Devon Strawn Email & Phone Number

West Hollywood, California, Us

Experimentation & growth platform engineering

West Hollywood, California, Us

I created Ghosty, a new kind of image bookmarking service for creative thinkers. Ghosty makes it possible to collect and organize vast quantities of images to form a personal visual lexicon.• Engineered a backend architecture for simplicity and speed at scale, based on OpenResty and HTTP/2.• Developed custom Chrome and Firefox browser extensions for bookmarking & tagging, custom web crawlers for niche communities using Scrapy & Python, and novel image & tag recommendation systems.• Prototyped new features, including tools for visualizing & creating color palettes from images, and a system to generate large knowledge graphs from semantic datasets and the web.• Developed an end-to-end pipeline to build & deploy new code to the cloud.

I run an independent software engineering & design consultancy. My clients include large tech companies such as Microsoft and Intel, early- and mid-stage startups like Quattro, JagTag (acquired by Hipcricket), and Airware (YC W13, A12Z-funded, acquired by Delair), and established SMBs including ESHA Research and Open Solutions (acquired by Fiserv).A sample of projects I've built for clients:• Intel Labs: Designed & built a suite of interactive data visualizations for large datasets using D3.js and SVG, including time-series, correlations, geospatial, and periodic visualizations. Implemented differential privacy and social networking features. Collaborated with AI researchers to design & develop new visualizations & tools for timeseries prediction & analytics models based on Bayesian inference, GAMM, and MARS.• Microsoft: Built several apps for the Education Products Group, including a spaced-repetition learning app and a digital textbook viewer.• Intel TMG: Built a real-time visualization, monitoring & alerting dashboard for Intel's next-generation Fab 42 chip fabrication manufacturing processes.• Microsoft Moab: Built a scalable, multi-threaded photo import UI for a consumer digital photo app (a la Adobe Lightroom). Engineered custom UI components for search, tagging, and the application shell.Airware: Implemented the automonous drone photo survey feature area for Airware's drone app, and a real-time mapping and visualization component for survey flight-planning. Wrote a post-processing subsystem to sync photos and flight data to a RESTful cloud backend and interop with 3D photogrammetric reconstruction.At The Pixel Division, I've developed and shipped products using a broad range of technologies, including: • WebGL, JavaScript, Vue.JS, React, WebVR• Python, Java, Lua & LuaJIT, Node.JS• iOS, Swift, GLES, GLSL shaders, GPUImage• C#, C/C++, Win32, OpenCVSee my portfolio at: www.ThePixelDivision.com for more details

Experimenting with cutting-edge VR, AR, and Mixed Reality technologies.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Initiated an ambitious & successful turnaround project to save an acquired product after loss of key engineers.Created an innovative software architecture for native Win32 / WPF interop that solved multiple business & engineering problems for several high-profile Microsoft & 3rd-party products.Mentored developers, presented to executives, evangelized new technologies to internal groups.Updated & simplified the architecture for a million lines of legacy C/C++ code with very few regressions. Only a few dozen minor bugs were detected due to careful, deliberate engineering and planning.Helped onboard 8 product & QA engineers in less than 6 months, while shipping a v1 product in the midst of a major re-architecture.In addition, contributed several new features:• XAML export & interop with Blend• Bitmap and vector editing tools• Image processing algorithms• UX editing & wireframing prototypes• SIMD MMX assembly optimizations• Cold and warm startup optimizations• Real-time editing prototype with live updates across multiple products

Redmond, Washington, Us

Early developer on a large-scale v1 design tool.• Built design, animation, control editing, and layout editing tools• Invented patented animation, computer graphics, UX, and interaction design technologies• Built custom controls and user interfaces• Contributed to the WPF API design.• Developed prototypes to explore the possibilities of WPF and .NET• Created the unit testing framework used by the entire teamBlend was an interesting project because it was built using only the most cutting-edge technology. It represents several firsts:• 1st large-scale .NET desktop app written entirely in C#, with no native code• 1st pure WPF app• 1st pure vector app user interface - entirely resolution-independent and scalable to any DPI

Bachelor Of Arts, Mathematics, With Studies In Design, Computer Graphics, Ai, Computer Vision, Gis

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