I built GTL Learn, an education-platform (and accompanying Android app) for the incarcerated population that GTL (now known as ViaPath) serves.With GTL Learn, I replaced three unmaintained, overlapping proprietary education services with a single stable platform.I built GTL Learn on of a modified version of an open-source education framework Kolibri -- providing all of the benefits of a mature, open-source project, namely a robust community and up-to-date documentation.Also, on the app-side, I built the Android app along with others on the Android team on a unified code-base that allowed us to quickly build other "media consumption" apps (the music player, movie viewer, etc.)I also lent my experience with Jenkins to replace a spaghetti-mess with a simple CI/CD system using GitLab, with successful builds stored in Artifactory.

Member of the EmuSim team for mobile (iOS/Android). EmuSim's wide-ranging duties are a bit hard to briefly summarize, but essentially EmuSim is a DevOps team that implements, optimizes and supports the infrastructure for on-demand Appium sessions running in Emulators and Simulators on Mac and Linux machines. Hired for my unique mix of in-depth iOS/MacOS experience combined with my DevOps experience (C.I./C.D., automation).

SMART Alec (https://www.smartalec.biz/)SMART Alec is a consumer-focused disk monitoring utility that I built for OWC to use as a marketing and customer lead generation tool. The 1.0 version is available currently via the SMART Alec website, and will be available in both an app store and direct-download version. The direct-download version includes integration with a driver that provides SMART monitoring for USB and firewire devices, which otherwise do not report SMART data.Working with a designer, I wrote all of the code for the 1.0 version of SMART Alec in Objective-C, with integration of existing C++ libraries from SoftRAID, a software RAID product OWC produces.SMART Alec utilitizes both the SMART data polled from the disk, as well as proprietary rules-based disk failure predictions to provide the user with simple, actionable alerts when drive health declines or is predicted to decline. Users then have the option of interacting with OWC's support team for more help, or may purchase replacement disks for their particular machine in the event of a failure.As the sole developer, I also built out a set of shell scripts the various build products of SMART Alec (Direct Download w/ SMART driver, App Store without, Debug/Release/Testing targets).Additionally SMART Alec contains a command line utility used for scriptable access to the detection engine, and to allow for script-based testing.Testing of the GUI and the detection engine was accessible via the command line utility within SMART Alec and a set of hidden menu items in the Debug version. Objective-C/Objective-C++, C++, CocoaBuild and testing via shell scripts

BITTORRENT BLEEP (http://www.bleep.pm)Bleep is a cross-platform chat/VoIP platform offering a level of privacy not available elsewhere. Specifically, it allows users to communicate without anyone (BitTorrent, governments, hackers) able to snoop on them. The contents of calls and texts are encrypted end-to-end and occur directly between Bleep users. But most importantly, the metadata (identities, locations, duration) is also untraceable.• Solely responsible for the development of the Bleep clients for Mac and iOS, written in Objective-C• Developed the cross-platform libcommunicator library from conception to it's ultimate use as the communications engine for Bleep. Written in C++/boost, libsodium for encryption, SIP/RDP for the VoIP/chat protocols, UPnP w/ libupnp, NAT-PMP w/ libnatpmp• Contributed code to all four native clients: Mac/iOS (Obj-C/Cocoa), Windows (C#/XAML) and Android (Java/Android SDK)• Helped develop Bleep's Node relay/registration servers, managed their infrastructure in AWS• Created and managed build/continuous integration/automated release deployment systems in Jenkins• Wrote article on how we offer metadata protection, which was quoted in articles on TechCrunch, IEEE Spectrum, PC/Info World, Tom's Hardware• Gave a tech talk to IBM's R&D team at IBM's Almaden Research facilityBITTORRENT NOW (http://now.bt.co)BitTorrent Now is a publishing and distribution platform for artists, as well as a set of apps to consume artists' content. Any artist can publish their music or film content as freely available, or set a price point from free, to pay-what-you-want, to any price they would like to set. BitTorrent Now was designed with artist and fans in mind. The idea is to give artists back the power over their content, and give fans the opportunity to directly support the creators they love.• Responsibile for BT Now on iOS/tvOS, written in Swift• Created&managed build/continuous integration/automated release deployment via Jenkins/bash scripts

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS/EMBEDDED DEVICES TEAM (http://www.bittorrent.com/devices)The C.E. team worked with set-top box, NAS and TV manufacturers to port and integrate BitTorrent with the partner's firmware.• Developed and managed the build systems for array of devices, chipsets, and OEM customizations.• Wrote automated tests in python within PyUnit test framework.• Set up automation lab where participating partner devices would have incremental builds deployed, tests run on them, and test results distributed back to relevant dev team members.• Python and Bash scripting for automation lab glue, deploying builds to lab devices, collating and distributing test results• Javascript/Web and Android skills (Handlebars.js, CoffeeScript, CSS/HTML), for diagnosing/debugging issues with BitTorrent Download product.SOSHARE TEAM (http://soshare.it)SoShare allowed users to easily send and receive files up to a terabyte in size via a web application.• Wrote Selenium tests in python to exercise the final SoShare UI.

As a Dev-QA Engineer, I am responsible for acceptance testing all new features and all new releases. This involves interviewing the development and product management team to get a complete picture of each new feature or release, from both a high level and very technical level to develop new test cases. I am primarily responsible for the ZoneAlarm line of products, which is Check Point's consumer product line.As we are a security company, my testing includes security testing (such as fuzz testing, buffer overflow attacks, service/driver replacement attacks), observing and verifying client-server communication for server-delivered content, validating the latest anti-virus and browser security components against legacy and zero day threats, as well as encryption testing, UI testing, localization validation and installer/uninstaller testing. The focus is to never release any product with a regression in any area of security, while constantly improving both the user experience and the level of security.As we work as a small team, I also oversee and run the build machines for the nightly builds, am responsible for communicating the test cases and test plan for new releases to the global QA organization in Israel and Minsk, as well as collecting the data and binaries to post every beta of releases close to their GA date.

Responsible for setting up and maintaining a lab of eleven competitor's enterprise security products to Check Point's own Endpoint Security solution. I was responsible for configuring each server to its initial installed state on a single domain with one pre-configured client endpoint.Each server had a dedicated physical box, and the clients for all eleven servers were set up in virtual machines run on a single machine. This way, the Enterprise development team could simulate as many Endpoint connections as needed simply by cloning the client VMs. Once the lab was set up, I used Norton Ghost to create complete backups of the lab so that it could be restored in a matter of minutes. When requested, I explored and produced "tear-down" presentations to the enterprise team describing how the competitor's product worked, what limitations it had, how easy the install/deployment process was, and how it compared to our own product in these areas.

Worked on the UI team creating a Java-based application that viewers of nbcolympics.com used to view live, real-time coverage of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.In addition to simple scoreboards, the application displayed live telemetry data from the athletes, including heartrate, average stride, and other incredibly detailed data not available via NBC's television coverage.

Developed an application in C++ that provided SoftRAID customers with product registration via the Internet. Also wrote disk driver stress-testing tools in C and C++.Additionally, I created applications in C used to install and update existing SoftRAID products.As the only QA team member, I tested RAID drivers against matrices of all supported versions of the Macintosh OS.Also handled daily updates of the company web site, as well as maintenance of company email and ftp systems.

Wrote a Java based game for advertising purposes. Also, created a Javascript based web developer's palette selection tool as another fun toy for our website.