Experience

Photon7 as a Visual Production Engineer

Designed, developed, and deployed features for sharing and counter-abuse in Google Drive for iOS.
Built GAR4 level accessibility within features by including dark mode, high contrast, voice over, and swipe navigation.
Conducted weekly interviews for prospective software engineer candidates to join Google.
Wrote code in Objective-C, C++, Swift, and other in-house languages.
Collaborated with the Web and Android Drive engineers to align UI design along with specs provided by UX engineers.
Wrote design documents for upcoming features in Google Drive for iOS.
Planned development with atomic tasks in weekly sprints.

Supported RealityKit with automated pre-submission and daily API testing.
Reported bugs to software engineers with regression information, reproducible recordings, and pertinent code paths.
Conducted interviews for prospective QA engineers.
Developed a Swift application to run in a lab of various machines daily.
Designed and ran testing for SwiftStrike: an AR application shown at WWDC 2019.
Attended WWDC 2019 to provide technical support to third-party developers utilizing RealityKit.
Specialized in animation and networking API frameworks for RealityKit.
Collaborated with other QA engineers on my team and cross-functionally with software engineers, project managers, and technical managers.
Provided status updates to my manager and team in daily stand-up and weekly one-on-one meetings.
Drove weekly team meetings by presenting the agenda and ensuring effective use of our time.

Developed a tool and network for storage and retrieval to support automated image testing.
Wrote the tool with Python and network with PostgreSQL and REST API.
Utilized ExifTool, CoreGraphics, Image I/O, and other in-house technologies to parse image metadata.
Supported several QA teams by enhancing the tool to fit automated testing requirements.
Reported regressions in Image I/O, CoreGraphics, and CoreAnimation through manual UI and automated API pre-submission and weekly testing.
Designed and ran feature testing for dark mode introduced in macOS Mojave.
Collaborated with other QA engineers on my team and cross-functionally with software engineers, project managers, and technical managers.
Provided written daily reports and met in-person weekly with my manager.

Developed an ecommerce iOS app with Swift.
Developed a web crawler written in Ruby utilizing Ruby on Rails to parse metadata from various ecommerce website vendors.
Collaborated with two software engineers.
Worked part-time during school both in-person and remotely.

Automated video playback quality assurance by analyzing dropped frames with a custom-built tool.
Wrote code in Python and Objective-C.
Deployed the tool in a lab of several devices running macOS and iOS.
Presented the tool and testing results to a board of technical managers and Craig Federighi.

Created a cross-platform app to keep track of the score for two players in the card game Gin Rummy.
Wrote code in Swift.
Utilized SwiftUI.

Created a platformer video game written in Swift for Apple TV.
Submitted to the Apple TV app store and was accepted within one week.
Manipulated sprites and parallax background images provided by a collaborating artist.
Wrote a dissertation analyzing the development process.
Submitted as my senior project for Cal Poly Computer Science bachelors degree.

Created a cross-platform sprite-based top-down goat yeeting video game.
Wrote code in Java.
Utilized libgdx.
Won first place for our location in the annual Global Game Jam hack-a-thon event.

Created a real-time interactive 3D video game with an overworld and several minigames.
Wrote code in C++.
Utilized OpenGL.
Initialized source code versioning control for four developers with Git.
Submitted as my final project for Real-time 3D Graphics course at Cal Poly.