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United States, Us

- Leveraged the iOS Core Location and MapKit frameworks to allow users to share theirlocation with other users at user-specified locales.- Built numerous custom UIKit components and animations to accommodate a detailed,high-fidelity user interface design.- Utilized GraphQL to query the application backend- Built a real-time messaging service with a custom user interface, slack/discord stylereactions/emojis, location sharing using WebSockets.- Built a privacy-preserving contact-finder leveraging the user’s address book foronboarding/growth purposes

Atlanta, Us

- Deployed/integrated in-house content recommendation system within the CNN iOSapplication- Used TypeScript and the Svelte framework in the development of Interview Club, an

Brooklyn, New York, Us

- Acquired by CNN, April 2020- Used UIKit to develop Tonic, a reading/listening application that interfaced with theCanopy privacy-preserving content recommendation system. This included a novelinterface for feedback to influence future content recommendations, as well as a nativepodcast player interface.- Leveraged Core Data and Protocol Buffers to build on-device storage andcommunication with backend for the purpose of doing privacy-preserving contentrecommendations.- Used Go, gRPC and Kubernetes to build and deploy the initial Canopy recommendationsystem backend as well as an OAuth token refresh service.

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

- Developed application infrastructure to present a user interface for users to provideinteractive feedback in Spotify’s “Discover Weekly” product.- Worked closely with designers, backend engineers and machine-learning engineers to deliver improvements to Spotify’s recommendations experience.

- Worked with clients ranging from top-tier tech startups to Fortune 500 companies.- Built many iOS and Mac applications using UIKit and AppKit from conception todistribution.- Provided specialized engineering services for advanced application features on existingapplications.- Repaired and rearchitected poorly performing applications, solved sophisticated datasynchronization issues, fixed data loss and unexpected application termination bugs.- Gained deep knowledge in many iOS frameworks and technologies including but notlimited to : Core Bluetooth, Core Location, Core Data, AVFoundation, AVKit, Core Graphics, and Core Animation

New York, Us

- Broke ground and developed much of the native Tumblr application for iOS: APIintegration/custom UI development.- Fixed many crashing bugs in the pre-existing hybrid web/native Tumblr iOS application(transferred from contractors to Tumblr ownership)

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Worked on several client applications for iOS including NCAA March Madness, FilmicPro (first video editor for iOS), Batch a group photo sharing application, and Equinox.- Participated in early in-house development of Mac and iOS applications, namely an RSSreader known as NetNewsWire. I leveraged the nascent iCloud technology to sync RSSfeeds between devices.

Austin, Tx, Us

- Led development and maintenance of Gowalla’s flagship iOS application which saw useby over a million users.- Working closely with designers, I implemented numerous custom user-interfacecomponents (the app saw 3 complete visual redesigns) and novel UI patterns.- Working with the rest of the engineering team, I kept the application integrated with arapidly-changing web service via REST API.- Worked extensively with Core Location, focusing on getting accurate location data whileconserving device power.