Experience
13+ years building and operating production systems at enterprise scale — currently a Staff Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki.
Cisco Meraki
2021 – PresentSan Francisco, CA
Staff Software Engineer
- Architected Cisco Cloud Control — the canonical topology data service for all Meraki devices and organizations, serving network state via a pull REST API and a Kafka-backed push path — featured at Cisco Live 2026 as the company's unified topology platform.
- Set API and integration standards now adopted across 20+ public APIs; design docs for Config History and Topology APIs became shared components across all Network Platform teams.
- Go-to integration expert for Catalyst hardware on the Meraki platform; mentor 5–10 engineers and serve as subject-matter expert during Sev1 incidents.
Technical Lead
- Shipped General Availability for Catalyst Switching, Wireless, and Routing in the Meraki Dashboard, expanding support across the full Catalyst portfolio.
- Built Catalyst Wireless onboarding from the ground up — no Catalyst wireless support existed on the platform before — scaling to 100K+ devices.
- Cut Global Overview dashboard response times from 30s+ timeouts to under 5s with a sharded, low-latency data fetching architecture.
Handshake
2020 – 2021San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer II
- Designed, optimized, and versioned high-traffic Rails APIs powering mobile clients for millions of active users.
- Built Elasticsearch indexing and sync pipelines powering search and API-driven experiences across the platform.
- Shipped Virtual Career Fair infrastructure, resume parser integration, and external job apply flows.
CoStar Group
2018 – 2020San Francisco & Norfolk, VA
Software Engineer II · BizBuySell
- Built .NET Core REST APIs and asynchronous background workloads across BizBuySell, BizQuest, and FindaFranchise.
- Delivered revenue and data initiatives — stabilized the sales forecasting pipeline, ingested analytics into MS SQL, and shipped Logstash sync jobs into Elasticsearch.
Senior Software Engineer · Apartments Network
- Consolidated ForRent inventory into core CoStar systems after the acquisition, aligning schemas for a unified source of truth.
Dominion Enterprises — ForRent Media Solutions
2015 – 2018Norfolk, VA
Web Developer Intern → Senior Software Engineer
- Modernized ForRent.com by migrating to an API-driven AngularJS front end, decoupling rendering from direct SQL queries.
- Built Elasticsearch-backed reporting with Java/Spring ETL jobs, and Kafka/Logstash ingestion pipelines for low-latency content delivery.
Old Dominion University
2014 – 2015Norfolk, VA
Teaching & Research Assistant
- Built components for an indoor localization prototype tracking hospital staff using iPhone gyroscope readings and building layout data.
- Supported an undergraduate course through grading, labs, and office hours; maintained and ported the VSO Doves application to Heroku.
Freewave Tech Solutions
2013 – 2014Mumbai, India
Software Developer
- Owned database and feature design for YoWoTo.com, a parenting advice platform — Rails backend with keyword and property-based content search via pg_search.
- Shipped key engagement UX — infinite-scroll home feed, post ratings, and a unified listing page across content types.
Indiavidual (via Neosoft Technologies)
2013Mumbai, India
Ruby on Rails Developer
- Enhanced Embibe.com's quiz-authoring portal used by teachers to build the question bank — rich academic content including math equations, diagrams, and charts.
- Refactored and optimized a slow "next question" engine with complex adaptive selection logic for choosing each student's optimal next quiz question.
Allerin Tech
2011 – 2013Navi Mumbai, India
Ruby on Rails Developer
- Built CCYware, a currency conversion platform with a per-organization Oracle multi-tenancy model and Salesforce integration for customer and transaction sync.
- Built Golf2Compete social features including score sharing and a Facebook-style player wall backed by MongoDB.