Robert Tolar Haining Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, Us

I manage the Product Engineering team, who is responsible for the software that powers the Aura mobile apps, among other things.

Engineer at a startup, where I worked on many projects, such as:- Galactic Camera: a macOS app providing informational layers on top of your existing video conferencing software.- Fancy.art: a macOS screensaver and rejected Apple TV app that shows off your NFT collection and those of your favorite wallets.- The Watcher: a macOS app that keeps you up to speed on Ethereum prices, as well as recent transactions of wallets you specify. Read up on the tech stack.- Skyteller: a decentralized off-ramp for turning crypto into fiat currency.

Nyc & Sf, Us

I was responsible for technical strategy and building an iPhone app, a backend Python API, and a MySQL database. With Nugget, you can record your own audio or share audio from around the Internet.

New York, Ny, Us

I managed a team of 10 software engineers building out new customer facing features in our mobile apps and backend systems.

New York, Ny, Us

iOS engineer on the App Experience team at Venmo. I worked on the relaunch of the Venmo iOS app that was entirely rewritten in Swift. I also worked on the teams that built multi-factor authentication, payment method management, and the customer identification program.

San Jose, Ca, Us

PayPal acquired Modest in 2015, which was rebranded as PayPal Commerce, where I worked for over a year, before being transferred to Venmo.

Chicago, Il, Us

After Modest was acquired by Braintree/PayPal, I continued my work developing the PayPal Commerce iOS SDK.

Chicago, Il, Us

I built an iOS SDK that enabled retailers to launch mobile commerce apps or add commerce to their existing apps. We were acquired by PayPal in 2015. By the end of its life, we powered shops in over 60 iOS apps in the App Store. Many of these apps were generated by our automated app submission system, which I helped design & develop.

New York, Ny, Us

In 2012, News.me acquired the Digg brand, which we relaunched as an editorially based news curation service. In 2013, we built a Digg RSS aggregator and reader. I invented a feature that detected ambient light to determine whether to switch to a 'dark mode', allowing our readers' eyes a break when reading in low-light conditions (this feature has since been implemented by countless other apps and integrated into iOS, tvOS, and macOS).

In 2011, I joined the Betaworks startup studio as an iOS engineer for their newly launched startup News.me, which provided a personalized news aggregator based on articles your friends posted on Twitter & Facebook. I invented a novel feature called Paperboy, which used geofencing to trigger news updates, so your feed would automatically update on your way to the subway (this was before the days of cell service & wifi in the NYC subway system).

New York, Ny, Us

At the beginning of 2011, the Interactive Product Group (IPG) was formed at Condé Nast. We consisted of four technologists across design, product, engineering, & marketing. We were created based on past success in the mobile space, with the hopes of creating new brands & products that didn't necessarily fall into traditional lines of revenue for the company.In June 2011, IPG launched Idea Flight, a utility that would allow you to present slide decks, documents, designs, or any other PDF across multiple iPads in the same room. We had great feedback from both press & users, garnering public praise from LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner and Best Buy CTO Robert Stephens. Idea Flight allowed you to ditch paper decks & projectors, and thus allow for high resolution of content and control over the consumption experience. Internally, we even used the app for day-to-day work like meeting agendas.

New York, Ny, Us

Mobile tech lead for several award-winning iOS apps, including:- Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List: utility for finding great recipes on the go and cooking them in the kitchen.- Condé Nast Magazine Platform launched with GQ, Vanity Fair, and Glamour.- Wired Product Reviews: research reviews on the go.- Postcard by Concierge.com: apply filters to photos, and share them with friends.Full-stack engineer on a small Special Projects team that built Facebook and MySpace apps.

Part of the 4-developer Special Projects team that developed large company-wide projects, while still retaining the flexibility to work on small, site-specific projects.Major Projects- iEat (sole engineer / creator): Brought each newspaper's restaurants' database into the iPod Classic.- Bracket Contest Tool (sole engineer): Enabled newspapers to create NCAA bracket-style tournaments for their readers.- Directory Tool (sole engineer): Enabled newspapers to create online directories for their community churches, local businesses, etc.- MediaHub (tech lead / creator): Hyperlocal photo-sharing website with a neighborhood-based approach.

*Maintained and performed minor enhancements to legacy Perl CGI scripts, as well as creating internal applications.*Accepted maintenance tasks from the Help Desk. Where appropriate, documented solution and trained the Help Desk in handling it.

From 2000-2003, I was a dj at WAKE Radio, the student run radio station at Wake Forest University. I was the General Manager 2003-2004.

Bs, Computer Science, Mathematics

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