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Work Experience

• iOS Engineer, Apple

  Jul, 2022 - Present

  On the Wallet and Apple Pay team, I develop and maintain our digital identity services and APIs, including Verify with Wallet and ID Verifier.

• Senior Software Engineer, Twitter

  Aug, 2021 - Jul, 202211 months

  Contributed towards launch of the Super Follows program on iOS, allowing creators to earn money from their largest fans. Worked on modularization and code cleanup efforts. Shipped a health-related feature and collaborated with the Spaces team on Super Follows Spaces.

• Software Engineer 2, Microsoft

  Dec, 2016 - Aug, 20214 years 8 months

  [Microsoft Outlook]
  I worked on calendar and time management features (such as appointment scheduling). I also led calendar and mail notifications work, solving high-stakes problems with duplicate notifications and payload decryption issues. I was a mentor to new teammates and a summer intern who later received and accepted a return offer.

  [Microsoft To Do]
  I joined post-acquisition Wunderlist team and worked on iOS/macOS clients for the upcoming product replacement. I built features like file attachments and list sharing to help reach parity with Wunderlist. I convinced leadership to ship our existing, native AppKit-powered macOS app over a potential web wrapper to meet Microsoft's strict accessibility standards. Highly proficient in integrating with Apple's assistive technology such as VoiceOver on both iOS and macOS. I mentored two iOS summer interns. (Microsoft Berlin did not have an official engineering internship program.)

• Software Engineer, Shutterstock

  Nov, 2015 - Dec, 20161 year 1 month

  Worked on the contributor (seller) and consumer (buyer) apps for stock photography as a part of a distributed team between the New York and Berlin timezones. Both apps leveraged Core Data for persistence and in-memory caching. I added support for multi-process data flows (e.g. using group containers and user default suites) which enabled me to write a Siri (Intents) extension to search for stock photography, as well as a Share extension for uploading high-resolution imagery asynchronously to be sold on-platform.

• Software Engineer, Facebook

  Jan, 2014 - Sep, 20151 year 8 months

  Worked on Rooms mobile codebase and Parse SaaS backend scripts. Focused on building novel interactions, animations and interfaces using Origami Studio and an internal framework that became the open-sourced POP library. Later I became a core team member of React Native, contributing to the framework's open-source readiness. I wrote iOS Native Module registration, which allows JS code to call into native Objective-C/Swift code through the RN bridge via RCT_EXPORT_MODULE.

• Lead Mobile Engineer, Branch

  Aug, 2013 - Jan, 20145 months

  Wrote the mobile iOS client for Potluck, a link-sharing social network enabling friends to discuss online content. Used the MVC design pattern to build a practical, simple yet beautiful app. Wrote a customizable design system that allowed designers to tweak values both in code and in storyboard Ul files in real-time.

• hackNY Internship, Foursquare

  May, 2013 - Aug, 20133 months

  My summer project involved updating the iOS client app to incorporate new UI design patterns from iOS 7. I quickly learned new APls and worked closely with the design team to polish the app efficiently within constraints of available resourcing.

• Chief Panda, Pandamonia

  Dec, 2009 - Present

  Pandamonia is a creative outlet for me to publish apps for Apple platforms. One such app is Backgammon with Buddies, a beautiful and accessible, multiplayer backgammon game.

Projects Experience

• JavaPay (formerly PebbleBucks)

  Dec, 2015 - Dec, 20151 day

  Formerly PebbleBucks, JavaPay provided a native Starbucks payment experience on the Pebble smartwatch platform. It had the ability to fetch card details for Starbucks users from their online accounts; this functionality was removed at their request. Written in C and JavaScript.

• TrollDropKit

  Dec, 2016 - Dec, 20161 day

  Built on top of Apple's private Sharing framework, TrollDropKit and the related TrollDropPlayground projects created a fun, abeit undocumented, way to share the joy of the troll-face meme with nearby AirDrop participants. (Note: Apple later patched sharingd to allow only entitled processes to initiate sharing operations.)

• Backgammon with Buddies (Pandamonia)

  Dec, 2019 - Present

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