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Mountain View, Ca

• Led crossfunctional client team for development of new printing features and products for Google Photos• Developed new printing product SKUs for Google Photos, with initial deployment in different geos.• Lead engineer for enhanced battery saver mode to drastically reduce battery drain by over half• Lead engineer for system settings for Wear OS by Google• Overhauled system theming for Wear OS by Google for consistency and maintainabiltiy• Responsible for system health for Wear OS by Google Frameworks team• Enforced and resolved issues with Android Compatibility Test Suite for Wear OS by Google devices• Developed battery debugging process to track down battery life regression issues

San Francisco, Ca

• Led development and deployment of company's first consumer Android app to allow people to speak with an expanding pool of trained listeners

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed Android app to log data from Bluetooth device• Assembled, programmed, and debugged prototype Bluetooth workout tracker devices

Oakville, Canada

• Instructor for CCT482 Interactive Electronic Design

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Developed and deployed Android app to gather user survey data• Incorporated geolocation and alarm based triggers for user input• Designed RESTful API to synchronize and push server data to mobile clients

Toronto, Canada Area

• Optimized NLP system to classify type of social network update for real-time classification• Built custom document sharing system using Google App Engine• Developed REST API for iOS app using Jersey Java framework

Kitchener, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed Android client for a mobile risk and device management system for monitoring of Android devices• Integrated an automation engine to automate device policies on Android devices• Developed Android support for NSA/IAD designed device integrity monitoring tool• Added Bluetooth device enforcement to Sentinel for Blackberry devices to conform to US DoD STIG requirements

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed custom attendee registration and payment system with Paypal and Facebook integration to ease attendee registration and optimally allocate attendee subsidies• Built QR code based system on attendee's nametags to track and help attendees swap contact information• Generated visualization of the attendee's contact information swapping using the QR code based system• Maintained Wordpress website

• Developed web utility with Python to aggregate and display publisher quality data from Bigtable and MySQL databases• Rapid development of bulk site review tool cutting down site review time by 60%• Performed distributed experimentation analysis with large sets of data using Sawzall and Python

• Designed, developed, and released an Android and BlackBerry Java application for mobile currency conversion in two months• Managed and data-mined the mobile application MySQL database• Rewrote Tomcat server Java code to reduce bandwidth usage by 50%• Interfaced mobile applications with web services using XML and protocol buffers• Wrote a management interface to manage the mobile applications using PHP

• Researched, designed and fabricated metamaterial structures using a focused ion beam to improve photovoltaic cell efficiency• Operated a physical vapour deposition system to characterize magnetic thin-films• Utilized photolithography to create micro structures utilizing polymers

• Programmed industrial DENSO Scara robot for automated silicon wafer manipulation• Utilized accelerometer to analyze rigid frame vibrations from a mounted robot• Designed manipulator alignment system and created concept models using Solidworks

• Fabricated parts by utilizing a CNC Milling Machine and a 3D ABS printer• Designed and prototyped consumer robots using Alibre Design• Designed and prototyped compliant robotic manipulators by using wax moulding and shape deposition manufacturing.• Designed a cable driven two degree of freedom differential wrist system• Assembled and TIG welded an aluminum vacuum chamber• Joined steel robotics components using MIG welding