Career Timeline

Experience & Education.

An overview of my engineering experience and academic background across backend systems, cloud data workflows, test automation, and system validation.

Work History

Experience

01

Software Engineer | Azure CXP

Microsoft · Redmond, WA

April 2024 – December 2025

Built and optimized cloud data workflows, backend systems, an internal Azure analytics dashboard, and automated test coverage for cloud consumption, telemetry, and billing analytics.

  • Modernized legacy Scala ETL logic by rewriting and simplifying 20+ Azure Synapse data pipelines in PySpark, processing billions of Azure usage and billing records for Fortune 500 customers and internal Microsoft teams.
  • Reduced runtime of 3 production Apache Spark pipelines by 75%, from 24 hours to 5–6 hours, through stage-retry fixes, worker scaling, partition pruning, and join optimization, accelerating customer reporting.
  • Built end-to-end ETL data pipelines with Cosmos DB, Cosmos SCOPE, and Kusto/KQL to ingest, validate, and surface 80+ Azure telemetry metrics in a stakeholder-facing dashboard for usage and cloud performance reporting.
  • Maintained and expanded 150+ Playwright E2E tests in TypeScript, increasing dashboard test coverage and stabilizing flaky tests across 3 dashboard domains.
PythonPySparkAzure SynapseAzure Data FactoryCosmos DBKusto/KQLPlaywrightTypeScriptReactC#Azure DevOps

02

Software Engineer | Xbox Manufacturing Tests

Microsoft · Redmond, WA

March 2022 – September 2023

Developed reliability and system validation test suites for prior and next-generation Xbox consoles.

  • Built and maintained 6 Xbox reliability test suites in C# and C++, each containing 20–60 automated tests covering hardware, firmware, OS, networking, and thermal validation, supporting release readiness for 9 console programs.
  • Stabilized long-running Xbox reliability tests by resolving memory leaks, port exhaustion, cross-stack failures, and test infrastructure issues, unblocking technicians and engineers across 7 global hardware labs.
  • Automated Xbox test log extraction to Excel, reducing manual data entry for lab technicians.
  • Improved code quality and security across 4 production repositories by resolving 120+ CodeQL issues in C# and C++, addressing vulnerabilities and maintainability risks.
  • Refactored 41 legacy C# projects and migrated pre-built NuGet packages to reduce main repo build time by 30 minutes.
C#C++.NET FrameworkPowerShellPythonCodeQLAzure DevOpsKustoXAMLScrum

03

Software Engineer Intern | Xbox Experience Data

Microsoft · Redmond, WA

February 2016 – August 2016

Built analytics scripts, dashboard metric tiles, and internal tools to surface Cortana usage insights for Xbox engineering teams.

  • Developed Cosmos SCOPE analytics scripts (SQL, C#) to aggregate Cortana speech usage data, helping engineering teams identify high-impact voice features for Cortana’s release on Xbox One.
  • Built 10+ OnePulse metric tiles and an ASP.NET dashboard in C# and JavaScript to visualize Cortana usage trends, improving access to voice-feature and speech-interaction insights.
  • Collected 40+ speech samples across multiple accents and reported findings, supporting Cortana release readiness.
ASP.NETC#Cosmos SCOPESQL ServerU-SQLJavaScriptjQueryHTMLCSSBootstrap

04

Co-Teacher | C# & CompTIA A+

Year Up · Redmond, WA

September 2015 – November 2015

Supported students preparing for internships by teaching C# and IT fundamentals.

  • Led weekly lessons covering C#, IT fundamentals, and CompTIA A+ preparation.
  • Created study guides and practice materials to help students strengthen technical foundations.
C#CompTIA A+TeachingTechnical Mentorship