Ryan Chase Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

New York, New York, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I did lots of things while at Amazon! Most notably, I led a team of engineers who worked on early concepts and implementations of the Echo Show, Echo Spot, and Echo Auto.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led the Android team from zero to launch in ninety days. - Guided the team through choosing helpful open source projects to increase our productivity, stability, and flexibility (i.e., Otto, Dagger, Robolectric, and Mockito). - Personally coded core networking classes, a large percentage of content management classes, most of the content creation classes (activities, fragments, and layouts). - Built out base classes for our suite of unit tests. - Introduced Maven to the team for project build automation and dependency management. - Set-up and configured continuous integration build server. - Mentored summer intern while continuing to lead the team to launch. - Quickly responded to bug reports, turned out fixes as soon as possible and shipped updates immediately.Worked directly with product management to ensure the application was meeting and/or exceeding their expectations. - Continually reviewed project requirements and expectations and adjusted the team’s priorities as needed. - Launched the Android application with more than the agreed-upon feature set.Helped the iOS team launch the company’s first mobile app. - Identified the most valuable events to track in the application. - Implemented all of the analytics tracking in the app, which included both client and server-side work. - Worked with the iOS team to identify and fix bugs leading up to the launch.

From product inception to launch, I led the development efforts of Sidecar for the Android platform, working on nearly every feature in the application. - Forked libjingle and compiled it against the Android NDK. - Defined and implemented all JNI integration points. - Identified ways to leverage XMPP to pass custom messages between clients and platforms. - Worked with the design team to define the user interface and interaction model. - Implemented group messaging and calling features for 1 to N communication. - Led the effort to identify, design, and flesh-out the necessary server-side APIs to support the goals of the application. - Guided the Android QA team to the most effective way of testing and identifying bugs.

Vienna, Vienna, At

Designed, developed, and launched Tupalo’s local search application for Android from zero to launch. - Architected and implemented server-side APIs required for the mobile applications to retrieve relevant business information for the mobile clients. - Used geolocation information to help users discover local businesses through keyword search, category search, and an augmented reality view.Led efforts to improve overall performance and scalability of the site. - Migrated the server codebase to leverage JRuby. - Identified and resolved configuration issues that were limiting the number of concurrent connections and ultimately turning users away during peak usage.

Designed and implemented a custom order-management system for a vinyl record manufacturing business. - Gathered and interpreted requirements from stakeholders to design and develop a web-based solution to fulfill and streamline business objectives from the ground up. - Designed and implemented complex data models to handle all data storage requirements. - Leveraged Aspect Oriented Programming techniques to capture events for logging and exception tracking without having to modify business-critical code. - Created multiple PDF and Excel reports that generated on-demand. - Used JavaMail APIs to send over a dozen different custom emails using Velocity Templates.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Identified the need for a new web service for music playback. - Designed and implemented new software that Rhapsody was able to leverage not only for the Flash-based playback on Rhapsody.com, but also for easy partner integration. Partner integrations included iLike and Yahoo! Music. - Developed software to easily scale across the server farm with minimal effort. - Used Java, Tomcat, JNDI, JMS, Spring (IOC/DI, AOP, MVC), ehcache, ibatis, SOAP, JSON, and XML-RPC. Worked directly with the Director of Product Management to design and prototype new and innovative features for Rhapsody. - Prototyped Rhapsody for Android on the G1. - Created a playlist builder in my spare time, which allowed users to quickly search the entire catalog and build a Flash-based player that could be embedded anywhere on the web. The editorial staff adopted the prototype to create playlists for the Rhapsody Editors’ blog. - Prototyped a real-time geographical playback monitor using IP geo-coding and Google Maps APIs to place actual song playback on a Google Map.Led and managed a distributed team of engineers in the design and development of the Music by Rhapsody for Facebook application from the ground up. - Worked directly with the SVP of Music Services to identify key features and functionality. - Determined the feature set and designed the user experience for the application. - Designed data models and database schema for the application. - Designed and implemented integration points with Rhapsody Direct Web Services, Facebook, and communication with our own Flash player. - Mentored junior developers in good design and testing methodologies.Worked as part of a small team to develop Rhapsody 4.0. - Worked on all aspects of the application development, from front-end UI to the data access layer. - Authored automated testing framework for internal QA organization in which hundreds of tests have been written against.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Worked with a team of engineers to develop an internal e-Commerce application and supporting systems for the Lab's institutional purchasing system, using technologies such as Hibernate, Spring, and Struts to build highly scalable applications. - Involved in development of all aspects of the applications, from HTML/JSP view design and implementation, to domain object design, to services layer architecture and coding of data access objects. - Developed MVC applications in a multi-tiered environment using Struts, while using Hibernate for the persistence mechanism and Spring for transaction management, all with an Oracle back-end. - Worked as part of a team to design and implement new database objects to meet new and constantly changing business requirements. - Managed the requirements-gathering, analysis, and prototyping of the Procurement & Material Self-Assessment System. - Worked directly with end-users and stakeholders to gather requirements and to solicit feedback about system design and implementation to ensure project success.

Livermore, Ca, Us

Developed business-critical reporting tools for the chemical inventory tracking system. - Developed a Java web application using Struts MVC architecture and custom tag libraries. - Managed software testing, including creating test plans, testing, and assisting in the release of updated applications. - Responsible for enhancing, modifying, and maintaining existing applications. - Designed and developed a Java application for Palm OS PDAs using Java 2 Micro Edition (CLDC/MIDP) to capture user input and allow for the upload of data to an Oracle database through a custom conduit. - Ported existing Oracle Forms and Reports 6i applications from a client/server architecture to run from an Oracle Application Server instance.