Michael Kwan Email & Phone Number

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

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