software engineering résumé

experience

Google: software engineer III

June 2018 - present

Completed business-critical migrations and made tactical improvements in the rapidly evolving space of supply chain automation.

• Created a self-service app to configure automatic creation of shipping orders.
  • Saved ~0.5 person-years per year in operational toil.
• Migrated a ~20-page UI ahead of the deprecation of the front-end platform.
  • Fixed cryptic and error-prone UX.
  • Without this migration, there would have been no task tracking or inventory tracking for installing part kits.
• Migrated creation of shipping orders to a different third-party system.
  • Met the aggressive deadline set by upper management.
  • Successfully steered an overlapping in-progress migration to a clean state.
• Reduced operations toil by empowering users to select alternative sources for shipments.
• Revamped on-call playbook and triage process.
  • Guaranteed visibility of all incoming issues within support time limit.
• Reduced toil by automating clean-up of invalid shipping orders.
• Created custom alerts to identify automation blockages.
  • Designed a deduplication strategy for noisy alerts. Side project: Corrected ~100 improperly coded Spanish voice command phrases in an Android accessibility app.
• Proactively found and eliminated a subtle bug that made it impossible to change navigation modes.

Adjuvet: co-founder, software engineer

August 2015 - May 2018

Created a gig economy service to get veterinarians paid faster and hired more efficiently.

SmugMug: front-end web development intern

June 2014 - August 2014

Created UI components for a website builder.

• Increased voluntary user migration 10x by creating a preview pane.
• Improved visual presentation of photos on user portfolios by creating an image carousel.

education

Rochester Institute of Technology: BS in Software Engineering

graduated May 2015

• Created an open-source graph layout editor for Two Sigma Investments.
• Course work in artificial intelligence.

side projecs

Stylin’ 24/7

January 2021 - present

Created a graphically intuitive 24-hour watch face for smart watches.

• Devised a simple formula to get local sunrise and sunset times offline.
• Designed an at-a-glance graphical display for sunrise and sunset times.

alternate reality games / escape rooms

December 2014 - present

Created and hosted puzzle games to be played in the real world.

• Created a mobile app to give geographic clues based on GPS.
• Invented a writing system and created clues that teach players to read it.
• Created detailed diagrams to track players’ progress.
• Devised new in-game hints in real time to assist stuck players.
• Designed and manufactured clues, tools, and props.
• Doctored photos to add spooky ghosts alongside players.
• Automated scheduling tasks.

SpeedReader

2007 - 2008

Created a desktop app to aid speed reading.