As the first engineer at a startup with ~20M monthly uniques, I've had the opportunity to design and develop many key pieces of infrastructure and UI.
iOS (http://www.polyvore.com/iOS)
• Founding member of 2 engineers and a designer. Architected and developed server and client.
• Consistent 5-star rating, 1M downloads in 6 months. Webby award in 2014.
• Grew to a team of 6 engineers, 2 designers, external testers.
Web
• Responsible for end-to-end design and implementation of features, from SQL to client and common client-server APIs
• Responsible for the Polyvore Editor: a 100% JS image-collaging tool that is the core of the user experience
• Designed and built Photoshop-like features in the Editor, including rotation, scaling, selection, text, undo
• Developed and evangelized engineering best practices
• Implementation highlights: UI guidelines + component framework, A/B testing framework, code style guide, page speed tools, JS and perl perf tools, infinite scroll, autocomplete
• Lead frontend development team of 3.
Data Store / Data Processing
• Developed data import pipeline: 200+ distributed crawlers, 300+ feeds with automated quality monitors
• Implemented image processing pipeline for image clustering (de-duping), image composition
• SQL schema design and query optimization
Managing
• 100s of interviews, recruiting functions, tech talks.
• Managed 7 engineers across iOS and Android teams.
