Part of Instagram's Friend Sharing Product Engineering team (Stories, Notes, Sharing)

Part of NPE. Creating new mobile experiences and product lines from scratch

Rapid fire app building to test out startup ideas and see what succeeds

• Trending - A news and top stories app, that collects news stories and comments from top news sources

• Alma - Chatroom and forum mobile app for students (reddit and chat clone for students)

• Storyfun - A children’s story book app, with premium and subscription services, and revenue generating

• Lofi_Cafe - A LoFi social music streaming app, where users can create their own playsets by combining music and video loops, and share them to the community

Tech stack used: Java backend, realtime messaging, content and media streaming (both audio and video), Objective-C and Swift on the native clients

* Architect for the iOS Radio feature, and working on recommendations/discovery and other undisclosed projects.

* Developed the Genius feature for the iOS platform

* Developed the Music Lyrics feature for the Japanese Market

* Helping on building up the mobile team from two people in the US to over a dozen

* Spearheading new projects on the way music is consumed and make Spotify appealing to the casual/zero-intent users.

* Provisory Filings (full patents pending in both US and the EU):

1. EXTRACTING AN EXCERPT FROM A MEDIA OBJECT- Find Meaningful Moments in a Song.

2. PLAYBACK OF AN UNENCRYPTED PORTION OF AN AUDIO STREAM - Unencrypted track starters for fast playback and seeking on the initial portion of a track.

Headed the development of the iPhone version of Threadflip, which was featured on the App Store's Lifestyle category.