William Reed Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Ma, Us

- Served as the lead App Developer on Blink's first device accessory project, responsible for UI/UX feedback, Android implementation, and feedback on cross team interfaces (server & firmware)- Introduced the use of a Jenkins based CI/CD environment to automatically generate APKs and run unit tests- Designed and implemented a large scale app refactoring effort to streamline credential refreshing and network error handling, reducing crashes and bugs related to networking code.- Pioneered the use of Kotlin Coroutines to the team for our network and database layers and helped educate team members on appropriate usages, allowing for simpler asynchronous code- Developed a code generation library to streamline notification processing, reducing time spent on parsing Bundles

Boston, Ma

BusRight provides safe and efficient school bus transportation technology to students, parents and administrators across the country. As the lead / solo Android developer:- Developed a modularized Kotlin based Android client for the BusRight platform utilizing Android Architecture Components (Live Data, View Models, MVVM), RxJava, Firebase, et. al.- Managed release testing and deployment to BusRight's customers- Implemented features including viewing live bus locations, receiving notifications for approaching buses, CRUD operations on various entities, viewing route overviews (map / stop list) and driver turn by turn navigation (with location recording) among many othersAs a general software developer:- Developed numerous features in our React based web platform to complement the entire suite of BusRight products including persistent navigation bar across pages, various CRUD operations, hover tool tips and others- Developed a bus location simulator to better test the BusRight platform which involves simulating routes a bus would take and reporting its location and other information to the backend to replicate client devices

San Francisco, Ca

Worked as a member of the firmware group developing iRhythm's next generation cardiac monitoring device. The firmware developed was based on a bare state machine architecture written in C with an emphasis on strict reliability and battery saving optimizations.- Implemented watchdog functionality for the device to ensure device uptime during crucial patient wear periods- Developed firmware layer to interact with MCU encryption / decryption functionality- Furthered logging functionality of the firmware to support logging various run-time events to aid in debugging firmware issues- Formalized a framework for unit testing emphasizing support for function stubbing, mitigating the (often) painful process of unit testing- Ensured the persistence of partially complete data prior to entering a fatal error state for better understanding of issues when debugging

Boston, Ma

Contributed to various feature improvements, bug reports and fixes through the use of Java, Kotlin, and RxJava as a member of an infrastructure focused Android software teamIncreased reliability of low level device related metrics (CPU, memory, and disk usage) as well as transitioned a legacy logging systemDeveloped more robust solutions for our mobile feature flagging client through the use of RxJavaTransitioned excessive (Robolectric) integration tests to use pure (JUnit) unit tests to substantially shorten test run timeDeveloped feature improvements to the application versioning interface as well as developed SQL queries to efficiently manage thousands of restaurants on different versions of our software

Hauppauge, New York

Gained hands on experience through processing orders in all stages in the Distribution CenterUtilized PHP and SQL to upgrade the Client Lead Tracking intranet application as well as JQuery and Google Maps API to display locations and other information to sales representatives