Software Engineer in the Seattle area.
Experience
2022 — 2023
2018 — 2022
2018 — 2022
Seattle, Washington, United States
Initially focused on Android, and branched into a full stack role. Main areas of focus were developer productivity, build tools and testing across all disciplines in the company.
Lead mobile localization development for European launch
Migrated Android CI from Jenkins to Docker based cloud CI (Buildkite)
Built a backend Fixture Generation tool to create test data in development environments
Implemented Android React Native Development Environment for brownfield development
Created the project plan for Django 3 migration
Lead design of migrating staging access off of VPN for development
2015 — 2017
2015 — 2017
Seattle, Washington
Developed Nordstrom's Android shopping app on a pair programming team, and lead full-stack developer for analytics and store-related features.
Built an analytics pipeline that updated consuming service and generated versioned client-side code
Tech lead on store-related features which connect the mobile users to physical stores
Built server-side orchestration services for mobile features and analytic collection
Evangelized internal adoption of A/B Testing
Tech lead for overhaul of clickstream reporting
Studied, practiced and taught Lean methods: Value Stream Mapping, A3s/Kaizens, Cycle Time
2013 — 2015
2013 — 2015
Seattle, WA
Developed the 1st party Camera application for Kindle Tablets and Phone, and over the past 4 months I have taken on the lead iOS developer role for an unannounced project.
Extensive Java multi-threading experience using the following tools: Java Concurrent Library, Android Method Tracing and Java debugger.
Patent for techniques used to optimize perceived performance in Best Shot feature. This feature captures three images in the perceived time it takes to capture one.
Self taught iOS/Objective-C development to lead development of a new camera application.
Responsible for weekly usage and performance metrics analysis for Fire Phone Camera.
Mobile imaging: Android Camera API's, programmatic EXIF manipulation and image processing.
2012 — 2012
2012 — 2012
Seattle, WA
Built internal Feedback application and assisted Metrics, OTA and Logging team for the Fire Phone.
Feedback app included JIRA integration, which generated JIRA items with system logs for the corresponding development teams.
Contributed to sprint tasks and bug fixing for device side Metric, OTA and Logging libraries.
Education
University of Wisconsin
Bachelor of Science
2007 — 2013