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United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

• One of 2-5 mobile developers supporting the Blink Android app, with over 6 million downloads and over 3 million monthly active users. Blink specializes in consumer security cameras.• Independent initiatives led:- Decreasing the crash rate from 2% to 0.1%. Developed a crash intake process for both apps- Adding crash and error reporting to native video streaming library and leading efforts to resolve them- Creating a bug triaging process and weekly meeting to ensure bugs are actionable for developers- Updating 60+ libraries and developing a process to keep libraries updated monthly- Adding app support for new Android operating systems: 11-15- Replacing app-wide deprecations. For example, “onBackPressed” and synthetic bindings- Developing a unit testing architecture and process. Line coverage increase from 0% to 40% in 1 year.- Developing a UI testing architecture and process. (Espresso)- Writing and getting approval for responses to app reviews- Writing and maintaining android architecture documents for the app's data layer• Major features developed:- Clip List redesign tech lead- Scrum guide and android developer for in-app subscription attach and camera snooze features• Other roles:- Primary android code reviewer- Cutting and releasing monthly app updates- Interviewer (over 50 interviews)

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Member of the 5-person cross-platform team that developed the local storage clip list and USB clip backup for home security camera recordings, features used by over 20% of Blink’s active users• Founded weekly triage meeting for the ~50+ Android tickets created each week• Architected app's event tracking system• Developed biometric unlock for both the Android and iOS Blink apps• Refactored camera connection code using coroutines to handle error cases better, work with different Android OS versions, and expand easily for new cameras. Connection success rate stayed >98%• Tech initiatives included: developing an architecture to nest nav-graphs within one activity, adding ktlint to CI/CD, switching from synthetic bindings to view bindings, and updating 60+ libraries

Boston, Ma, Us

• Founder of the company's weekly Kotlin challenge• Created and taught an Android development course for dagger injection and state retention• Taught courses on the VIPER architecture, UI, and unit testing• General practitioner and surgeon for top app crashes; maintaining a ~99.7% crash-free session rate• Added the app’s first: near-field communication functionality, barcode generator, new user onboarding experience, and deferred deep-linking functionality (navigating to an in-app destination after download)• Expanded the app's augmented reality experience to add and delete products from the same scene• Fixed complicated asynchronous loading bugs in startup and navigation• Refactored entire push notification layer, adding safer threading and Kotlin benefits for more than a hundred thousand daily push notificationsKeywords – Kotlin, Android Development, Java, Dagger, RxJava, Coroutines, Retrofit, XML, Agile, JIRA, push notifications, deep-linking, ARCore, barcode generation, VIPER, JUnit, Mockito

• Created two Kibana dashboards for reporting payout trends with Apache Pig and Javascript plugins• Team awarded by an Information Technology V.P. for “a successful delivery of solution and focusing on the bigger win of team, reuse, platform, and drive”Keywords – Agile, Apache Pig, Angular JS, Javascript, Kibana, ElasticSearch

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, History

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