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San Jose, Ca, Us

Berkeley, Ca, Us

ClassDojo: Wrote over 100 unit tests to cover the most fragile code in their iOS app, making changes “so easy and stress-free.” Paired with each iOS developer to improve their skills in test-writing and collaboration.Starbucks: Developed training in technical agile practices for their company-wide learning center. Trained programmers in code smells, refactoring, unit testing, test-driven development (TDD), characterization testing, mutation testing, test doubles, and evolutionary design.Ford: Coached Ford Pro Telematics teams and the FordPass iOS platform team, improving their ability to deliver. Upskilled UK iOS developers in a hands-on workshop involving factoring a codebase from legacy UIKit to high-quality, test-driven SwiftUI.Royal Bank of Canada, Ford, Superhuman: Grew the testing and refactoring skills of their iOS developers through hands-on workshops.Heartland Payment Systems: Rewrote their point-of-sale app from Objective-C to React Native on an Extreme Programming (XP) team, enabling their clients to shift from large, expensive iPads to handheld Android devices.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

Fearlessly change the design of your iOS code with solid unit tests. Use Xcode’s built-in test framework XCTest and Swift to get rapid feedback on all your code — including legacy code. Learn the tricks and techniques of testing all iOS code, especially view controllers (UIViewControllers), which are critical to iOS apps. Learn to isolate and replace dependencies in legacy code written without tests. Practice safe refactoring that makes these tests possible, and watch all your changes get verified quickly and automatically. Make even the boldest code changes with complete confidence.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Alaska Airlines, ABN AMRO Bank, Achmea, Egencia, E-gineering, Simple banking: Taught hands-on workshops giving their iOS developers experience in test-driven development. Everyone is surprised to learn that you can test user interface code with cheap, fast-running unit tests instead of expensive, slow-running UI tests.ABN AMRO Bank, Achmea, Homie Real Estate: Gave technical coaching to improve their Xcode project configurations for faster build and test feedback, and ways to bring their hard-to-test code under test.Synchrony Financial: Delivered custom workshop to teach their iOS developers how to write effective unit tests.Created open-source tools for developers: PyHamcrest, OCHamcrest, OCMockito, ViewControllerPresentationSpy, XcodeWarnings, ApprovalTests.Swift, ExpectToEventuallyEqual, TCR-Xcode.Taught workshops and gave presentations at numerous conferences in Europe, Japan, and the USA.Writing articles on technical agile practices for iOS developers at qualitycoding.org

New York, Ny, Us

Advanced testing practices across the iOS team. Unit tests increased from around 3,200 to over 22,000. Worked with iOS engineers to make production code more decomposed and testable, and to improve their test code.Shipped well-factored, well-tested features with pleasing UI and few defects. Negotiated API details to ensure the back-end supplied the needs of the iOS and Android use cases. Shipped sooner thanks to close collaboration with UX designers, and with fewer defects thanks to TDD.Diagnosed a hard-to-reproduce race condition in biometric login by measuring the problem in production. Advocated for allowing customers to manually initiate biometric authentication, which solved the problem.Reduced maintenance costs by eliminating several thousand lines of dead code. Made it harder to ship defects by adding modern type annotations to Objective-C code to improve Swift type safety..Presentations: “Making Swift Mock Objects More Powerful” / “Intro to Test-Driven Development” / “Walking Skeletons and Story Slicing” / “Story Slicing, Part 2” / “Remote Pair Programming” / “How to Sit (Ergonomics)”

Redmond, Wa, Us

Dramatically reduced build times for all iOS developers. Made it harder to ship defects by initiating unit testing at the UI layer.Ported video messaging features from the Skype Qik app to the flagship Skype iOS app, using AVFoundation to record and play back video messages.Shipped ability to open documents sent via Skype app, promoting installs of Microsoft apps to open Office documents.

Reduced maintenance costs in the Facebook iOS code by reducing unneeded dependencies between components.Exposed maintenance costs in the Instagram iOS code by making dependencies explicit.Taught testing workshops to new engineering hires across the company.Taught “Intro to Test-Driven Development” and “Testing Philosophy, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TDD”

San Jose, Ca, Us

eBay Instant Sale app: Built from the ground up, working with the Instant Sale team and the external vendor.eBay Fashion app and eBay Motors app: Shipped features sooner thanks to close collaboration with UX designers, and with fewer defects thanks to TDD.Taught TDD to new engineering hires across the company.Presentations: “Clean Architecture for iOS” to eBay’s developers in Berlin / “Zen Programming” / “Xcode TDD 101” / “Why You SHOULDN’T Unit Test” / “TDD from Hell” / “Test-Driven Development for Mobile Apps” / “Objective-C Code Dojo” / “Intro to Test-Driven Development”

San Jose, Ca, Us

Fixed PayPal code to comply with new OS and C++ compiler on major cross-company upgrade initiative.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Built Mac Outlook “mini calendar” from the ground up.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Internationalized Drobo Dashboard across Mac and Windows. Localized the application for Japanese, French and German, enabling cross-platform entry into the world market.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Created cross-platform tool to measure perceptual differences between images to help determine whether a difference is benign or an error.Extended standard Python unit testing framework so it could be used within a system not designed for unit testing. Used it to write tests for 2D rendering library.Wrote test harness for 2D rendering library, setting it up to check for perceptual differences in images rendered on both Mac and Windows.Taught test coding principles and promoted unit testing, resulting in the developers adopting a unit testing framework.

Cupertino, California, Us

Worked on UI elements of iWork suite and iWeb.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Wrote cross-platform test harness for font management library.Added new C++ iterator types to open-source Adobe Source Libraries (ASL).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Demonstrated and promoted good design principles and programming practices. Gave presentation to entire division promoting iterative development.Implemented a C++ unit-testing framework so that developers could start writing unit tests.Developed architecture for cross-platform UI library that supported transition from old to new design on a dialog-by-dialog basis.Illustrator 10: Developed string localization library.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

Shipped HTML export on ClarisWorks for Mac.Added support for Japanese HTML export in ClarisWorks 5.0-J.Shipped ability to export Japanese tables to HTML.Extended ClarisWorks cross-platform file format to support new 5.0-J functionality.

Champaign, Il, Us

Developed GUI for High-Performance Fortran performance analysis source code browser.

Reduced development time for client projects by creating C++ library for database access, container classes, character strings, input of arguments through either GUI or command line, and shareware licensing.

Champaign, Il, Us

Internationalized XEmacs providing Asian language capability for Sun Microsystems.

Installed TeX and LaTeX on VAX/VMS. Taught LaTeX to professors.Developed Japanese-capable version of Donald Knuth's literate programming tools.Taught beginner programming lab to university students.

Developed database applications for clients. Reduced development time by creating code template generator.

Developed customer tracking and billing system.

M.S., Computer Science

B.S., Computer Science

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