University of California, Berkeley

iOS engineer

Apple

iOS Engineer on SpringBoard

- Oversaw architectural direction, fostered high code quality, lead team meetings, scheduled features and bug-fixing, and managed bi-weekly releases for the 6-person team building both iOS and macOS apps• Lead full-stack teams of 5 people to design, implement, and ship features across client apps and backend services, focused on improving the uploading system, including adopting iOS background transfer• Wrote major portions of the iOS app in Swift, including the upload subsystem and complex UI

Upthere

iOS Tech Lead

- Helped the team adopt Swift over the past two years, including leading sessions to teach team members• Set up and owned the build system and Jenkins CI, with a one-click full-release script written in Swift• Enhanced the build process and application resource-handling code to easily create white-label versions of the app; coordinated with SanDisk engineers to ship apps under their brand• Wrote key parts of the iOS camera app in Objective-C, including custom viewfinder UI and image capture

Senior Software Engineer, iOS

- Hightail acquired Found Software in January 2013• Built a preview generation system for all files sent by the 50 million users, with a custom Java system for processing distributed work on a cluster of machines• Spearheaded an effort to run the complete server environment in a local VM, using Vagrant and Chef

Hightail - formerly YouSendIt

Senior Software Engineer

- Wrote the entire personal search Mac OS X app, with fully custom UI, background processes, and sandboxed it for the Mac App Store, where it reached #1 in Top Free charts• Owned the entire build system, Jenkins continuous "integration, and the release process• Built a prototype iOS app that connected to the Mac app and showed search results with full previews• Wrote a server-side app in Ruby/Sinatra to control release availability and collect crash reports

Found Software

Software Engineer

- Led the team of 4 engineers and 2 UX designers that created the iPad app, which reached #3 in Top Free charts, including writing novel features such as custom drag-and-drop UI• Wrote a custom Mac OS X Installer.app plugin to seamlessly download the latest version of the app on-demand• Maintained the Jenkins CI system and wrote scripts to automate the localization process

Sonos, Inc.

- Designed, built, conducted, and analyzed the results from experiments involving plasma physics.* Wrote a GUI program using Objective-C/Cocoa to compile Fortran code (using g77), run the resulting executable for various input parameters, process the output, and produce plots with gnuplot.* Wrote scripts in Ruby to perform automated data analysis and processing.* Responsible for IT setup, maintenance, and support for the entire company of 15 people, with computers running both Windows XP and Mac OS X.* Became proficient with UHV-range vacuum hardware and high-voltage experimental apparatus, and designed parts for use in these environments.* Responsible for an experiment series run at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.* Designed and built pulsed power and high voltage electrical circuits to run and test the experiments.* Used end-mill, lathe, drill press, etc. to build parts for the experiments.

Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation

Associate Scientist

Worked with manufacturing engineers to improve existing manufacturing tools and equipment.

Meyer Sound

Manufacturing Engineering Intern

Designed parts for prototype mechanical systems involving high-frequency vibrations, including mounting precision optics.  Supported test engineers by setting up and running tests for satellite hardware.