Personal Projects

Employer Projects

Descript 2018 - present

Full-Stack Developer

Available at https://www.descript.com

Descript spun out of Detour after its acquisition by Bose.

Responsibilities

My responsibilities stretch across all of Descript's tech stack:

• Web & desktop app (Windows & Mac OS) written in TypeScript, using React & Electron
• Audio & video media engine library written in C++ using GStreamer. Cross platform, runs on Linux, Windows & Mac OS
• Node.js backend written in Hapi

Detour 2016 - 2018

iOS / Full-Stack Developer

Acquired by Bose Corporation in April, 2018

Accolades: App Store Best of 2016, Apple Editors’ Choice, App of the Day (1/15/18)

Originally hired as an iOS engineer, I grew to take on projects across Detour's entire technical stack.

Product & User-facing features

• Created the deferred deep linking program that allowed us to partner with various companies (Airbnb, SFMOMA, Nike)
• Prototype algorithmic video generation incorporating user generated content (photos and location tags)
• Built system allowing for sophisticated push notification & email campaign strategies while respecting user privacy

Android

• Supported our Android contractor in building features & releasing the first version of the Android app
• Maintained the build & fixed bugs until we hired a full time Android developer

API

• Worked with my engineering manager to develop the 2nd version of our API using Hapi (Node.js)
• Helped establish the architecture, best practices, and unit test framework
• Led or participated in architecting a more scalable backend

Data & Analytics

• Worked with my engineering manager to add analytics to the pipeline
• Wrote the project's technical documentation
• Built a reporting endpoint that partners could query to access their data
• Took ownership of the ETL pipeline and worked to reduce costs by over 2/3

Process

• Automated iOS build & TestFlight process using Fastlane
• Created our Heroku build pipelines, improved error reporting & availability monitoring, and worked to reduce cost
• Worked closely with our first QA engineer to establish a QA process

Web

• Added features and fixed bugs on our React + Redux websites (both user-facing website and internal CMS website)

My projects varied depending on the needs of the company, but were roughly 80% iOS, 15% API, 2.5% Android, 2.5% Web

General Assembly 2016 - present

Part-time iOS Teacher

I was a teaching assistant for the first nightly iOS Development class in General Assembly's San Francisco office. Responsibilities included helping students during class, holding office hours twice a week, replying to student questions on Slack throughout the week, and grading homework. Additionally, since this was the first class, I also worked with the other teachers to improve the curriculum for future classes. Since then, I have stayed involved in the community by being a substitute teaching assistant and mentor for various students.

String Theory 2015

Lead iOS Developer

I initially worked as a part-time freelancer for String Theory prior to becoming the full-time lead developer. I mentored 4 junior team members, led architecture discussions, and transitioned the app from a prototype into a production app.

IDEO 2014

Lead iOS Developer

I worked as the lead developer in the IDEO Toy Lab. I was responsible for building new apps, maintaining existing apps, managing contractors, and mentoring interns. Below are some of the apps that I worked on.

OpenTable 2013-2014

iOS Developer

I was the second hire for the new GuestCenter team. Working closely with designers, product managers, and customers, we built the GuestCenter app from an idea to a live product.

Mobiquity 2011-2013

iOS Developer

I worked as an iOS developer on various client projects, spending the majority of my time on the Weight Watchers team.

Writing

Medium

I write about design and development topics here on Medium.

Open Source

Contributions

Electron & libuv

Led a team of 2 other developers to fix a major performance issue in libuv & Electron that affected macOS Big Sur.

Vapor Documentation

Improved the Vapor technical documentation

CommandLine

Added Swift 4 support

Self Published

Xcode Build Tagger August 2015

A Ruby gem to assist versioning and git tagging your Xcode builds. Read the article about it here.

PATchwork Layout March 2014

A UICollectionViewLayout subclass that creates a patchwork style grid.

Facebook Test Users Utility July 2013

A Node.js utility to create, read, update, and delete Facebook test users for your Facebook application.

Resume

My resume is available here.