David Hernon Email & Phone Number

Reston, Virginia, US

Montreal, QC, CA

• Designed UX and developed web apps for building and deploying chatbots to Messenger/Slack/Kik. Front-end built with Typescript/ReasonML/React/Node/Apollo/GraphQL. Data lived in POSTgres and CouchDB. Infra relied on.
• Developed an in-house chat messaging service supporting 1M+ conversations that integrated client websites bypassing the need to deploy to Messenger/Slack/Kik. Integration led to an increase in client sales by 100% and.
• Acted as tech communication lead with clients Amika, L’Oreal, and National Bank.
• US patent on a new methodology for generating conversational bots: David Hernon et. al. (2020). SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS (29/729, 529)
• Led the initiative to create a successful user testing rubric that contributed to user satisfaction.
• Hiring engineering team leading to front-end and back-end team growth of 400%

• Full stack engineer for mobile, web, and embedded technologies
• Developed touchscreen advertisements and games for clients. Deployed and maintained the apps on embedded touchscreens at 20 bus stops in the Toronto area accumulating 30,000+ impressions per week.
• Developed an internal analytics tool using ChartJS and Angular for generating live data visualizations.
• Developed process to batch download, clean, and analyze user data. Auto-generate analytics reports that were sent to clients.

• Mobile and Desktop App development around shared music experiences. Experience building native iOS apps and Full Stack Web Development.
• Created partnerships with dozens of organizations including Amnesty International and Unify.
• Built a Ruby-on-Rails powered music-sharing and event-organizing web platform with 30,000+ unique users.
• Developed a companion web app in AngularJS that used web sockets and a custom audio-stream-synchronizing library to simultaneously stream a single live audio source to global dance parties with sub-300ms latency.
• Hosted and produced weekly live music shows powered by our web streaming service. Grew this weekly event into a yearly digital festival that 30,000 people participated in from almost 100 cities simultaneously.
• Architected and developed an iOS social app in Objective-C and Swift for uploading and sharing user-generated videos. Used FFMPEG/bash/JavaScript/S3 to batch process user uploads and run an in-house CDN.

Burlington, MA, US

Experience running the Load Test and maintaining the test environment for the Voicemail to Text product. Received practical experience as a Systems Engineer and QA Tester.Original internship with Nuance was in Professional Services Summer of 2012.Returned in 2013 as a QA Intern, returned again for 10 months on the same QA team from late Summer 2014 through.