Professional Experience
A chronological overview of my professional journey in engineering leadership and AI development.
Senior Engineering Manager, AI Retrieval - Asana
July 2022 - Present
Currently leading Asana's AI Retrieval team, focusing on building innovative AI solutions that transform how teams collaborate. Responsible for developing and scaling a platform that powers several of Asana's AI features while managing multiple teams of engineers.
- Led development of Asana's cutting-edge RAG platform from prototype to production, enabling AI systems to retrieve contextual information across entire workspaces.
- Expanded RAG platform from a single-feature product to a multi-product framework powering four distinct features, resulting in a 15x increase in system traffic while maintaining performance and reliability.
- Developed agentic input context management techniques that improved performance (TTFT) by 24% while improving quality on our eval suite (92% → 96% pass rate) and reducing our LLM budget by 32%.
- Established and lead Asana's LLM testing & evaluation program while fostering strategic partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI.
Senior Engineering Manager, Strategic Integrations - Asana
July 2021 - July 2022
Led teams building Asana's integrations with third-party tools, including high-profile projects with multiple executive escalations.
- Managed an internal team of 8 engineers, delivering Asana-Jira data sync beta and GA (our first bidirectional sync integration) on schedule, driving estimated $11M in annual recurring revenue.
- Led prototype development and rollout of a new integrations architecture that improved development speed by 30%.
- Managed a contracting team with 7 indirect reports and responsibility for $1M+ budget, dramatically improving performance of key integrations.
Engineering Manager, Enterprise - Asana
October 2019 - July 2021
Built and led engineering teams in Asana's Enterprise group, developing critical features for the company's largest customers.
- Delivered complex reforms to Asana's administrative model to support enterprise needs.
- Led engineering-wide initiative to predict and remediate technical scaling risks across 36 teams when Asana's largest customer experienced exponential growth.
- Maintained strong relationships with cross-functional partners, including Sales and Customer Success, personally helping unblock multiple enterprise deals.
Technical Lead, Senior Engineer, & Engineering Manager - Shift
June 2015 - September 2019
Joined Shift as an early engineer (employee #9) and grew to become Engineering Manager, helping scale the company's engineering organization during a period of rapid growth. Led development of critical systems that powered the company's automotive marketplace.
- Conceptualized and built MVPs for multiple 0-1 products that became core parts of Shift's business operations, including appointment scheduling and vehicle inspection systems.
- Built a machine learning recommendation system for Shift's merchandising platform that increased the primary conversion metric by more than 25%.
- Architected a bit vector-based algorithm that provided a 1000x performance improvement (7s → 7ms) for the platform's critical filtering and sorting operations.
Director, Digital - Weber Shandwick
2009 - 2015
Directed digital strategy and campaigns for one of the world's largest communications firms, working with major technology and public affairs clients across the Washington DC and San Francisco offices. Led teams developing innovative digital solutions for complex business and policy challenges.
WhiteHouse.gov - Obama-Biden Transition Project
January 2009
Contributed to the historic digital initiatives during the presidential transition. Helped develop and implement digital strategies for the incoming administration's online presence during this pivotal moment in U.S. government's digital transformation.
Education
Brown University
B.A., Public Policy & American Institutions
2005 - 2009
Bachelor's degree with focus on policy analysis and institutional structures.
The London School of Economics
General Course Full Year Study Abroad
2007 - 2008
Year-long study abroad program at one of the world's leading social science institutions.