Jacob Preston Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, Us

Backend Engineering Lead working on Investing Products. Backend Community of Practice Lead (Infrastructure Lead)

Palo Alto, California, Us

Backend Engineering Lead working on Investing Products.

Palo Alto, California, Us

Formally area engineering lead as an Android engineer working on Automated Savings, Banking and Financial Planning.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Worked on the Fitbit communication stack supporting Fitbit's bluetooth libraries• Helped implement Ionic's Fitbit Operating System and created a javascript interface for developer to easily deploy apps for the Ionic and it's Android companion app.• Implemented a number of core Fitbit features in the Android app such as Friend Finder, Phone Verification for China, Corporate Wellness Race, Fitbit Adventures, and a large current project• Lead the Fitbit social tools team where I was responsible for maintaining and updating UI for friend finding, account settings, and profile• Responsible for supporting all other feature teams by maintaining the social data layerwhich consists of databases and api calls for friends, user profiles, badges , user statistics, etc.• Restructured the Fitbit app’s analytics from using 3rd party to using our own in-house analytics reporting system

Started Leeo’s android project and have taken on a leading role in structuring the software architecture of the app while working on a team with two other peopleResponsible for programming much of the core functionality of the app such as backend integration, Bluetooth Low Energy pairing, push notifications via Pubnub, account authentication via AccountManager, image and camera operations and many other other integral parts of the applicationOwned many UI screens, which were designed via Android XML sheets upon receiving guidelines from UX/UIHelped design a framework for android testing at Leeo that would extensively cover all ranges of differences across phones, carriers and API versions (ex. KitKat vs. Lollipop)Was one of four developers and a significant contributor working on Leeo’s iOS application which was released October 2014 and primarily developed UI screens prior to launch and then focused on bug fixes post launch

• Improved a number of post-launch, user interface screens such as our network screen, new user creation screen, game images, and worked on fixes to Ouya’s Out of Box Experience • Worked with one other person to fix Ethernet/Wi-Fi connectivity problems that were hindering user experience and I was responsible for implementing connectivity tests and responses throughout the console’s interface • Created several support tools for our QA team and our Customer Service department such as a retail flashing tool, an in office flash tool, and wrote several scripts to help automate testing for QA and CS

St. Charles, Iowa, Us

New York City, Us