Experience

Taro (YC S22)

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Apr 2022 - 1 year 9 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Every software engineer codes, but coding isn't enough. The most effective engineers have mastered countless skills beyond raw coding. We're building Taro to give you the inside scoop on building those skills, so you can get to that next level and become a truly great software engineer.



Tech Career Growth Community

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Human Being

  • Jan 2021 - 3 years

  The Internet Working with my buddy Rahul Pandey to lower barriers within the tech industry for all. If you need a leg up with your career in tech, join us here: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/techcareergrowth/ Slack - https://lnkd.in/gdPmqDy Mailing list - https://learn.rkpandey.com/



RandomAppsInc

• Chief Durdle Officer

  • Jul 2013 - 10 years 6 months

  San Francisco Bay Area Build free, ad-free, open-source Android apps that help people in my spare time. 2,000,000+ installs and 20,000+ reviews combined on Google Play. Here are the highlights: Random Name Picker - 750,000+ installs with a 4.5+ rating after 4,500+ reviews Random Number Generator Plus - 340,000+ installs with a 4.7 rating after 3,300+ reviews SQL Practice Pro - 375,000+ installs with a 4.7+ rating after 6,000+ reviews Simple Flashcards Plus - 140,000+ installs with a 4.6+ rating after… Show more Build free, ad-free, open-source Android apps that help people in my spare time. 2,000,000+ installs and 20,000+ reviews combined on Google Play. Here are the highlights: Random Name Picker - 750,000+ installs with a 4.5+ rating after 4,500+ reviews Random Number Generator Plus - 340,000+ installs with a 4.7 rating after 3,300+ reviews SQL Practice Pro - 375,000+ installs with a 4.7+ rating after 6,000+ reviews Simple Flashcards Plus - 140,000+ installs with a 4.6+ rating after 3,200+ reviews GO Database for Pokémon GO - 80,000+ installs Contacts Hacker - 84,000+ installs Borderlands 2 Soundboard - 14,000+ installs Bernie Sanders Soundboard - 7,000+ installs Food Button - 6,000+ installs Show less



Robinhood

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Android Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Jan 2022

  Menlo Park, California, United States Joined this place to force myself to learn how to write decent Kotlin.



YouTube

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Random YouTube Guy

  • Jul 2020 - Oct 2021

  Silicon Valley, California, United States Rebooted the YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/FBWalshyFTW/) I ran in high school and college. It's doing okay I guess: - 136,000+ subscribers - 85 million+ video views I also play a lot of Animal Crossing and started a YouTube channel around that: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr780O5knyejvw9c7qh-dGA - 12,300+ subscribers - 9.2 million+ video views I guess I'm somewhat decent at this YouTube thing.



Instagram

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2018 - Mar 2021

  Menlo Park Tech lead building beautiful experiences for Instagram Ads.



Facebook

• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Android Engineer @ Portal, Facebook Building 8

  • May 2017 - Aug 2018

  Menlo Park I built the Facebook voice assistant on Portal from scratch and mainly by myself: - Built out core voice commands, particularly the calling and navigation ones - Aligned many engineering teams (Device Software, Speech NLU, Assistant ML, and QA), owning the entire feature end to end - Mentored and onboarded several engineers into the workstream, converting one of them from a contractor into a full-time hire with the company - Drove XFN collaboration between eng and QA, TPMs, design… Show more I built the Facebook voice assistant on Portal from scratch and mainly by myself: - Built out core voice commands, particularly the calling and navigation ones - Aligned many engineering teams (Device Software, Speech NLU, Assistant ML, and QA), owning the entire feature end to end - Mentored and onboarded several engineers into the workstream, converting one of them from a contractor into a full-time hire with the company - Drove XFN collaboration between eng and QA, TPMs, design, and PMs - Went deep into the AOSP stack to convert voice from a module latched onto an activity to a service running across the app, making sure that it played well with audio focus and the media player Show less



Course Hero

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Android Technical Lead

  • Jun 2016 - May 2017

  Redwood City, CA - Continued developing/supporting core features for Course Hero's Android app - While writing a lot of the actual code, I also wrote architecture documents for large tasks and participated in scoping out product requirements and evaluating designs. I went over every code review to maintain code quality and allow myself to read every line of the Android code base at least 3 times - Maintained the Google Play Store Listing - I did all the release management, merging branches into master… Show more - Continued developing/supporting core features for Course Hero's Android app - While writing a lot of the actual code, I also wrote architecture documents for large tasks and participated in scoping out product requirements and evaluating designs. I went over every code review to maintain code quality and allow myself to read every line of the Android code base at least 3 times - Maintained the Google Play Store Listing - I did all the release management, merging branches into master after they're code reviewed, setting up alphas, writing instruction sets and creating Postman collections to help my team test builds, and promoting code to prod when it's ready. I also kept an eye on all the app statistics, responded to all the written reviews, and in the early days, I was even taking the app screenshots for the store listing - Implemented Android recruiting strategy end to end - Alongside doing the actual interviews, I helped write the Android job posting, created a set of phone screen questions (both for general interviews and Android-specific ones), and built a small Android app and spec for it as the technical portion for Android engineer onsite interviews - Established best practices - I wrote over 50 pages of documentation for the Android team wiki, outlining the culture, environment setup, git branching strategy, development best practices, code review best practices, and the explanation behind the Course Hero Android interview process

• Android Engineer

  • Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

  Redwood City I took Course Hero from 0 lines of code to an Android app as their 1st Android engineer. It was fun.



PayPal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

  San Jose, CA Played some foosball



Connexity, Inc.

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

  Los Angeles Built some internal tools



YouTube

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Partner

  • Dec 2008 - Mar 2013

  - Founded and maintained 3 aggregation-based YouTube channels, featuring content for the video game series Halo by 343 Industries and Bungie, which currently have over 125,000 subscribers and 55 million video views total - Review user-submitted content for posting - Negotiate with series producers for lucrative video series to feature



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Intern

  • Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

  - Assisted with Bersin's DRM project to protect its PDF assets. Helped create use cases, lay out requirements, and prototype potential solutions - Wrote Perl scripts to aid with quality assurance and data aggregation