During summer 2017, I joined PayPal’s Next-Gen Commerce (NGC) Team. It’s an amazing team working on innovative products. Internally it’s known as one of the special projects team. I was grateful I could work on that team and had to learn from great mentors like Greg, Shilpa, and Dereck. I was working there as a software engineering intern. I had […]
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Yahoo Doppler
During summer 2016, I joined Yahoo’s Datacenter team. I worked on a project named Doppler. It’s an internal tool that monitors the resources usage of every running instances in Yahoo’s datacenter worldwide. Doppler can measure the resources usage such as RAM, CPU, Namespaces, etc. It also shows the total cost of ownership of each running projects in $US. In this […]
The Hacker Culture
This short piece is about a reminiscent of my stays in California. In Silicon Valley to be precise. And how unique of a culture it has, to be the center of the global tech industry. It forever changed my view in life and business. The year was 2014. I just came to the states right after I finished high school. […]
Why I Pursue Computer Science
Some say life is a journey. And I have to say, I’ve been privileged to work with very smart and ambitious people during my journey so far. I met these people at different places: UIUC, PayPal, Silicon Valley, LA, Chicago, etc. And they also came from different places: USA, Iran, China, Germany, etc. Everybody has a name, everybody has a […]