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San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Software development of the Xbox One operating system, including development of critical system services, app development, UI/UX development, user-mode and kernel debugging, performance investigations, interactions with web services, and cross team collaboration.Disclosable achievementsSinglehandedly rebuilt the Xbox One’s notification stack, a widely used feature essential to many signature experiences, greatly improving its usability, reliability, and maintainability. This effort required cross team collaboration to assess internal needs and understand external components.Acted as Xbox’s resident notifications expert, writing guides and supporting partner teams with their notification scenarios. Continually improved the notification system by refining its features, adding new ones features, and adopting converged Windows components.Developed the beloved Xbox One’s Guide application, contributing to features including core functionalities, the landing page, support for shortcuts, support for context menus, notification center, and mini game hubs.Contributed to many of the shell’s core functionalities such as app to app transition, message dialogs, progress dialogs, conflict resolution dialogs, idle detection and background music. Worked with external teams to adopt new Windows 10 OS components as needed. Took part in the daily dev of the day rotation to investigate shell regressions.Created a system service using system dialogs to surface the state of game save cloud syncing operations to users.Created Snap Center 2.0, an ancestor of the Guide application used as the multitasking entry point in earlier versions of the operation system.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Internship focused on the development of tools used by the Xbox engineering team. Prototyped a risk assessment & mitigation tool using heuristics to evaluate risk of code changes at check in time. Culminated in a full time offer.

Two internships and part time contractual work in between. Mostly focused on the development of CYME Scripting Tool with Python® a tool enabling customers to automate power distribution analysis with CYMDIST using Python.Achievements:Researched & prototyped available technologies to interface a C++ API surface with an embedded Python interpreter. Produced a whitepaper weighting the pros and cons of each solutions and recommending the usage of SWIG.Enabled Python scripting within CYMDIST by embedding a python interpreter. Created a Python command line and a lightweight embedded IDE using MFC.Contributed to the development of CYMDIST’s C++ API surface and its exposition to Python through SWIG.