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Phoenix, Az, Us

Paris, Fr

Paris, Fr

San Francisco, California, Us

Developed a collection of mobile analytics frameworks with autocaptured events and retroactive analytics, primarily targeting iOS and React Native.- Lead a team of engineers from a technical perspective, providing technical guidance, architectural direction, and SDK ownership expertise.- Lead and delivered a major rewrite of our SDKs, with a focus on consistent behavior and modular design leading to lower development efforts and a larger addressable market.- Provided critical support for customer issues with little to no debugging information, increasing customer satisfaction, improving the product and documentation, and supporting sales.- Maintained the mobile CI infrastructure.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed the flagship Stack Overflow Q&A web application, primarily for the public platform but also in collaboration with the paid private Q&A product teams.- Lead testing efforts, developing the team’s testing process and best practices for both manual and automated testing, also mentoring and pairing with developers to increase adoption.- Supported the launch of our paid product by developing and automated security test suite.- Lead accessibility efforts within team and across the product, both focusing on developing/retrofitting accessibility into the UI as well as championing accessibility through the code review process.- Lead efforts to improve the quality and reliability of our frontend code, developing and migrating code to TypeScript and shifting from brittle jQuery code to clearly designed MVC code with StimulusJS.- Collaborated with design and product leads early in the project cycle to ensure technical complexities were understood and accounted for in user stories, allowing the team to prioritized developer hours where it would be most impactful.- Mentored and collaborated with junior developers, helping them navigate a complex codebase and confidently deliver safe, reliable code.- Developed a range of features designed to improve the stickiness of our product and drive desired user behavior.- Developed efficient database structures and queries for both batch jobs and hot path realtime page rendering.

New York, Ny, Us

Worked both independently and on a small team to develop and maintain the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange iOS apps.- Managed the complete release cycle for the apps, from feature selection and prioritization to beta testing and App Store delivery.- Owned continuous integration processes.- Worked with community to solicit and validate new features and bugs.- Implemented major changes in the codebase to support the ever-evolving line of iOS devices, features, and idioms. Most notably, having launch day support for iPad split screen thanks to diligent support for existing iPhone and iPad screen sizes and orientations.- Developed server API to enable new features in the apps.- Rearchitected a large monolithic app into two apps sharing reusable frameworks.- Used Hopper, swizzling, and other debugging techniques to identify and work around bugs and limitations in system frameworks.