Colin Vale Email & Phone Number

US

I'm taking at least a year to travel around the United States and learn more about this enigmatic country I call home. Not seeking employment. Please refrain from contacting until April 2019.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Frontend Engineer on the Lyft Business and Driver Acquisition teams
• Implemented dozens of experiments on the driver signup page which cumulatively increased conversion by 7%
• Spearheaded the creation of a Spanish language sign up page which improved spanish conversions by 8%
• Made major improvements to the Events suite of features, enabling cancellation and multiple location selection
• Created an internal management view of long-running scheduled jobs to improve debugging and visibility

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led design and implementation of multiple core features including Bulk Upload and Twitter ads creation UI
• Expanded the core platform to include integration with Twitter Ads API (on top of Facebook and AdWords)
• Managed remote team members in Bosnia to accelerate development. Worked with remote QA in India
• Worked in an Agile Scrum environment to effectively manage work with daily standups and 2-week sprints
• Integrated AngularJS to provide custom functionality

Reston, VA, US

• Streamlined dynamic stress modelling to one command by designing a responsive bash script
• Convinced team to allow me to use Python for visualizations of terabytes of data (instead of Fortran)
• Created concise visualizations of 6 dimensions of data using Numpy and MatPlotLib (i.e. solved hard problem)
• Located maximum stresses across the trimaran under various conditions (speed, heading, sea state)
• Influenced design decisions of Naval Architects and Engineers with impressive data processing and plotting

Laurel, Maryland, US

• Interfaced a board-level altimeter into existing Java software through a listener and interface
• Designed a floor detection algorithm in Java using the data acquired from the altimeter
• Tested and revised the algorithm repeatedly to account for unforeseen variables such as temperature
• Improved the algorithm during the winter and made it much more flexible and ten times more efficient

• Programmed a Facebook game out of an existing top-selling board game
• Ported thousands of trivia questions into mySQL and built PHP framework to access data
• Developed complex logic and UX of moving multiple game pieces with multiple people in a session
• Integrated sliding/dragging buttons, timing mechanisms, and loading screens into game using jQuery UI

Monrovia, California, US

• Researched and picked foundation (children’s cancer research) and set up large fundraising event
• Had 40+ participants shave their heads for charity, including the athletic director

Bs Mechanical Engineering, College Of Engineering

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