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New York, Ny, Us

- Managed 2-3 teams of between 12-15 total engineers across mobile mobile and product foundations.- Spearheaded multiple product and technical initiatives across the mobile and platform spaces; leading to 10x product velocity improvements and increasing stability across the product from ~98% -> 99.9%.- Directly managed a project to re-architect our multiple product verticals into a total health solution. This project spanned 4 teams, 25 engineers, and 6 product managers over 9 months that reported to directly to c-staff to deliver our next gen products.- Built a new personalized curriculum across all users, which led to a 10x improvement in curriculum iteration across the company, 20% improvement in CAC, and 10% improved weight loss success the quarter it was released.- Supported 22 new curriculum modules that allowed for more personalization of the product, including Age and Metabolism, Stress, Men's Health, and others.

New York, Ny, Us

- Managed 12 engineers across multiple teams, including Noom Mood (1st product expansion into a new vertical), Mobile Platform, and Core Product.- Reorganized mobile hiring after an 8-month stall before I joined.- Grew iOS from 8 to 18 engineers and Android from 3 to 12 engineers in 8 months.- Created a company-wide plan to scale to 35 iOS / 25 Android within another year and was on track before hiring froze at ~40 engineers.- Led a company wide push to a modern reactive architecture (TCA) over 1.5 years, deprecating 4 major legacy technologies and moving all new and ongoing development to modern technologies (SwiftUI / Jetpack Compose). This led to a 10% velocity improvement across mobile engineering while reducing regression-related incidents.- Introduced processes to improve mobile on call scalability and increase stability metrics from ~98% to 99.9%- Improved the mobile release management process to be standardized and reliable across the org, changing from biweekly or monthly releases and weekly hotfixes to weekly releases and minimal hotfixes (<1 a month).

New York, New York, Us

- Executed a strategic flutter migration plan in collaboration with product and design teams, prioritizing critical areas of the codebase to alleviate team challenges and technical debt swiftly.- Led a 5 person team on our first Flutter project to rebuild our home screen over 4 months.- Worked with product and design to build a design doc process for the team, which defined product specs and requirements in an in-depth, cohesive manner that retained institutional knowledge across the org.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Orchestrated the effective management of 12 developers spanning two teams, overseeing both the mobile team and search team to drive collaborative success.- Architected platform-agnostic mobile codebases by building a cohesive, cross-platform architecture using MVI, ReactiveX, Kotlin, and Swift. This enabled every developer to swap between platforms as needed.- Rebuilt trust in the Search team across the Product and Design orgs by developing their project management skills to deliver on time while raising visibility into critical KLO updates and security concerns.- Managed a rework of our core experience across the company, increasing average property likes by 84%.- Organized staffing and project management for the mobile team.- Led a high-priority ad product by modifying our search systems, increasing total company revenue by 20%.-Documented and refactored legacy billing pipelines to automate collection for the new revenue streams.- Expanded the iOS app from a single city alpha to a nationwide release.- Built the Android app, releasing it 1 month early on a 6-month timeline.- Grew both apps into top 3 in category with over 5 million total installs.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

- Pioneered the development of an innovative app creation platform, enabling YouTube celebrities to craft personalized applications for their fan bases in under an hour.- Designed a robust data layer using Core Data, RestKit, and AFNEtworking to support features such as messaging and video remixing across hundreds of apps

- Instrumental in propelling Zynga Poker to become the Top Grossing Application in the highly competitive App Store, contributing to significant revenue growth (6-> 7 figures / day)- Designed and implemented new CI systems using Hudson to streamline the build process across the entire mobile division, leading to $250,000 / year savings.- Led development of core features such as HiLo, Blackjack, and Achievements