John Pothier Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

San Jose, California, Us

Full stack engineer for Lambda's GPU cloud for machine learning- Built the customer-facing API from the ground up, adding $3M ARR- Ported the entire dashboard app from AngularJS to React- Leading full-stack development of the new model-hosting feature

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Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Conducted independent research and presented a technically feasible model of personalization to guide iZotope’s thinking on the subject- Developed a generic effects-building framework that reduced the time it took to implement a new effect from 2 weeks to 2 minutes.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

- Led 3-4 person feature teams with mentorship, project management, architecture review, and pair programming. Collaborated with product management, design, and upper management to make strategic decisions- Invented the versioning and conflict resolution algorithm for our offline-first system that synchronizes user data to the cloud and across devices- Made a simple system for robustly transmitting large payloads to Spire Studio over BLE- Led feature that intelligently analyzes your voice and applies DSP that gives it studio-grade polish- Led feature that automatically makes a song release-ready by leveraging iZotope’s Ozone technology- In response to feedback during user research sessions, increased the track limit from 8 to infinity, allowing users to create large projects without compromising app performance or UX- Attended CPPCon and recruited an eminent presenter to teach a course on performance best practices to our engineers- Gave presentations to the whole company to spread knowledge of C++ and share interesting technical stories from my team

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Firmware and mobile developer bringing Spire Studio (https://www.izotope.com/en/products/spire/spire-studio.html) and its companion apps to life.- Drove the development of a new audio engine framework to replace a buggy and unmaintainable legacy system. Graph-based paradigm made it easier to route audio correctly and debug signal flow issues- Wrote a coroutine library to facilitate wait-free communication between threads, which the whole engineering org adopted because it was easy to learn and use- Owner of the cross-platform C++ audio engine, providing real-time audio processing capabilities to our iOS, Android, and embedded applications- Created the initial prototype of Instrument ID, a feature that detects what instrument you’re playing, which impressed product management so much they rearranged the roadmap to accommodate it- Owner of the C++ application providing audio processing capability and ZeroMQ-based wireless tethering between Spire Studio and mobile apps- Worked on the real-time embedded Linux kernel and wrote drivers using the Yocto project- Wrote microcontroller firmware for an ARM Cortex-M0+ with LEDs and capacitive touch- Discovered a safety-critical silicon bug in the battery charging IC- Implemented the automated test system used at the manufacturing facility for quality control

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Engineer on the Outlook team. - (C#/JavaScript/Windows/COM) Develop an Outlook add-in that analyzes and modifies email and calendar data in order to integrate with the Yesware Sales Acceleration platform, which provides email tracking and Salesforce sync across several email clients. - (Ruby/Rails) Add features to the Yesware backend to support Outlook- and Office365-related Yesware features.

Redmond, Washington, Us

.NET developer and test engineer for Office 365. Back-end developer on an upcoming business application, Support and Recovery Assistant, that will modernize customer support for Exchange's client applications (Outlook and mobile email apps). Designed multi-process architecture, plug-in framework/SDK, and telemetry infrastructure. Patched issues with Microsoft Exchange's account settings service (AutoDiscover) and mobile email protocol (ActiveSync).

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Tutor by appointment for the general student body. Subjects: Calc I-III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Discrete Math.

Medford, Massachusetts, Us

Conducted machine learning research under supervision of faculty. Read papers on on-line learning, matrix prediction, and tensor factorization. Developed the first mathematical framework and provably optimal algorithm for on-line tensor prediction. Potential applications in iterative processing of large, multi-dimensional datasets, such as classification of geophysical vibration patterns.

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

Debugged both server- and client-side code for their financial trading platform using Visual Studio and SQL Server.Conducted performance analysis on the trading system to diagnose potential issues with high-volume trading. Ran stress-tests on a collection of virtual machines using Power Shell automation scripts. Aggregated and analyzed performance data in Excel using custom VBA scripts.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics