Google Chrome (2010-present)

• Focused on WebKit quality and reliability; fastest external contributor to become a WebKit reviewer.
• Improved and created infrastructure for the layout test regression-catching system.
• Made several JavaScript events asynchronous (for performance and security), improved spec compliance of HTML5 history and canvas features.
• Part of WebKit gardener rotation and other grungy work.

Google Reader (2005-2010)

• Founding member of the team, and frontend tech lead since 2006.
• Primary implementor of the redesigned user interface that brought Reader widespread praise.
• Designed, implemented and maintained Reader's iGoogle gadget and the trends feature.
• Co-designed and implemented the first friends functionality in Reader, which increased sharing by 25%.
• Implemented several "engineer productivity" features (automatic recompilation of JavaScript, templates and CSS in development, automatic flagging of duplicate RPCs, logging of RPCs per HTTP request).
• Ported Reader to the Closure Library and Closure Compiler and contributed to both.
• Implemented a reskinned user interface that later became the standard for other Google apps.
• Performed and released data analyses of interest to developers and aided several third-party developers.
• Implemented part of PubSubHubbub support for Reader shared items.
• Co-designed and implemented Reader integration with Buzz comments.
• Implemented backend improvements that reduced CPU usage and storage layer lookups by 50%.
• Implemented frontend and UI performance improvements that reduced startup time by 45%. Created dashboard and improved tracking of performance issues.

AdWords Frontend (2004-2005)

• Joined Notification Center (feature that allows customer representatives to receive account alerts) halfway through development. Closed 150 bugs (roughly half in a 4 week period leading up to the initial launch).
• Tracked down several performance issues, implemented monitoring dashboard.
• Co-designed and implemented the external version of the Notification Center described above (launched as Account Snapshot), one of the first AJAX-y user-facing features in the AdWords frontend.
• Part of build cop rotation for the ads frontend (spanning several timezones and 100 engineers).

• Analyzed performance impact of VMotion, a key feature of VMware VirtualCenter, a brand-new product.
• Investigated performance issues of server component of VirtualCenter.

• Developed an add-in for Visual C++ .NET that allowed Javadoc-like functionality (documentation alongside the codebase, with browsable and searchable output formats).
• Created three tools using ASP.NET and C# to help manage configuration files.

• Automated broadcast site creation process using Perl.
• Updated a legacy campus map system to have a new interface and administration system.
• Created an email-based customizable subscription system for notifications.

• Modified layout generation system using MySQL and server-side Java.
• Extended publishing system to support the daily email delivery.
• Designed online presence of The Prince Magazine, a weekly feature.

• Launched this personal software label - conceived and executed all aspects of product development.
• Successfully transitioned flagship program, Iconographer, to Mac OS X.
• Products have been favorably reviewed in MacAddict, MacWorld and several other magazines.