Google
San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer — Search Team / Merchant Content & Discovery Team
06/2022 – 05/2025
- Developed a Merchant Targeting Engine API to provide Google surfaces (Search, Gmail, Ads) with real-time access to comprehensive merchant information (type, attributes, categories). Leveraged high-availability storage and MapReduce pipelines to process data from across Google into structured summaries served to search and consumer surfaces. Led to an increased successful onboarding rate for merchants of 22% over 2 years.
- Built a service for direct merchant data synchronization between Google Shopping and 3rd-party ecommerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce). Developed a modular scraping agent to identify and categorize ecommerce stores, and an API initiating secure 3P and Google OAuth flows for seamless authentication and data sync. Increased successful onboarding rate of 3P Merchants from 12% to 44%.
- Revamped the “hidden gem” ranking component within Google Search, integrating new signals to surface high-quality, lesser-known merchants for shopping queries; the quality module was redesigned and retrained in collaboration with Search stakeholders. Contributed to 46% of a top-level Google OKR by diversifying search results.
- Spearheaded “New Arrivals”, a product detection system, tagging products sold on Google as New Arrival, Trending, or Promotion with no merchant action. Daily rolling MapReduce pipelines and fuzzy matching over SKUs, categories, and attributes decide when two listings are the same product. Led end to end, from spotting the unused product data to launch; increased new-product discovery by 18%.
- Served as a Java Readability Mentor: conducted code reviews, interviewed prospective candidates, ran monthly team retrospectives, and mentored interns and junior engineers.