Greg Schechter Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, CA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

We're building field guides for the modern explorer. Schechter Natural History's Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of North America is the most comprehensive digital field guide out there. It contains illustrations and details for over 700 different species of herps(reptiles and amphibians).

Mountain View, CA, US

Developed integrations for Google Lens in Chrome on desktop and mobile, serving millions of queries every day.As the Engineering Manager of the Abmient Search in Chrome team, I led a team of 6-8, to create the "Search Generative Experience while Browsing" tool. This tool uses Generative AI to provide insights and help users take action on information found.

IE

Launched a new version of https://www.usewheelhouse.com* Improved the rendering time by 85% from ~9 seconds to ~1.3 seconds.** Added: Automatic route-based code splitting, Lazy loading and compression optimizations of images, Static generation, and more** Decreased JavaScript file size by 64%** Decreased CSS file size by 31%** Decreased Image file sizes by.

IE

Launched Movie by Atom Tickets as a Snapchat Mini app

New York, NY, US

First engineering full-time hire. Helped the company grow from a pre-seed start-up focused on dynamic pricing, to a multifaceted company focused on designing & managing a new category of accommodations with the largest multi-family operators.As a Tech Lead from 2016 to 2018, I led a team of 5, working in Ruby and React, to build Wheelhouse's first-in-class.

San Francisco, CA, US

As the Lead Engineering Manager of Boostable, I led a team of 6 engineers to build Boostable's self-service advertising platform for merchants.Architected and Built a Dashboard tool for Boostable's self-service product for marketplace adminsDeveloped, maintained, and led the deployment processAcquired by Metric CollectiveTechnologies: React and Scala

Senior Front End Engineer on Video Publisher TeamBuilt internal tools for Onavo data analysisTech Lead for internal JavaScript Data Visualization FrameworkDeveloped charts and visualizations for Facebook Insights projectsCreated Advertising Interfaces for Ads Create Flow

San Bruno, CA, US

Core member of the YouTube Web Developer team where I was the Tech Lead and evangelist for the YouTube HTML5 Video Player. I also was the accessibility lead for Section 508 compliance and built and designed the YouTube iframe embeds platform and api.Assisted with the development of YouTube Feather, YouTube 3D for HTML5, Live Streaming, Upload Widget, and.

Seattle, WA, US

Designed and developed Amazon's new gift card ordering interface.Lead various front-end performance initiatives within the company and across multiple teams.Assisted with site-wide advanced image compression research.

Mountain View, CA, US

Developed new features for YouTube's Discovery team.Developed the first iterations of the QuickList Toolbar, which is a persistent bar at the bottom of the screen that allows users to more effectively manage and view their QuickLists and PlayLists. This was the precursor to the Watch Later playlist.Led the proposal to make YouTube the world's largest.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Created widgets for the Yahoo Widget gallery.Automated the billing reports for all of Search Submit’s content providers and resellers.Developed a variety of hacks that competed in Yahoo’s various competitions.Won Best Hack at Yahoo! Internal Hack Day Summer 2007

Chicago, Illinois, US

Conducted tests on many of Motorola’s upcoming 3G cell phonesDesigned and created all software components of an automatic SIM dispenser. Using PHP and MySQL I independently created a web-based system where workers can reserve, check out, and check in sims for testing use.Assisted in the creation of the new mobile devices system test website. Gathered and.