# Manuel Deschamps > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/manueldeschamps ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Digits Jan 2018 – Present ### Engineering Manager @ Airbnb Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Ops and Services engineering manager for Airbnb Plus. ### Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Working in the iOS app creating new products for Airbnb's Hosts ### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 I created the HTML5 mobile app for Twitter on iOS, Android, tablets and FirefoxOS. Built the new Digits identity platform designing and implementing the Web SDK, server-side SMS functionality utilizing existing SMS capabilities and built many of the post-launch Digits iOS features such as Theming, event logging, Interface builder and iPad support. Built the Web SDK as an NPM package which can run in insolation for development and testing in Node’s Express, or be connected to Twitter’s web framework in staging and production environments. The current architecture allows the team to develop client in parallel while SMS and Login support was being developed. Architected and refactored Crashlytics’ main web application using RequireJS to split the main bundle into on demand components, reducing initial payload by 80% and improving average load times by 50%. Implemented new Crashlytics dashboards using D3 graphs and data being streamed in realtime. Designed and lead the implementation of a HTML5 Mobile client. The architecture required building a middleware on Twitter's Rails servers to authenticate OAuth requests to Twitter API without sending the OAuth keys to the clients. The client was built using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. It was built to function on handheld and tablets devices such as iPhone, Android and iPad. It used the latest available technologies like HTML5 Application Cache and SQL Data Storage. Intensive use of animations based purely on web technologies such as CSS3 3D Transforms and Transitions. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 I implemented Yahoo's HTML5 mobile Mail client for iOS and Android in 2010. I worked for the new Yahoo! Mail building AJAX and Front-end features like the new Image Viewer, FF3 and Safari support, a new supported-browers cache to reduce the memory footprint in the front-end servers and speed up the launch sequence. Winner of the Yahoo! Mail Engineering Excellence Award - First half of 2008 for building the Lightbox Image Viewer, and a tool for Mail Stationery that translates visual designs into XML. I lead and implemented the new Yahoo Mail design for the company relaunch in September 09. I worked closely with the design team to create a better experience for our users. At the same time I wrote the 2 new attachment uploaders, one based on YUI and the other based on BrowserPlus; this gives the ability to our users to select multiple files, rotate and resize their photos. Winner of the Yahoo! Super Star Award 09. ### Software Engineer @ Appian Corporation Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 In Appian I was part of the Technical Strategy Team where I built really amazing prototypes like WSRP, JSR 168 and RDMBS support for the internal storage systems. I also wrote a dynamic Webservices Client to create SOAP requests on the fly and a framework to retrieve and store data from any RDBMS directly from the processes running on Appian Enterprise. ### Research Assistant @ Stanford University Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 • Worked within a CS Department research team to develop an efficient Tag-Search Algorithm that reduces Spam in the results. • Built a simulator that could take different user models and search algorithms and make analysis of which algorithm reduces more spam for that specific scenario. ### Research Assistant @ ITESM Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 I worked one year in the Personal Digital Library Project (PDLib). I built the OAI interoperability module, the WebClient interface and also wrote new files support for the Phronesis Project. In my last year as a Research Assistant I worked in combine project with Google in the GData project doing some of the back-end samples and the C# client for Google Calendar. ## Education ### MBA in Information Technology in Information Technology, Business Tecnológico de Monterrey ### CS in Computer Science Tecnológico de Monterrey ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mdeschamps - Portfolio: http://twitter.com/manuel --- Source: https://flows.cv/manueldeschamps JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manueldeschamps/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10