# Ardavon Falls

> Staff Software Engineer at Twilio

Location: Livermore, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ardavon

I am experienced in developing software on many mobile & embedded platforms from Android to Embedded Linux (Open Embedded, etc..).  I am the 'Low Level' engineer at MobiTV specializing in optimizing software for the Arm processor. In addition, I have experience negotiating with  customers and OEMs.

Specialties: Embedded & Mobile software

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Twilio
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Niantic, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Software Engineer @ 6D.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Acquired by Niantic

### Senior Engineer Software @ TokBox
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Software Engineer @ MobiTV
Jan 2006 – Jan 2015
Optimized MobiTV's client application in terms of performance and memory consumption. Led the deployment of MobiTV's next-generation product for a foreign (non-US) customer. Ported MobiTV's streaming television product to many handsets for many Carriers (Rogers, Alltel, Claro to name a few). Worked with customers to further solidify MobiTV's relationships with them. Negotiated with both customers and manufactures to ensure that their phones met the requirements to run MobiTV's application.

### Software Engineer @ Page 44 Studios LLC
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Three published game titles, including 'The God Father' for PSP. Gained experience developing performance intensive software on hardware constrained platforms. Worked on  projects ranging from texture compositing code to debugging 16 way network games.

### Software Engineer @ Kavayi Inc
Jan 2004 – Jan 2004
Worked in a 4 person startup that made photo management software for windows much like Google's Picasa.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Wild Packets Inc
Jan 2003 – Jan 2003
Worked as summer intern and did both black and white box testing on their Network protocol analyzing software.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Quarium
Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 | United States
I helped develop an issue tracking system using Java Web Services to help the team manage and track bugs.

### Summer Intern @ Quokka Sports
Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 | United States
Helped do some basic IT infrastructure work, also wrote some java applet stuff.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Oregon State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ardyfalls

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Last updated: 2026-04-12