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San Bruno, CA, US

Mountain View, CA, US

Working on projects that modernize the YouTube iOS app on the Core iOS team.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Worked on the Google Photos iOS app and the Snapseed iOS app.
• Implemented Photo Stacks for the Google Photos iOS app: https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/15/google-photos-turns-to-ai-to-organize-and-categorize-your-photos-for-you/
• Experimented extensively on onboarding flows, sharing, promotion algorithms, and pricing promos; increasing Google Photos’ user onboarding rate significantly.

LycheeApps Inc. develops the WindCheck app for pilots and Early Words for kids, as well as provides consulting services for mobile development.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Developed new features for the Square iOS point-of-sale, on the Payments team.Led the development of:
• The Payment Disputes project for the iOS point-of-sale.
• The Account Freeze project for the iOS point-of-sale.
• More projects...

San Francisco, CA, US

• Led the restaurant iOS team at Yelp Reservations, building the iPad app used by restaurants to manage their floor, waiters and reservations.
• Worked in Swift / Objc, mentored new hires, talked to customers and across Yelp teams to design a technical roadmap.

Zurich, Zurich, CH

• Picked up old iOS app and refactored it, re-designed the interface and UX from scratch, using Objective-C, Swift.
• Planned and implemented new features increasing company revenue and customer satisfaction.
• Setup unit tests, UI tests, continuous integration with OS X Server, push notifications using AWS SNS
• Backend in NodeJS/MongoDB on Heroku, and C#/ASP.NET/MSSQL on AWS
• Created the company's first developer internship program: found, interviewed, hired and supervised ten interns over the course of a year, one of them hired full time.
• Worked with designers, copyrighters, legal, backend teams, product, marketing and company executives.https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-ahead-tour-companion/id870744208?mt=8

Zurich, Zurich, CH

• Wrote backend software in C# for the Go Ahead Tours booking system on an ASP.NET stack, frontend in Typescript. Created features enabling sales teams to manage customers and make bookings.
• Re-coded the physical mail generation software from scratch responsible for generating over 80 types of different mailings, enabling testability and reporting, improving robustness and maintainability.
• Designed a whole new postage system allowing mailroom staff to buy the cheapest postage for our customers, automating many processes thus saving hundreds of yearly man hours and thousands of dollars in postage fees..

Founded Studifi, a collaboration platform and full learning management system (LMS) for K12 and Higher Ed. Raised $100k in funding and had software piloted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Brown University, Bentley University, Boston University, Hong Kong University, and more. Wrote the backend and fronted, hired and managed the engineers.

• Developed a new product prototype which rewards users for visiting merchant websites.
• Created a FireFox plugin using XUL, which displayed a point balance and would send user data to an API written in NodeJS and storing it in a MongoDB
• Implemented the backend and a UI for managing the product as well as for users to download the plugin and view their point balance.

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

• Graded programming assignments for the graduate Networks course
• Organized C/Linux help sessions

Madrid, ES

• Implemented features allowing travel agents to manage and re-use unused airline tickets
• Designed the UI and backend
• "Raised the bar for the quality of UI at Amadeus" according to Alex Candelas, Head of UX at Amadeus
• Developed with Java and Javascript on a GWT (Google Web Toolkit) stack

Hong Kong, China, HK

Implemented a participation mapping plugin in Moodle, representing student interactions online, visit www.bushgrapher.org

• Implemented a tool that analyzed raw text and generated ebooks in multiple languages. The system generated the markup by detecting titles, paragraphs, lists, links and more. Ebooks were stored in XML. A table of.
• All software was written on a LAMP stack.
• Designed and implemented the front-end and back-end of an ebook viewer that would allow viewing such ebooks, navigating through the different parts and comparing ebooks in multiple languages.
• Implemented a mass emailing tool with unsbuscription and blacklisting features.
• Implemented misc website administration tools and maintained hardware.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Master Of Arts (Ma), Computer Science & It Entrepreneurship

Baccalaureate, Science