A role that combines my creativity, my leadership, and my expertise.
In addition, the role should include pair programming, mentorship opportunities, incremental architecture, test-driven design, refactoring, and CI/CD.
Publications highlighting my work
I’m linking to this app from Daniel Ramteke for several reasons. First, it’s an excellent (and free) way to play with the various haptic parameters to get precisely the desired effect. Secondly, Daniel streamed the entire development of this app on his Twitch channel and uploaded all 13 session recordings to YouTube.
Enter Underway NYC, a new iOS App that removes all the extra features and bloat of the transit apps and simply shows you how many minutes it is until the next train at your station.
In addition to the MTA's online Subway Times, which offers the current arrival times by line and station and is accessible from the internet even beyond the subway's hallowed platforms, Underway NYC now offers the same information but in app form and plotted to a subway map.
Let's face it: Google Maps can only get you so far. … Made specifically with busy New Yorkers in mind, it's an all-in-one commute compendium.
Should you use it? If you just want to know when the next train is arriving, but don't need step-by-step navigation.
Daniel got along very well with our team and did meaningful work towards helping us to complete our app.
Dan is a dependable employee and a hard worker. During his time at Stash, he has delivered quality code as a member of the iOS team. He has worked seamlessly on a number of high-value epics and features while delivering in a timely fashion. He was involved in a number of projects, including a complete re-write of our iOS mobile app using the VIPER pattern. More recently, Dan has worked as an iOS engineer on our Growth team. He works closely with the Stash Marketing department and his experience as a senior engineer has allowed the team to move quickly while producing quality software with high test coverage.
5 stars, would contract again. I needed something. You gave it to me for a good price. I am happy. Successful project.
Underway is marvelous. It is the navigation app that I use most consistently on the train, and for good reason. It has exactly the information I need and nothing more, and it executes it perfectly. I know how to read a map. I don’t need colorful directions and an inventive new route that combines ferries, buses, and a dollar van. I want to know when I need to leave my apartment and if it’s worth it to wait for an express train. Underway gets me the information I want and it does it without drama. It also has lots of very thoughtful touches. It works very well offline, and I like that I can send a train tracking link to people I’m meeting so that they can track me live. It’s like flight tracking but for the subway. For all its utility and minimalism, Underway also betrays the meticulousness of its creators. Changes to the subway map are added right away — the walking connection between Times Square and Bryant Park seemed to appear within hours after it opened. Everything works how I need it to, when I need it to. The only thing that might need some more nuanced adjustment is the service change interface, which shows absolutely everything affecting a train at once and can be a touch overwhelming. Other apps do service changes, though. Nothing does what Underway does as well as Underway does it. I haven’t even written an app review in years. I just feel I have a duty to point out the rare thing in our world that is not a disgusting disappointment. This is among them. Bravo!
Inherited partially complete iOS, Android and node web app
Hired specialists across the globe and managed the project to launch
Featured in iOS Dev Weekly!
Built Haptics Studio using SwiftUI, which helps you discover the perfect customized haptics for your app
Answer viewers’ programming questions
Designed iPhone app to instantly book technicians to fix home maintenance issues
Streamlined onboarding flow with camera
Prototyped in SwiftUI and Sketch
Aided in their client project by porting open source framework away from Realm to GRDB.
Objective-C interacting with new Swift code.
Worked quickly to meet their client’s deadline, updating frequently
Tech-lead for a referral rewards program across backend, web, Android, and iOS
Mentored colleagues learning to develop on iOS.
Experimental social financial site at crew.stash.com using React & Ruby on Rails
Converted monolithic services to microservices, using Ruby on Rails, Kafka, HTML/CSS and Docker
iOS developr ependency management using Mint, Cocoapods, & Xcodegen
Native iOS screens and architecture for onboarding overhaul
Interviewed candidates for senior roles
Embedded GrowFlow’s existing webapp into a WKWebView with native login screen
Coordinated on-device capabilities such as BlueTooth and local storage to enable their React webapp to connect and reconnect to receipt and label printers.
Integrated native Zebra and Star Micronics SDKs to print over BlueTooth, USB, and WiFi from iPad.
Converted PDFs to native CoreGraphics bitmaps to print receipts and package labels
Took ownership of investigating a launch bug that involved AppsFlyer and concurrent threads which resulted in potential 10 second launch times. The fix I architected and implemented resulted in a ~10% increase in registrations.
Braze, Mixpanel, Apptimize, AppsFlyer, and Branch integrations.
Migrated from Branch to AppsFlyer
Built first iOS app according to the provided designs.
Implemented currency conversion and currency formatting.
Massive iOS app rewrite from Objective-C with MVC architecture to Swift with VIPER architecture with improved testability.
Coordinated across with development and business teams to codify the rules around purchase logic, implementing them in Fitnesse tests.
Added usuability features to existing Objective-C camera app
Migration off Parse to new vendor due to Parse end-of-life
Led team of two designers, two developers to build iOS app using Swift
Integrated the Twitter SDK.
Led team of one developer and one designer
Used Swift and Rails to help design and deliver a contest-driven photo sharing app.
Maintained the original RubyMotion version of the app
Migrated the app to Swift from RubyMotion
Used Parse and Objective-C to help deliver UI improvements and a new feature: daily fantasy.
Users of the app loved the changes!
Used Swift and UIKit to create the first version of their iOS app
Worked with their in-house design and backend teams, as well as their newly-hired iOS engineer.
Used Objective-C and Rails to further improve their app
Built an internal mailing list server in Python, Cyrus Lists, allowing co-workers to self-manage mailing list subscriptions, before Slack was popular.
Launched a Planning Poker iPhone app on the App Store.
Launched I’m Late iPhone app using RubyMotion.
Engaged in hiring process, interviewing, and reviewing code tests
Full client project list to come
Used CoreBluetooth, MapKit, and RubyMotion to deliver an iPhone app to control mechanical components for a prototype automobile project.
Used AngularJS, Dropwizard, Elastic Search, and AWS automation to deliver internal tools
Contributed to a small ecommerce website using Ruby on Rails
Used Ruby and Rails to help with video encoding and admin pages
Delivered features as an integrated member of their Ruby on Rails development team. Features include new search results page, typeahead search, and PowerReviews integration.
Added features and fixed bugs for their marketing-focused CMS using Java
Developed a document sharing platform in JRuby on Rails, in addition to other maintenance and bug fixes
Built their core asset management system using Webwork, Hibernate, Tomcat, and Pico.
Migrated new client databases into Fusion.
Setup a VMware TeamCity continuous integration instance.
Used Ruby, Rails, Rspec, Selenium, and MySql to build a custom CMS.
Aided in Agile conversion as an embedded team.
Built out their revenue recognition system and their drop shipping system using SpringMVC, Hibernate, Selenium, Dojo, and Fit.
Maintained their legacy CSR apps.