Lauren Yew Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

I am responsible for the engineering efforts of the Games Android Team -- the Android native mobile app team that focuses on building the NYT Games: Word, Number, Logic app which includes games like Wordle, Sudoku, and Crossword

New York, Ny, Us

Developed NYT Android & iOS core feature libraries (Login, Authentication, Purchasing, Privacy, Dev Settings, Observability, etc) and the News/Cooking/Games/Audio/The Athletic apps with the App Platforms Team.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed NYT Android & iOS feature libraries and the News/Cooking/Games apps with the App Platforms Team

London, Gb

Developed the Android & iOS BabylonHealth US apps to provide user with easy access to tele-health, appointment booking, video calls, and result details, insurance membership, AI health check, etc.

Baltimore, Maryland, Us

Developed the Android & iOS Connected Devices Bluetooth libraries used to interact with the UnderArmour connected shoes and other bluetooth devices. Also worked on shoe and workout detail related features for the MapMyFitness apps.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Lead Kotlin & MVP Conversion Team Initiative of Android AF, RESI, and SHOP feature releases, which increased test coverage by over 60%. Also converted iOS Calendar feature to MVP, improving test coverage of feature by 88%.• Doubled speed of cross feature list performance with extensible library including sectioned RecyclerView.Adapter and cursor to POJO background threading converter that improved list load and update speed and replaced low performing cursor lists with RecyclerViews and native animations in preparation from conversion to Google Room• Lead Mapping Redesign Release. Refactored map features into MVP, redesigned all feature UI to match Google Maps and material design, including: add a custom poi, a new point of interest list and detail design, as well as a new route selection design. • Implemented Fastlane Automated Screenshots for Android and iOS feature set• Refactored iOS Directory Filter Feature into reusable base class and implemented for map and poi list filters• Lead Shopping Feature Release and Created Promotions Feature. Promotions feature allows users to interact with a coupon-like interface with filters and searches across stores, promotion types, etc. Developed generic filter UI & MVP interface that was integrated and customized for other uses of filter in AppFramework.• Lead Mapping/Turn by Turn Feature Upgrade Release. Rebuilt Mapping/Location modules from the ground up with the new MNW 3.1.0 Platform SDKs and material design patterns. Features include: (MVP pattern) indoor turn by turn routing-map overlay/list integration, point of interest details, dynamic location providers, and home to venue integration with Google Maps. • Created automated reactive Jenkins build system allowing parallel espresso testing• Created sample app deployment process with Jenkins and Fabric for customer AF trials for Android apps.• Upgraded all Android features for Android O & Gradle 3.0

Dallas, Texas, Us

ZixOne (Android/iOS native apps for enterprise corporate email security)• Designed and developed full stack of core features including: email, calendar (online and offline), contacts, media player, tasks, and reminders—creating reactive enterprise native apps which provide secure corporate email without storing data on the device. ZixOne services over 30K users and 500 companies. Fully featured demo versions are available on the Apple and Google Play stores.• Reduced time to fetch emails from REST server by 50% by implementing Dobjanschi/Handler Pattern and redesigning background-threading infrastructure with Volley.• Coordinated successful delivery of calendar feature. Took ownership of project—the first component to require extensive pre-fetching, updating, and sharing of cache across several sub-views. Specifications for the release also included creating a fully-fledged UI for month, week, and day views, as well as event creation, deletion, and editing, within a reduced time frame. Delivered a high-quality product implementation, which emerged as a prototype for future development and was praised by senior management for its excellent performance and UI design. • Implemented parallel Material Design UI conversion, partnering with UX designer to update the ZixOne UI to the latest design patterns while maintaining backwards-compatibility support back to JB.• Executed initiative to migrate all BDD testing to dynamic Jenkins-driven Appium page model tests from MonkeyTalk. Researched tools, presented plan of action, and implemented setup and migration. Resulting BDD testing system reduced release/merge automation testing time by 2 days.• Managing weekly demos. Fostered engagement between development and support teams, establishing an early warning system for upcoming issues in production—cutting issue response time by several days.

cOrcs (Continuation of Orc Security) (2011-2012). Designed Scala language compiler and interpreter rules with new Orc grammar options for an optional security extension feature. Scala, OrcUndergraduate Honors Thesis (2013). Programming Language Security with Orc and Scala Turing Scholars Honors Program (Computer Science) at the University of Texas at Austin• Supervising professors: William D. Young, Ph.D. William R. Cook, Ph.D.• Sample code: https://github.com/laurenyew/cOrcS.git• Thesis paper: http://apps.cs.utexas.edu/tech_reports/reports/tr/TR-2113.pdf

Us

EMPower (Reservoir Simulation App)• Refactored manual build process into an automated TFS nightly build system for Reservoir simulation app, significantly reducing nightly overhead tasks and resource usage.

San Diego, Ca, Us

CoreBSP Product Integration and Management• Managed product integration, OS security, and networking in applications for Apple iPhone 5.