Experience

Eave (eave.fyi)
• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2023 - Present


PayPal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineer II (Honey/iOS)

  • Feb 2022 - Jul 2023

  Developed UI for product detail and checkout pages using Swift and Xcode for the Honey iOS app. Led the design and implementation of automated translation system for both mobile teams, saving ~6 hours of dev time each release. Implemented new toast notification UI, causing a 40\% increase in iOS checkout flow engagement. Helped port the Honey iOS app from React Native to native Swift. Created shared CI/CD distribution pipeline to make sharing SDKs between Honey and PayPal… Show more Developed UI for product detail and checkout pages using Swift and Xcode for the Honey iOS app. Led the design and implementation of automated translation system for both mobile teams, saving ~6 hours of dev time each release. Implemented new toast notification UI, causing a 40\% increase in iOS checkout flow engagement. Helped port the Honey iOS app from React Native to native Swift. Created shared CI/CD distribution pipeline to make sharing SDKs between Honey and PayPal possible. Led multiple team culture/bonding activities, including regular bookclub and happy hour meetings.

• Software Engineer I (Honey/iOS)

  • Feb 2021 - Feb 2022

• Software Engineering Intern (Honey/Android)

  • Jun 2020 - Sep 2020

  Developed automated UI test suite in Kotlin using Espresso and MockK, and then get those tests to run regularly on CircleCI. Fixed some major accessibility issues; refactoring inaccessible views to be accessible for screen readers, keyboard navigation, and large font sizes. Developed automated UI test suite in Kotlin using Espresso and MockK, and then get those tests to run regularly on CircleCI. Fixed some major accessibility issues; refactoring inaccessible views to be accessible for screen readers, keyboard navigation, and large font sizes.



Grinnell AppDev

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• AppDev Junior Engineer

  • Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

  Developed mobile Android apps for use by the students, faculty, and staff of Grinnell College. Worked on the Grinnell Directory App, allowing anyone connected to Grinnell Wifi to search the college database of students and staff. Developed mobile Android apps for use by the students, faculty, and staff of Grinnell College. Worked on the Grinnell Directory App, allowing anyone connected to Grinnell Wifi to search the college database of students and staff.



HyTrust

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineering Intern

  • Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

  Used Swagger/openAPI to make client-facing Django API self-documenting, greatly reducing documentation update turn-around time. Utilized openSSL to increase products' network security by integrating SSL certificate validation between linked products in the field. Used Coverity to locate and fix critical issues in long-running code. Used Swagger/openAPI to make client-facing Django API self-documenting, greatly reducing documentation update turn-around time. Utilized openSSL to increase products' network security by integrating SSL certificate validation between linked products in the field. Used Coverity to locate and fix critical issues in long-running code.



GrammieGram LLC

• Head of Android Development

  • Sep 2018 - Jun 2019

  Led a team of three in creating the GrammieGram Android native app in Java and integrating it with the rest of the multiplatform company ecosystem. Utilized a test-driven approach to Android development using Espresso and Mockito. Developed REST API methods with Django for use in native apps.

• Full Stack Developer

  • Apr 2018 - Aug 2018

  Worked in Agile environment to create production consumer application with Bootstrap, JavaScript, Python, and Django. Completely rehauled Django backend of GrammieGram's flagship web app. Streamlined the contact management pages using Bootstrap and JavaScript.



Grinnell College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Developed a program to dynamically generate synthetic images to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that recognizes text in scanned images of historical maps. Synthetic training data generator improved model accuracy by 10%. Developed a program to dynamically generate synthetic images to train a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that recognizes text in scanned images of historical maps. Synthetic training data generator improved model accuracy by 10%.



Concordia Language Villages

• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Camp Counselor

  • Jul 2017 - Aug 2017

  Organized and ran culturally educational programs for children aged 5-18 completely in Spanish. Managed houses of ~12 kids aged 12 to 16 all day for 2 week periods. Organized and ran culturally educational programs for children aged 5-18 completely in Spanish. Managed houses of ~12 kids aged 12 to 16 all day for 2 week periods.