Saint Joseph's College

Suffolk County Community College

I founded this company to primarily release a few iOS apps I’ve been working on. I also take on contractual software development work for clients

WordCraft Apps Inc.

Founder

> Led the Artist Access initiative, enabling artists to manage their Listening Party. This streamlined scheduling for artists, making it more efficient to schedule parties without depending on the marketing team. This work enabled 90+ artists to host virtual parties, giving 20K+ fans a unique opportunity to interact with their favorite artists.
> Owned discovery of integrating Listening Parties (LPs) into the main iOS app. This enabled the team to launch a passive listening experience for LPs by expanding the total audience for each party, contributing to a 444% average in users saving an Artist to their library and a 37% increase in streams over the month.
> Built a community among iOS engineers across 6 teams, as iOS Chapter lead for the tribe. I facilitated discussions around struggles we faced, helped identify overlap between teams, and encouraged code reviews across the org. 
> Worked closely with leadership on quarterly planning by creating detailed implementation plans that translated Objectives & Key Results (OKRs) that I owned into deliverable milestones, sequenced by dependencies, and refined into user stories. I improved the planning process within my product area, mentored, and created guidelines for composing quarterly plans. 
> Project lead for Digital Goods (using In-App Purchases) within Listening Parties. I proposed and iterated on project plans and high-level architecture, working with product, design, and user researchers to identify key value drivers and understand operational and financial trade-offs.
> Planned and led total refactor of the profile editor tools in Spotify For Artists (S4A) iOS app. Coordinated and delegated work among a team of three that I managed. Re-architected to use an event-driven pattern to align with the standardization initiative of Mobile Development at Spotify, ultimately decreasing development time around testing and building new features in S4A.

Spotify

Senior iOS Engineer

> Developed an offers aggregator for loyalty microservices, integrating with upstream services using Java. This system was used to incentivize new and existing diners (users) to place first-time orders and to place larger orders with restaurants. 
> Created and executed a load test plan to evaluate load shedding parameters and determine the baseline and scale of instances required to run optimally. Used results to modify kubernetes deployment configuration; this reduced operating costs and optimized request latency to meet our SLA.

Grubhub

Senior Software Engineer

> Implemented foundational features and made significant performance enhancements in our daily CRM Spark job, reducing runtime by half and decreasing operating costs. 
> Architected and led the development of the Refer a Friend service and related EMR jobs; coordinated this project between marketing, data science, and engineering teams. This work evolved into a successful user acquisition channel.

Data Engineer

> Architected carting, deeplink, and performance monitoring infrastructure; led a major iOS refactor to introduce bottom navigation. 
> Built out performance monitoring infrastructure within the app. Using the resulting analytic data, I proposed and executed on a plan to decrease page load times and decrease cold start time of. This contributed to an increase in conversions by decreasing the number of users that close the app prematurely.
> Worked on migration of the app from Objective-C to Swift; implemented automated UI tests in coordination with the QA team to ensure feature correctness. This paved the way for much faster feature development using a modern language; ultimately reduced time spent debugging legacy bugs as the app grew and matured. 
> Developed an iMessage app prototype, winning second place in Grubtank (company-wide “SharkTank” competition).

iOS Engineer

• Built a mobile location sharing app alongside my co-founder and designer.
• Presented at TechCrunch Disrupt and shortly after released Pull beta in the iOS App Store.
• Ran a public beta release in the App Store.

Pull Software, LLC.

Co Founder / CTO

• Created several white-label iOS apps from start to finish, including a payment terminal app and a hospitality
app.
• Implemented a wrapper for the company’s payment processing APIs to facilitate taking payments with the
apps.
• Created a web-based solution to quickly setup credit card terminals.

DishOut

Lead mobile developer

• Maintained and added features to a filtered web browser app.
• Worked mobile device management.
• Developed and began implementing a prototype for a REST API in Python to configure the app.

Bascom

iOS Developer

• Worked with JQuery and C# to perform testing and debugged issues as they arose.

Intelligent Product Solutions

Intern

• Internship where I worked alongside my mentor to develop the iPhone app for TomTom Taxi. 
• Worked with Objective-C and version control (git), and created automated tests.
• Gained experience working with a development team at a startup.

Chris M.