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Cambridge, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Managing a cross-functional team of nine engineers building the CarGurus iOS and Android apps• Brainstorming, testing, and iterating on differentiated experiences to increase lead conversion

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Acting as Scrum Master for sprint planning, grooming, and stand-ups• Managing quarterly dependency planning for my squad across the rest of the engineering org• Planning and prioritizing our migration from WebViews to ReactNative screens• Architecting our backend-for-frontend and collaborating across the engineering org to navigate dependencies in our broader decomposition effort moving to microservices

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Managed seven engineers across the globe on iOS, Android, Web & QA in a matrix organization• Set technical direction on cross-platform mobile initiatives, such as a migration towards Kotlin Multi-platform to avoid duplicative business logic across front-end clients• Planned, prioritized, estimated, and managed execution for the front-end KYC projects on the Marketplace team such as Debit Card Verification and ID Score, combatting fraud rates and increasing quality in the marketplace• Increased iOS App Rating from 3.8 stars to 4.2 stars over a three month period by iterating on strategic review prompting – quadrupling weekly volume and doubling our total to over 10,000 ratings in the App Store• SoLo Funds provides financial stability to underserved communities via a P2P marketplace to connect lenders and borrowers

Boston, Ma, Us

• Designed and implemented a survey framework, in close collaboration with both product and marketing. This enabled team members outside the engineering team to build JSON files that present a flow of screens to the user in-app, and collect their responses to customize their app experience.• Enhanced our Social Groups feature by adding up/down vote functionality, and the ability to hide/show potentially controversial comments.• Built three Widgets in SwiftUI for the iOS 14 launch.• Developed a chatbot using MessageKit to teach users about the app, recommend recipes, and answer questions about nutrition.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Developed and implemented monitoring and alerting strategy in NewRelic and Crashlytics to improve performance and reliability of our apps and APIs• Increased safety in the marketplace by introducing VIN barcode scanning to populate the year, make, and model of the vehicle and check for safety recalls to comply with local laws• Identified and tracked down the long tail of difficult crashes involving memory leaks and third party libraries that lead us to achieve 99.98% crash-free session rates

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Worked closely with product and design on a multi-month project to redesign and architect a custom image picker, camera, multi-photo upload queue and progress indicator, as well a reusable photo browser for guests to view Vehicle photos• Designed and maintained automated systems in TeamCity to open pull requests with generated response object models in our private CocoaPods library according to changes in our Swagger API documentation

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Founding member of the iOS team, shipping version 1.0 and bringing the app to parity with the web• Internationalized the app to handle multiple languages, currencies, and units of measurements for the Canada launch

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Developed award-winning audio plugins on the Studio team – specially Ozone, Nectar, and Alloy.• These have become industry standards for recording engineers across the world, and used by artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Björk, Skrillex, and T-Pain.

Bachelors, Dual Major In Computer Science & Music Technology

Bachelors Candidate, Music Industry & Computer Science