BackStory

I started out as an Android engineer tasked with rewriting from scratch what would turn out to be one of the largest and most successful Bollywood streaming Android apps with 10+ million downloads to date in 6 months. That experience lead me to a position where I was coaching a large team of awesome engineers to build a diverse range of products. Throughout this time I oversaw and contributed to 10+ large projects across the full stack that are still successful today. I recently built my own patient centered startup from the ground up contributing more than 80% of the source code in both Ruby on Rails and Android. This product continues to be actively used and maintained. In total I have written and released 5+ Android apps in both Kotlin and Java.

Outside of this experience, I have advised many machine-learning startups on product development and iteration while also teaching classes/seminars on agile project management. I have lead teams both on-site and remotely in New Delhi, Jerusalem, San Francisco, Belarus, Ukraine, Toronto and Amsterdam. I am well versed in HIPAA and the Health 2.0 space and love working in this area.

That’s enough about me. Let's chat about how I might help you and your team achieve your goals!

Mobile Projects

ErosNow Android (Google Play Store)

ErosNow was an app that had lost market share and went from millions of users to 10k and a 1 star rating. I was tasked with rewriting the whole app to be more optimized and feature rich in 6 months for their Christmas holiday release.

For this app I had to modify Google’s newly released ExoPlayer to support previously unsupported Apple subtitle files. These files were in multiple languages including Arabic RTL. Furthermore we had to modify video codec’s and implement custom caching methods to overcome high latency networks where the majority of users were. Within 6 months of release the client had achieved 7 million downloads and a 5 star rating.

BiomarkEP (Google Play Store)

BiomarkEP was an app thought up by my own needs as a parent of a child with severe epilepsy. I created it to track epileptic seizures and the passive data surrounding those events. For this we collected Fitbit, weather, air quality, location, and medication administration data. The goal of this project was to see if there were any outside contributing factors to triggering epileptic seizures and to provide the caregiver with medication reminders and peace of mind.

VisaNow Concierge app FIFA World Cup 2018 (Offline for next event prep)

For the VisaNow app I integrated proximity beacon technology to allow communication of proximity events from the Android device to a smart beer-pouring kiosk at the FIFA 2018 World Cup. We had to overcome many obstacles like BLE interference, scanning during phone sleep mode and battery saving. I also implemented a complete redesign of the app provided by Visa Design team.

VisaNow Docusign ticket and gift agreement Android tablet app (For internal use only)

I created this Android tablet app to utilize the DocuSign API for providing documents and collecting digital signatures when concierge guests arrived at the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Upon arriving guests were originally required to sign many paper documents for Waivers, gift agreements and to receive their daily match tickets. This solution digitized the whole process in a clean, easy to use interface.

Pulsr Android App (Closed)

Pulsr was a location aware “things to do" app. On the backend we consumed Twitter firehose, Eventful, Facebook streams, Instagram and many other API's to find hotspots of activity in areas surrounding the user. On the mobile app there was a map that used social media activity and drew bubbles where the size and color indicated what was going on in areas. By clustering heavy social activity in one space we were able to indicate busyness in an area. Finally based on users tastes and friend’s tastes we had an ordered list of things to do in their proximity. The biggest challenge on the mobile side of this app was forking and customizing google maps tools to handle the different data types and display requirements. Pulsr was also a very photo rich app that required quite a bit of memory management and caching to keep things running smoothly.