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          A weekend project that turned into a full workshop build - 
          It started as a weekend project (of course) where I wanted to free up space in my garage workshop because there were too many things in there. I initially proposed to my girlfriend that we could just get a costco shed and put it up on the side of the...
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          Co-Architected, developed and was the tech lead for the Custom Attributes team that enabled third-party and first-party teams to add custom attributes across many of Square Offerings.

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          Helped implement and lead development efforts of a robotic arm workcell. Implemented generalized work APIs using now open-source IDL Smithy that could be reused across different robotic workcell types. Designed and implemented an orchestrator that used these APIs and work models to orchestrate multiple robotic workcells to automate a process....
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          Worked on the core team that launched the marketplace appstore to host third-party (3P) developed apps for Amazon 3P sellers.
Designed and led a team of 4 engineers to implement seller facing features around managing seller-developer
authorizations and applications, while taking into account and mitigating security threats.

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        <title>Aug 2015 - Feburary 2018</title>
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          Designed and implemented an asynchronous workflow system for batch processing large amounts of data using EMR and displaying precomputed reports. Maintained and improved operations for a 140+ node Hadoop cluster we managed. Handled various critical customer facing issues while on-call. Led bottom-up initiatives around cost reduction. Mentored other engineers and...
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        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Aug 2015 - Feburary 2018</title>
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          Defended Masters Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Juan Cockburn: A Switched System Identification Approach to Spindle Modeling: Thesis Link

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        <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2014 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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