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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Us

Building Ashby, the all-in-one recruiting product that consolidates your ATS, CRM, Scheduling, and Analytics into a single solution – all with best in breed functionality and seamless UX.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

PlanGrid is a mobile-first software solution for running construction projects.I worked on improving construction productivity through technology.2018 Director of Engineering:- Lead the Field and Platform groups (~ 25 folks).- Hired 16 engineers since taking on a management role, most senior, many through personal network & outreach.- Contributed to PlanGrid's long term product strategy.- Drove reorganization of engineering into feature teams & platform teams that can deliver on product strategy.- Shaped PlanGrid's engineering culture through a series of initiatives (open source contributions, tech talks, 20% time for working on platform improvements, redefinition of career ladder & compensation bands).2016-2018 Engineering Manager:- Lead the iOS team as well as cross-functional product engineering teams.- Built one of the strongest iOS engineering teams in the SF Bay Area, which is widely recognized in the iOS community.- Helped significantly increase the amount of product initiatives my teams delivered.2015-2016 Engineer & iOS Lead:- Lead iOS engineering efforts. - Shipped a large refactor project that established new best practices for feature development (across networking/sync, persistence, UI development).- Also significantly improved build and test tooling as well as release cadence.

San Francisco, California, Us

Make School is a college designed for the 21st century. I worked on bringing more folks into Software Engineering roles.- Helped a Y Combinator company grow from a team of 5 to a team of 20. - Built & taught software engineering curriculum that placed students at companies like Pandora and Snapchat.- Built various product features (using Ruby on Rails), including a new content management system based on GitHub.- Supported in a variety of different fields: Marketing, Hiring, Corporate Partnerships...

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, De

Lecturer for the Software Engineering I course (intro to object-oriented software development in Java). Supervisor of multiple student research projects.

Pliezhausen, Baden-Württemberg, De

I worked on helping German enterprises adopt mobile solutions. I spent most of my time on a mobile product that helped improve efficiency of running retail stores.2012 - 2013 Software Engineer & Project Lead:- Led a 5 person project team developing a mobile enterprise solution for LIDL one of the largest supermarket chains in Germany. - Planned new release cycles and was main point of contact for the client. Introduced a thorough technical documentation & testing process into the project - drastically reducing the defect count - Developed the iOS client and lead the technical discussion of the overall architecture.2011 - 2012 Software Engineer:- I worked on a total of 6 different iOS projects and was the technical project lead of an enterprise software project. - I built two internal libraries, an XML Parser and a Flow Layout Management System that were used throughout various projects.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

I had 5 different internship roles during my 3 years of study. I gained experience in enterprise software sales, consulting, embedded systems, graphics programming and web development.