Career break

Vietnam

Taking a career break following six years leading ML engineering and safety systems at Grab.

Principal Engineer, Safety & Content Moderation

Grab

• Designed and led a multimodal, multi-tier content moderation engine using tuned LLMs and AI at scale, supporting image, text, and video across millions of daily transactions.
• Partnered across Product, Risk, and Operations to build user-facing safety features, fraud detection systems, and abuse prevention protocols.
• Architected Grab’s React eKYC experience with ML-based facial recognition, modular case management, and distributed microservices.
• Built and mentored a high-performing engineering team; owned the vertical’s roadmap, OKRs, and hiring.

Tech Lead, Software Engineering

Yelp Ads

• Re-architected the ad bidding engine for granular targeting without adding latency, increasing campaign precision.
• Designed a generalized campaign framework to improve filtering and scalability across the ad marketplace.
• Led a cross-organization keyword targeting project that expanded ad delivery inventory for growth business categories.
• Presented long-term ad platform initiatives across Yelp’s global offices.

Team Lead, Ruby on Rails

Captrav

• Led development of a Rails MVP that parsed and analyzed millions of dollars in travel invoices from enterprise email and PDF attachments.
• Designed an information extraction and indexing pipeline for more than 500,000 travel-technology emails.
• Migrated batch jobs to AWS Lambda, reducing email processing time from four hours to 20 minutes.

Senior Software Engineer

Zugata

Built recommendation-driven mass email systems for feedback requests at an HR technology startup that raised $10 million and was acquired by Culture Amp.

Senior Software Engineer

Spark Start

Delivered full-stack Ruby on Rails applications that brought early-stage business ideas to life.

Software Engineer

Ticket Alternative

Developed full-stack Ruby on Rails applications for a ticketing platform that sold more than 500,000 tickets.

Software Engineer

CareerBuilder

Built C# and ASP.NET systems for knowledge discovery and indexing across 1.5 million applicant résumés per month.