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

Azure CXP Software Engineer — Data/Backend

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.

  • Migrated legacy Scala logic to PySpark in Azure Synapse, rewriting 20+ notebooks and data pipelines for Fortune 500 consumption and billing analytics.
  • Reduced runtime of 3 production Spark pipelines by 75% by optimizing joins, partitioning, cluster scaling, and Managed Identity authentication.
  • Built ETL workflows using Cosmos DB, Cosmos SCOPE, and Kusto/KQL to ingest, validate, and onboard 80+ telemetry metrics.
  • Owned and enhanced 150+ Playwright E2E tests across Product, Consumption, and Quality areas for an Azure Usage dashboard.
PythonPySparkAzure SynapseAzure Data FactoryCosmos DBKusto/KQLPlaywrightTypeScriptReactC#Azure DevOps

02

Xbox Software Engineer — Manufacturing Tests

Microsoft · Redmond, WA

March 2022 – September 2023

Developed reliability and system validation test suites for next-generation Xbox consoles across hardware, OS, networking, and test infrastructure.

  • Developed and maintained multi-day reliability test suites in C# and C++ for Xbox console validation across global lab environments.
  • Debugged long-running test failures involving memory leaks, port exhaustion, firmware, OS, networking, and test infrastructure.
  • Automated Xbox test log extraction to Excel, reducing manual data entry for lab technicians.
  • Resolved 120+ CodeQL issues across 4 production repositories, improving code quality, security, and maintainability.
  • Refactored 41 legacy C# projects and migrated pre-built NuGet packages to reduce main repo build time by 6 minutes.
C#C++.NET FrameworkPowerShellPythonCodeQLAzure DevOpsKustoXAMLScrum

03

Xbox Software Engineer Intern — Full Stack

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 to extract and summarize Cortana speech feature usage, helping developers identify high-impact features for the Xbox One Cortana release.
  • Built OnePulse dashboard metric tiles in C# to visualize Cortana usage trends for engineering teams.
  • Implemented an ASP.NET web dashboard to aggregate Cortana metrics and improve access to usage insights.
ASP.NETC#Cosmos SCOPESQL ServerU-SQLJavaScriptjQueryHTMLCSSBootstrap

04

Co-Teacher — C#

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