Abraham Joshua Heschel High School

Cornell University

Software Engineer at Google

New York, New York, United States

I'm a product manager working on tools for the podcast ecosystem.

Google

Product Manager

I worked on the Google Podcasts Android app. Previously worked on campaign management in AdWords.

Software Engineer

Worked on the CDC deployment that helps analyze food-borne disease outbreaks in real time and identify the source.

Built a widget that can read and write tabular data to an agnostic datastore and integrated it into Palantir’s web product.

During hackweek created a HipChat integration with our internal stack overflow to archive conversations around an engineer’s question.

Palantir Technologies

Forward Deploy Engineer Intern

The team, which is composed of designers and developers, collaboratively builds an app from scratch every semester that we plan to publish to the App Store and open source.

As VP of product I’m responsible for conceptualizing each app, managing the design/engineering execution to ensure the teams are coordinated, and help lead the club with the other VPs.

As a more experienced developer I will also help mentor other members on good code style, patterns, and best practices.

Cornell App Development (CUAppDev)

VP of Product

As a member of the PopShop executive team I find opportunities for the organization to expand its reach on campus, organize events, and help manage our co-working space. I also advise the student run startups working in our space.

Popshop

Popshop Manager

Facilitate and solicit new relations with venture capital firms to create a robust pipeline of projects for the club.

Manage five project managers and over twenty analysts, ensure all members are happy and engaged, maintain the quality of work we have produced in the past, and push the club to new heights in the future.

Lead partnerships with other entrepreneurial organizations on campus like the Popshop and the Big Red Venture Fund.

Responsible for recruiting new members in the club and expanding our presence on campus.

Cornell Venture Capital

President

Co-architected FLayout with two other interns and wrote the implementation for iOS. FLayout is a framework which renders page layouts (hence FLayout) sent down by the server in a JSON object dynamically on the client using native views. A FLayout is a JSON object that can be sent down from the server that describes the layout for a view. Once a client receives a FLayout it parses it into a view model which it then uses to create a native view. Since all of this FLayout logic is already written any part of the app can be updated instantly simply by downloading a new FLayout. By separating the layout logic from the client to the server we can allow designers to mock up changes to the app in real time, create a web editor for our advertising partners to edit their ads, and other previously impossible feats because we didn’t have a way of dynamically updating views. The other major advantage of moving the layout logic from a custom implementation on each client into the server is that we can share it between the iOS and Android apps while maintaining native views on both platforms. Thus views will only have to be architected once, will be rendered natively so there isn’t a performance hit, and will look identical. The framework was designed to be extendable, reusable, yet powerful. We hope to eventually open source it.

Re-wrote how the app handles crashes due to hitting assert statements while in beta distribution. In order to track bugs related to these “sanity checks” the app used to have to crash in order for HockeyApp (our crash reporting service) to capture the state of the bug. But I figured out a way of generating a custom crash report that captured the state of the bug, getting HockeyApp to upload as if it was a report they generated, all without crashing the app.

Built custom notifications for iOS 8.

Created all of the empty state views for social and sharing actions.

Fixed various bugs and set off the fire alarm once.

Flipboard Inc.

iOS Intern

I write a bi-monthly blog in the Cornell Daily Sun about startups and entrepreneurship.

Cornell Daily Sun

Tech Blogger

I created a dynamic and interactive graph built in D3 (a javascript library) to demonstrate how Shelby.tv aggregates videos from across your social networks and friends.

I implemented Facebook direct messaging in Shelby's share pane.

I created a friend ranking algorithm using Facebook Graph so Shelby can send out targeted invites to the people you're most likely to share videos with.

I worked on the web development team focusing on feature improvements and bugs in the Ruby on Rails platform.

Shelby.tv

Development Intern

Led a project for a VC firm that explored what areas in the P2P market are critical for future growth for the space.

Led a project for a NEA portfolio company that analyzed expanding their product offering through opening boutiques.

Reviewed 2 startups a week for Excell Partners and played a key role in the decision process for seed investment.

Senior Project Manager

I worked to create a facial detection algorithm to see if there were people in their profile shots in RelSci's databases.

I implemented the OpenCalais API on RelSci's backend so researchers could have an easier time data mining.

Relationship Science

Over the course of two summers I worked on two research projects under the direction of Professor Ken Perlin.

The first project was creating a multitouch tabletop display for use in public middle school classrooms. We used a $20 webcam to track hockey pucks on the table so multiple students could interact with the STEM simulation being demoed at once.

The second summer I worked on creating a immersive augmented 3D reality setup. I implemented 3D sound for the system, wrote some gesture tracking software, and helped calibrate the 3D tracking of the user.

Tsvi Tannin