely with signals research engineers to remove phone number to user matching signals for compliance, while maintaining baseline app growth.
- Contact model refactor
Shibuya
NodeJS
React
LLM
Founding engineer at Shibuya, an a16z-funded company in entertainment tech
- Prototyped a variety of AI tools for film - storyboard tooling and LLM powered puzzle game
- Built interactive video player enabling multiple routes to be taken in a watch session.
- Shopify and Stripe integrations for fans to purchase collectibles
Collab - Social Music Creation
FFmpeg
Django
Collab was born during the covid pandemic: a way for musicians to connect and jam asynchronously. Up to six videos can be stitched together to play simultaneously.
Musicians can swipe clips in and out to create new remixes of existing songs.
As a product engineer, I investigated and executed retention strategies on the feed and discovery surfaces.
