Michael is a Senior Engineer with five years of employment developing iOS applications, data explorers, interactive installations, and games.
iOS Application Engineering *
| Homer Learning | March 2017 - June 2018 |
| Evil Studios | April 2016 - December 2017 |
| Crush & Lovely | January 2016 – May 2016 |
| The Liquor Cabinet | September 2015 – February 2016 |
| Samsung Research of America | December 2014 – August 2015 |
| Beautified | May 2014 – November 2014 |
| Mindspark | December 2013 – May 2014 |
| * Excludes sub-contracted development |
| iOS Application SDK and Vendor Experience | |
| Storage | GraphQL, Parse API, Firebase,Core Data, Keychain, UserDefaults, Filemaker, Access |
| Networking | Node.js, NSURLSession, AFNetworking, Alamofire, WebKit,Reachability, MultipeerConnectivity |
| Analytics | mParticle, Parse, Fabric, Kissmetrics, Facebook, Google Analytics, Optimizely, Bugsnag, BeautifulSoup, NLTK, SPSS, ArcGIS,Proprietary |
| Animation | CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics, CoreImage, SceneKit, SpriteKit, GamePlayKit,CoreMotion, Processing, Unity, Cinder, OpenFrameworks, OpenGL, GLSL |
| Multimedia | Notification Center, Kahuna, Photos, SDWebImage, Google Maps, Apple Maps,GoNative, QT |
| Authentication | Parse, Facebook, OAuth, Digits |
| Purchasing | StoreKit, CardIO, RMStore |
| Testing | XCTest, OCMock |
| Toolchain | XCode, Visual Studio, Cocoapods, Carthage, Git, Node Package Manager, CMake, Bitrise, Jenkins |
| Design | Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, Premier Pro, Final Cut Pro, SketchUp |
| Embedded | Arduino, MQTT, TCP/IP, UDP, Serial, I2C, SPI,CoreBluetooth, iBeacon |
Homer Learning | https://www.learnwithhomer.com |
Senior Engineer | March 2017 – June 2018 |
- Contributed to a large, cross-functional team to ship features for a subscription-based educational app with over 250,000 MAUs.
- Refactored major components, including the main navigation controller and audio asset handling, to improve performance and user experience.
- Established and configured CI/CD pipelines using Bitrise to streamline the development and release process.
- Designed and implemented a dynamic, CMS-driven contextual onboarding system.
- Collaborated on the implementation of OAuth for partner subscribers.
Evil Studios | http://evilapples.com |
Contracted Senior iOS Engineer | April 2016 – December 2016 |
- Executed maintenance and feature development sprints for a popular social gaming app with over 300,000 MAUs, maintaining a 99.7% crash-free rate.
- Refactored the in-app purchase store and enhanced core UI components using Auto-Layout.
- Adjusted the distribution of in-app currency and pop-up advertisements to optimize monetization.
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Crush and Lovely | http://crushlovely.com |
Contracted Senior iOS Engineer | January 2016 – May 2016 |
- Developed the MTV News iOS application, delivering pixel-perfect UI and animations for a major media brand.
- Integrated multiple social network sharing APIs (iMessage, Instagram, Facebook, etc.).
- Customized the GoNative wrapper to integrate native features with web content.
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The Liquor Cabinet | http://www.theliquorcabinet.com |
Contracted Senior Engineer | September 2015 – February 2016 |
- Acted as the sole engineer, handling both backend (Parse) and native iOS development to launch the initial product from scratch.
- Implemented a pixel-perfect design with a focus on seamless transitions and a custom card layout.
- Authored an administrative tool for database management.
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Samsung Research of America | http://www.samsungnext.com |
Senior Engineer | December 2014 – August 2015 |
- Designed and implemented core architecture for a cross-platform photo service, including the network client, CoreData model (MVVM), and a custom gallery layout algorithm.
- Developed a system to fetch photos from first-party and third-party repositories in both foreground and background processes.
- Built custom interfaces in Auto-Layout, including a card-based memory feed and collage editing view
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Beautified |
Senior iOS Engineer | May 2014 – November 2014 |
- Led a complete rewrite of the client interface to implement a new design for an on-demand booking application.
- Integrated multiple third-party SDKs for push notifications (Kahuna), analytics (mParticle), and credit card transactions.
- Produced and presented a data visualization of the purchase funnel to co-founders to inform user flow design.
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Mindspark | http://www.weatherwhiskers.com |
Senior iOS Engineer | December 2013 – May 2014 |
- Refactored an iPhone-only client into a universal app for both iPhone and iPad.
- Fixed critical, time-sensitive bugs in the in-app purchasing system for consumer-facing applications.
- Improved the performance and transition speed of scrolling through views with large image assets.
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