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• Developed and deployed multiple core front-end tools for full suite of management (items, business locations, kitchen configurations, etc), both internal and external facing in React with typescript.• Expanded and maintained numerous backend JVM services handling T0 core business needs.• Iterated and codified engineering interview pipeline with small team; everything from developing/polishing whitelisted interview prompts to crafting rubrics and recruiter-tech pipeline with an aim towards gaining consistency, mitigating unconscious bias, and raising the general tech bar. • Personally conducted 100+ interviews toward growing from fewer than 20 engineers to +100.• On occasion, executed in-person shifts at dark kitchen front-of-house to better understand customer needs to better tailor our tech roadmap.

• Developed and maintained backend Java services for 100+ million MAU, hosted and deployed in 20+ data-centers worldwide.• Architected and implemented dozens of features in existing back-end services to add new capabilities to League of Legends meta-game loop (Missions, Clubs, rewards, player account leveling, onboarding, seasonal game modes, unreleased game modes)• Designed, developed, and maintained a fully documented custom DSL via Antlr4 for authoring League of Legends 'Mission' content; it improved evaluation speed by ~1,500x over existing evaluation method and enabled static evaluation of authored mission content as well as all but eliminated production issues with incorrectly authored missions.• Built front-end features in Ember, raw JS, CSS, handlebars, and a smattering of other FE libraries. Additionally built out client-side data wrangling code in C++.

• Lead Android engineer responsible for architecting and implementing a reusable Android SDK to provide customizable, in-app, on-device vehicle navigation experience for Uber apps.• Translated design specs for complex UI animations, 3D camera choreography, and map-engine components into functional, tested code.• Coordinate with numerous teams on a regular basis to coalesce and prioritize feature needs, bug reports, sdk integrations, and feature roadmaps• Managed 3rd-year university intern during 16 week internship across backend and mobile projects.

• Co-developed Square’s cloud-based, cross-platform, multi-device, connectivity-durable syncing platform, Open Tickets, which backs tens-of-thousands of active businesses’ bar tabs, table seating, lay-away, and more.• Led small team of developers to design, scope, and implement highly extensible system for printing to a myriad of 3rd-party hardware printers over USB and wifi. Created an easy-to-use bitmap creation pipeline, a durable db-backed queue, and a robust error and re-enqueueing system, as well as user-facing UI.• Led small team of developers to create a targeted, highly-polished standalone Android application for specific business verticals. Continually coordinated with remote design team and translated iterative/draft specs into highly functioning software on short timelines.• Co-developed the transition of Square Register from a mobile-only experience to a responsive app with first-class support for many dimension-classes of tablets and phones.• Owned overall presentation of Square Register app; the implementation of themeing, custom widgets, animations, and consistency, as well as driving multiple app-wide (~280 screen) visual refreshes.• Designed, scoped, and created standalone app for efficiently testing phones’ compatibility with Square hardware.

• Co-developed curriculum and taught many class sessions on complex parametric 3D scripting• Assisted students with design/programming on open-ended projects for graduate-level design studios

• Created tailored web content on Drupal website for student-run, FCC licensed television station• Took initiative to design, code, pitch, and launch Android app for mobile viewing of TSTV content

• Assisted in producing a weekly hour-long television show at FCC-licensed Texas Student Television• Wrote, filmed, edited, and served as on-camera talent for live and taped television segments• Designed all the graphical media for the show and created a dynamic website for show’s content• Covered Game Developer’s Conference Online (formerly GDC Austin) in 2009 and 2010 for VGHL

• Designed and coded custom scripts to model complex surfacing patterns with rational output for fabrication.• Script was used to fabricate a permanent art installation for Austin Art in Public Places program for the City of Austin

• Created cutting-edge presentation material for new mobile concepts utilizing motion graphics

• Organized gaming competitions and guided attendees on new interactive hardware and software

• Formed a sole proprietorship for web and mobile design and development• Independently designed and developed rstarcraft.com with over 4,300 registered accounts• Produced and consulted on multiple websites for a variety of clients

• Designed and coded company websites both solo and on small team• Produced still and animated models/renders of biofuel power plants for multimillion dollar projects

Coded VB.net programs solo and on small teams for genetics research applications