DoorDash

I joined DoorDash in August 2016 as employee #20 and spent six years helping build and scale the platform through its hypergrowth phase, international expansion, and December 2020 IPO.

Sole Engineer on the Dasher App

Before Drive, I was the only engineer building the Dasher courier app for a meaningful stretch. Every feature in the early Dasher experience — and every bug — was mine.

Founding Engineer on Drive

My biggest contribution was as a founding engineer on DoorDash Drive—the white-label delivery platform that lets any business offer delivery without building their own logistics. I was involved from the earliest prototypes through its launch as a core business line. By 2017, Drive was driving 25% of company revenue.

I hold US Patent No. 10,395,208 for beacon tracking — Bluetooth-beacon-based location event tracking that improved courier location accuracy on the Drive delivery platform.

Automated Refund Decisioning

I led the team that built DoorDash's automated refund decisioning system. This system could analyze customer issues and automatically determine appropriate refunds, reducing the need for human agents while improving both response times and accuracy. This work saved the company an estimated $20M annually in support costs.

International Expansion

I worked on DoorDash's international launch in Australia, adapting our systems to local regulatory and operational requirements. I also mentored the team that built the tax system supporting DoorDash's expansion into Germany.

The Experience

DoorDash during hypergrowth was an incredible learning environment. I worked across the entire stack—from consumer apps to driver tools to merchant dashboards to backend infrastructure. The pace was relentless, but the problems were genuinely hard and the impact was tangible.

I left in March 2022 to start building my own companies, but the lessons from those six years—about scaling, about shipping fast, about building for real users—inform everything I do today.