Experience
Amazon
San Francisco, CA | The Hague, NL
- Senior Software Engineer (SDE3) on a distributed team at Amazon Music working on bridging front-end clients with back-end services covering many diverse problem areas.
- Tech lead of small teams (3-5 engineers + PM + TPM)
- Development of iOS applications using Objective-C & Swift
- Development of full-stack back-end & front-end 1st party libraries.
- Project planning & resource management
- Coaching & growth of junior engineers
- Authoring & reviewing of design and tech evaluation documents
- Monitoring & operations
- Routinely participate in interviewing & hiring
JULY 2019 - MARCH 2024
eBay, Inc
San Francisco, CA | Portland, OR
- Member of Technical Staff (MTS2) responsible for various areas of the selling flow on the eBay iOS app.
- Tech lead on pre/post-selling portion of the iOS app
- Development of iOS applications using Objective-C & Swift
- Agile team lead
- Coaching & growth of junior engineers
- Code review & management
MARCH 2016 - MARCH 2019
CBS Interactive (née CNET Networks)
San Francisco, CA
- Software Engineer (Associate through Principal) & Engineering Manager on CNET, ZDNet and other CBS web & mobile properties. I kickstarted the mobile Development at CNET and delivered its first iOS app, which reached #1 on the Apple App Store (News category).
- Tech lead & people manager of a team distributed across 3 different locales (SF, KY, UK)
- Created CNET Reviews iPhone App featuring product reviews, comparisons, search, buying guides.
- Designed & implemented the original iPhone version of CNET (iphone.cnet.com)
- Authored CiUI – an open-source web-based framework to mimic native iPhone UI
- Developed iOS applications using Objective-C & Swift
- Owned and was responsible for several key, high-revenue front-end and back-end applications on reviews.cnet.com and news.cnet.com using Java/ Spring/Hibernate and various scripting languages
- Won CBSi Impact Award for outstanding contribution to the organization
- Won Hack Day award, a 24-hour coding competition
- Won "Superman" award by completing voice-powered natural language search app and a mobile learning framework in 24 hours
- Won MVP title in an internal prototyping competition
FEBRUARY 2007 - MARCH 2016
Cohen & Grigsby, P. C.
Pittsburgh, PA
- Software Engineer responsible for development of internal applications for medium-sized company. I worked with the CTO and the director of engineering to deliver Lotus Domino and other web apps to our internal customers.
- Develop PHP, Visual C++, VB, Lotus Domino applications in Linux, BSD (Darwin) Apache and IIS Web Server environments
- Provide technical assistance with client and server administration tasks
- Provide quality assurance and debugging of various applications
JANUARY 2004 - FEBRUARY 2007
Five Star Development
Pittsburgh, PA
- Web Developer in a small web development company working on training modules for 3rd party clients.
- Program web applications following design specifications and technical leader instructions using .NET technologies
- Provide debugging, quality assurance, and documentation of developed applications
- Work as a part of a team to develop creative and technical approaches
- Communicate status, issues, roadblocks, and ideas
MAY 2003 - JANUARY 2004