Experience
Upstart
Jul 2022 – Present
Principal Software Engineer - Capital Marketplace
- Responsible for creating the technical roadmap of Upstart's next-gen multi-product Capital Platform enabling $1 Billion in loan sales (45% balance sheet reduction) to investors in 2025Q4.
- Influenced cross-functional VP-level leadership and 50+ engineers across 10 teams to adopt ClickHouse as the backbone of Upstart's next-generation external reporting system, supporting multi-billion dollar investor contracts with accurate, real-time compliant data.
- Achieved a 66% reduction in infrastructure costs and improved reporting performance by 132×—cutting report generation time from 10 hours to 5 minutes for major Capital Providers.
- Reduced p100 response times of a public API by 80%—from 30 seconds to 6 seconds—on a 8 billion row dataset by migrating to ClickHouse and designing an optimized schema tailored for analytical queries.
- Architected real-time data pipelines for accurate point-in-time compliant financial reporting, and served as lead architect on a cross-functional distributed forecasting system that processes a month's worth of loan data in hours, enabling optimization of AI models, configurations, and business strategies to boost revenue and loan volume.
- Delivered performance improvements reducing top-of-funnel latency by over 50%, including cutting applicant pricing time from 6 seconds to 300 milliseconds.
- Mentored 15+ engineers through regular 1:1s, architecture reviews, performance evaluations, and cross-org talks, driving growth, collaboration, and technical excellence.