Lyft Media and Business Platforms
New York City, NY
- Project lead for integrating programmatic advertising via Microsoft Monetize. Designed
architecture to
support a direct integration via OpenRTB with an ad mediation layer between direct sold inventory
and
other demand partners. Projected to bring $42M in ad revenue by 2027 through PMP deals and open
exchange
advertising.
- Project lead for supporting credit card pre-authorization of Lyft Business rides. Drove buy-in and
alignment across engineering, product and leadership. Designed a scalable solution which has
processed
over 1.5M rides. Achieved a 50% debt rate reduction equivalent to $3M in annual post marketing
margin.
- 1st Place Winner in 2025 Lyft Hackathon. Conceptualized and implemented a prototype for a "Round
Trips"
feature within the Lyft App. Recognized for highest level of completion, polish and immediate
implementability
with minimal additional development
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Led full stack architectural overhaul which significantly reduced latency for degraded endpoints
that
impacted
major customers. Replicated multiple sources of truth from DynamoDB to Elasticsearch to improve
filtering
and
querying operations. Observed a 90% reduction in P99 latency across multiple endpoints (5s → 300ms)
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Created an automatic fraud deactivation pipeline using an ETL DAG job that detects high fraud
signals
like
chargeback rate, failed charges and spend velocity. Autonomously deactivated >12K fraudulent
organizations
Lyft Business Commerce
San Francisco, CA
- Built an application that has processed >$10M in transaction volume that streamlined the workflow
for
support agents by automating credit card charges for monthly invoices
Capital One Automotive
Plano, TX
- Deployed automated workflow to translate thousands of english condition-action statements into a
rule
engine