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Mobile Technical Lead at Charles Schwab
February 2023 - Present
Charles Schwab offers investment products and services, eg: brokerage and retirement accounts, online trading
Leadership & People Management:
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Partners with Product & Design on roadmap and requirements, defines scope, acceptance criteria, and milestones.
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Leads iOS technical direction guiding development standards and documenting/educating best practices
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Mentors junior/mid-level engineers. Drives Developer Experience standards. Runs sprint rituals.
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Strengthens reliability via observability: crash analytics, logging/metrics, alerts, and incident response.
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Coordinates cross-team dependencies (API contracts, sequencing, handoffs) prioritizing deliverables and unblocking iOS/Android teams to meet release dates.
Strategic & Business Impact:
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Drove architectural improvements in a 15-year-old legacy codebase, leading refactoring and documentation efforts across.
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Championed data-driven decision-making, re-establishing analytics pipelines to guide product improvements.
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Led multi-team efforts across Engineering, Design, Product, and QA to improve cross-functional delivery and coordination.
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Responsible for coordinating iOS app's "application security" adherence strategy.
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Lead iOS Developer at Stitch Fix
August 2020 - January 2023
StitchFix is an online personalized styling retail service
Leadership & People Management:
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Managed cross-team initiatives, such as implementing strikethrough pricing throughout the iOS application.
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Contributed to hiring efforts, screening candidates and participating in hiring decisions for iOS engineers.
Process & Engineering Improvements:
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Owned checkout and return workflow improvements, enhancing user experience and reducing errors.
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Led multiple large-scale refactors of mission-critical workflows, improving performance and maintainability.
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Product Innovation/ Mobile Lead at Uplift Inc
June 2019 - April 2020
Uplift was a travel fintech company providing short term consumer loans
- Brought on to help create a product innovation team leading mobile efforts
- Led a small team of mobile devs creating prototype apps for further vetting
- Technically assisted team by learning AWS, writing Python, JS, Swift & Java
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Lead iOS Developer/Architect at Pinn
October 2018 - May 2019
Pinn was a small startup providing biometric & PKI authentication frameworks for partner apps
- Lead iOS Developer, owned iOS architecture, product & design. Advised android
- Built company's prototype biometric identification framework
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Lead iOS Developer at Under Armour
March 2016 - Feb 2018
UA's connected fitness division handled it's digital assets including MyFitnessPal & UA Run
- Architected and built iOS frameworks for UA apps
- Frameworks included: authentication/SSO, notifications, rollouts, data sync
- Worked with UA Run, MyFitnessPal, and UA Shop to facilitate integrations
- Deployed code to ~100 million users, needed to be bulletproof and quickly fixable
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iOS Developer at TopTal
October 2014 - September 2018
Toptal is an exclusive network of the top 3% of software devs in the world
- Architected and spec-ed apps for implementation by third parties
- All contacts were remote in nature with clients in multiple countries
- Worked on legacy projects to bring them up to a proper architecture to allow new feature development
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Cofounder & CEO of Wersda LLC
October 2012 - March 2016
Wersda was a very small, bootstrapped startup for location navigation software for grocery stores
- Architected, designed and built the API, website, iOS and Android apps
- Managed product requirements and design. Set expectations for team members
- Fought hard to keep the product on track and keep the Minimum Viable Product clean
- Performed user experience testing and rapid prototyping to iterate and test different UI/UX
- Wrote an "indoor navigation" engine with javascript for vector based rendering
