Carnegie Mellon University

UC San Diego

iOS Engineering Manager

San Mateo, California, United States

The goal of the Mobile team is to provide the best user experience and be the best platform for our customers on the go. Things I strive for:

-  Create a sustainable team culture that embraces Agile principles
-  Our product ethos is to ship early and often; continuously get feedback, iterate and improve
-  Mentor and guide engineers through transparency by providing feedback often. In terms of what's going well and what could be improved, nothing should ever be a surprise

Verkada

Led the Mobile team of Alexa Smart Home Cameras to deliver 3P integrations with Alexa including live streaming and doorbell customizations.

-  Designed end to end App Live View, a feature that allows customers to view their Alexa-connected cameras from the Alexa App.
-  Designed internal Alexa API to let GUI interface with Alexa Services backend and make use of existing services that use the Alexa.RTCSessionController Interface to setup a WebRTC session with 1P/3P cameras.
-  Wrapped a native C++ library in Objective-C++ to make the API easier to use in iOS development. This library is used in all Alexa enabled devices and is used to set up a WebRTC session using Alexa.RTCSessionController.
-  Developed React Native GUI components for Smart Alerts enabling customers to opt in to receive CV alerts when a person is detected on camera devices.
-  Developed React Native GUI to integrate Ring devices with Alexa by playing Doorbell/Motion Announcement Notifications and also customize chime sound played.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

- Developed Core Bluetooth functionality and a new user experience UI in the Tile app for enabling Tile integration with the Bose SoundSport Wireless and QuietControl 30 headphones.
-  Designed and developed an iOS Mobile SDK for partners to integrate Tile functionality into their own applications; interfaced with partners to help onboard and integrate our SDK.
-  Led a small team of iOS and Android engineers to deliver a customized version of the SDK to a Ride Sharing partner to solve the lost phones in vehicles use case. Developed and presented a demo, which led to delivering a technical design document and ultimately the SDK itself.
-  Led technical design discussions, sprint retrospective and planning meetings; prioritized features to drive the 1.0 release of the SDK.

Tile

Senior Software Engineer

Created several iOS apps featured in the App Store and ranked in the top 100 apps in several categories

Mixatron App
-  Started as a passionate idea I had for a hackathon and continued working on it afterwards to release it as a full fledged polished app.
-  Developed a real time video rendering engine using Core Image and AVFoundation.
-  Featured on the front page of the App Store and also the Photo & Video category.
-  <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixatron-by-funny-or-die-remix/id1104484499?mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mixatron-by-funny-or-die-remix/id1104484499?mt=8</a>

Pitch App
-  An internal app used for creative writing, which quickly built the worlds largest pool of comedy writers.
-  Used to generate content on social media such as:
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/videos/vb.17614953850/10154021114333851">https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/videos/vb.17614953850/10154021114333851</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/videos/vb.17614953850/10154279045398851">https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/videos/vb.17614953850/10154279045398851</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/videos/vb.17614953850/10154134863593851">https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie/videos/vb.17614953850/10154134863593851</a>
-  Implemented push notifications using Parse Server.
-  Implemented the web app using React and Redux.

Dips App
-  Developed a social video app that we iterated and pivoted on multiple times. Also wrote the server code running on Parse Server and eventually migrated it on to our own AWS instance.
-  <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dips-by-funny-or-die-daily/id981028188?mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dips-by-funny-or-die-daily/id981028188?mt=8</a>

Funny Or Die App
-  Redesigned the flagship app and rewrote everything from scratch using Swift (while it was still in beta!).
-  Contributed to open source projects during development (<a href="https://github.com/HighBay/PageMenu">https://github.com/HighBay/PageMenu</a>).
-  Featured on the front page of the App Store.
-  <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funny-or-die/id299546679?mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funny-or-die/id299546679?mt=8</a>

Funny Or Die Weather App
-  Maintained existing code and also developed a Today Extension and Apple Watch app.
-  <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funny-or-die-weather.-real/id943270323?mt=8">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funny-or-die-weather.-real/id943270323?mt=8</a>

-  Organized quarterly tech talks with free food.

Funny Or Die

iOS Developer

Target Corporation (July 2014 – December 2014)
-  Developed several parts of Target’s new iPad application including the new homepage and weekly ad.
-  Defined and enforced Objective-C coding standards to improve code quality - <a href="https://github.com/paulsfds/objective-c-style-guide">https://github.com/paulsfds/objective-c-style-guide</a>
-  Defined the process to add code including writing a guide on how to merge and rebase using git - <a href="https://github.com/paulsfds/git-merge-workflow">https://github.com/paulsfds/git-merge-workflow</a>

The Climate Corporation (December 2013 – June 2014)
-  Implemented an upgrade mechanism for a paid premium feature and improved existing dashboard and weather data pages.
-  Full stack development; Implemented API endpoints in Ruby on Rails and Sinatra to provide data to a Backbone.js frontend.

Audi of America (September 2013 – December 2013)
-  Developed critical features during phase 2 of a pilot iPad app for Audi of America to help increase sales at the dealership level.
-  Implemented new features based on UX specifications such as an in app browser and a PDF reader using Auto Layout.
-  Collaborated with Audi to integrate Mobile Iron, an enterprise mobile security framework to provide user/device authentication and personalization.

Internal Project (June 2013 – September 2013)
-  Lead development of upgrading Flipout! (iOS game) from version 1.0 to 2.0 to increase monetization and user retention.
-  Revamped the in app purchase experience, added new graphics and improved animations using the UIKit framework.

-  Organized weekly tech talks to increase knowledge sharing within the company. Helped speakers with topic ideas, presentation skills, and feedback. Ordered trendy lunches to keep employees happy.
-  Planned company social outings including happy hours, Halloween party, holiday party and volunteer events.

Grio

Software Engineer

- Developed a Content Management System (CMS) using Ruby on Rails to manage all of IGN's game data. Practiced agile methodologies including test first programming and pair programming.
-  Created several authentication related Ruby gems (including an OmniAuth strategy) that were shared across several internal CMSes.
-  Worked in a small team to set an example for other teams on agile practices to improve team productivity and code quality.

IGN Entertainment

- Developed and maintained web applications using Ext GWT to modernize the Navy's planning and tasking activities.
-  Developed a web service in Java to expose and interact with an XML database using XQuery.
-  Helped develop a messaging framework to push data to the client using CometD/JavaScript; enabled automatic client side updates from the server.
-  Setup build server using Hudson to increase team productivity through continuous integration.
-  Developed server side logic using JDBC to interface with a MySQL database.
-  Implemented RESTful based web services utilizing the Restlet framework.
-  Helped maintain satellite command and telemetry data transformation software for the United States Air Force to prepare for the launching of satellites.

Paul Wong

Paul Wong