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I am currently working at Argo AI, leading the machine learning platform team. This platform is used by the autonomy teams to build the various machine learning models that enable our vehicles to drive safely and confidently. In the past, as the first full time engineer on the analytics platform team at Argo AI, I laid the foundational building blocks of the analytics platform that is now used throughout the company to gain insights on system performance at all levels of the autonomy stack, drive key decisions by stakeholders, deliver trusted numbers for regulatory reporting, and used for day-to-day operational purposes.
Previous work includes realtime distributed analytical systems that are used in production at multiple companies. If you have checked who viewed your profile or ran an ad campaign on Linkedin, you have used code that I wrote.
I am passionate about writing robust, maintainable and soundly designed software that solves real problems. As a developer, I am able to bridge the communications gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders. I have worked on various projects that involve data visualization, large scale data processing, distributed computing, database internals, distributed consensus, neural networks, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, image processing, internationalization, robotics, embedded software and firmware, performance tuning on the JVM and distributed systems, among other things. 
Hey there! I'm a Software Engineer at YouTube (Google) on the Commerce User Experiences team, helping drive $14B+ in annual revenue by building seamless billing and checkout experiences for YouTube's paid products, serving 2B+ MAUs across multiple surfaces on web and mobile devices.
Prior to YouTube, I worked on the Analytics, Logging, and Experimentation team at Google. There, I worked on native Android libraries and data pipelines for surfacing core system health metrics for 1st party Google mobile apps (Maps, Search, Photos, Gmail, Drive, etc.) at petabyte scale, driving Google-wide improvements.
As a graduate of University of Waterloo's prestigious Software Engineering program, I gathered a wealth of experience throughout my six co-ops at companies such as Snap, Yahoo, and CoreLogic.
Outside of tech, I'm an active performing and recording jazz/lofi/funk/R&B saxophonist in the SF Bay Area, with 100k+ streams on music platforms:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4BtpG8zMdLLQJZ6W5jKjex?si=zEUN3pJfSvGMP8WMPNIQHA
Reach me at chaiv@google.com. 
