Tufts University

University of Central Florida

Software Engineer at Heap

Orlando, Florida, United States

Heap

Software Engineer

UniKey Technologies

Lead Mobile Engineer

- Provide technical direction for creating a new SDK for residential partners (e.g., Kwikset) and assist in implementation+ Help improve and maintain a React Native application for our digital key backup solution (called “KeyHero”)+ Support partners who are building on top of our SDKs with via support calls, emails, and documentation

Lead Android Engineer

- Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy.+ Develop new products and enhance existing products.+ Understand customer needs and gather product requirements.+ Create FAQs, presentations, and white papers that can be used by sales to answer product questions and close deals. More generally, support marketing/accounts/sales efforts to put customers in the “appropriate box”.+ Engage closely with the engineering team to help determine the best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule.+ Identify and mitigate the following risks through internal prototyping and through encouraging partners to launch early and/or prototype themselves:    + value risk - will users actually find the product valuable?    + usability risk - can the users figure out how to use the product?     + feasibility risk - is this product technically feasible?     + viability risk - whether this solution also works for the various aspects of our business+ Ensure the organization understands the product choices we’re making (competitive silver bullets, tough architectural choices, tough product decisions, markets to attack or yield) by collecting and sharing usage data and by sharing key parts of customer conversations, either in written or verbal form.

Product Manager

- Built smart lock application that gave users access to office buildings and office building admins the ability to configure smart locks+ Built smart lock SDK for use by external partners+ Built new features and fixed bugs in the Kwikset Kevo application+ Setup Jenkins CI for Android projects and aided in setting up CI for iOS projects+ Build React Native smart lock applications on top of our SDK+ Helped create an onboarding site for new employees+ Ran monthly lightning talks+ Co-Created company training program for software engineers

Sr. Software Engineer, Mobile

Starter Studio is a 3-month incubator for startups. Ultimately, I decided that my idea (and the ideas related to it) didn't have legs. Along the way, however, I:+ Performed ~50 customer interviews for attempting to validate product ideas+ Launched 2 landing page experiments (Html/Css/Bootstrap/Hugo), one of which received 10k views in the first month and the other which had ~40% conversation rate. Between these two sites, I grew an email list to ~300 members. + Prototyped an Android Studio plugin that delivered Android-development-related educational content using Electron (Javascript/Node) and the Intellij Plugin SDK (Java). Prototyped a basic payment server (Javascript/Node) using the Stripe SDK that was deployed on Heroku.+ Attended workshops on customer development, financial models, pitching, business model canvas, and content marketing.+ Worked with mentors on business strategy

Starter Studio

Starter

I participated in a 3 month educational program for software engineers. While at the Recurse Center I studied:+ Functional Programming+ Compilers+ Javascript/React/Redux+ CSS+ HTML/Web Components+ "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" (by Michael Feathers)

Recurse Center

Spring 2, 2016

- Performed code reviews for international team of Android and iOS Developers+ Added new features and fixed bugs for GotChosen Android application+ Aided in creating signed iOS builds of GotChosen iOS application+ Aided in publishing Android applications to Google Play Store

GotChosen, Inc.

Mobile Application Consultant

- Built internal tools that integrated with our CI server using the iOS SDK (Swift) and Spring (Java)+ Worked on internal tools for managing company devices (Angular + Go)+ Built internal tools for project management using Capybara (Ruby), Go, and Angular 2 (Typescript)+ Managed Jenkins CI server for iOS projects and node projects+ Wrote automated acceptance tests using Cucumber (Ruby and Javascript implementations)+ Co-Presented company projects to top-level executives

Walt Disney World

Software Engineer (Contract)

- Helped build GotChosen's Social Exchange Android app + Utilized libraries like RxJava, Dagger (1.x), Retrofit, Butterknife, and Picasso + Interfaced with RESTful backend + Setup TeamCity CI Server for automated Android builds+ Helped promote company by speaking at various meetups and barcamps in Orlando.

Android Developer

At Echo, I developed iOS and Android applications. I also set up the company's CI server and internal maven repository.

Echo Interaction Group

Android/iOS Developer

Built the company's automated testing process. This involved:+Researching and selecting a test automation framework+Creating automated tests with Testdroid Recorder and Robotium automated testing framework+Customizing the Robotium testing framework to fit company needs+Integrating Automated Tests with a Jenkins CI Server+Creating a website that used Jenkins REST API to publish test results and build artifacts.Misc Android Development Tasks:+Created a library that mimics Android's StorageAccessFramework UI and API

IDEAL Technology Corporation

Android Developer (Internship)

- Helped build Android applications+Created a library that creates and maintains a local copy of a <a href="http://Parse.com">Parse.com</a> database on an Android device

- coached ethics bowl teams on how to develop and present creative and effective solutions to moral problems-led presentations and facilitated discussion on ethical theories and case studies-organized an ethics bowl for undergraduates students

K. Dupree