Daniel Baxter

Core Android developer on the Alexa Calling and Messaging team. Took project from conception through to successful launch to millions of users. Helped define APIs, build features, integrate the calling stack into the core Alexa application.

End to end ECC encrypted ephemeral email and instant messaging application for BlackBerry10 and Android. Allow a user to communicate securely off the record with other users. Messages and emails are automatically destroyed after a set timeout and all local cache is stored in an encrypted container.

Lead BlackBerry10 development efforts and backported new features to Android client.

Lead Developer on the LinkedIn for BlackBerry 10 application. Developed for launch of BlackBerry 10 devices in January 2013. This application ships preloaded on every BB10 device that BlackBerry has shipped.

Lead Developer on the Twitter for BlackBerry 10 application. Developed for launch of BlackBerry 10 devices in January 2013. This application ships preloaded on every BB10 device that BlackBerry has shipped.

Created a Bluetooth integration between OBD-II devices and an Android application to facilitate near real-time tracking of vehicle fleets and critical statistics about the vehicles. Created a reporting front-end to show current vehicle location and location history on a Google Map plugin and charting of vehicle statistics such as speed, economy, and distance traveled.

Lead Developer and Architect on responsive HTML5-based attendee applications for BlackBerry World and BlackBerry Jam conferences. Applications used a common back-end and responsive techniques with graceful degradation to support 4 generations of BlackBerry Devices including BBOS 6 and 7, Playbook, and BlackBerry 10.

I was given 3 weeks to develop a demo to show off the power of BB10 Cascades using an alpha version of the SDK. I built an application to demonstrate the implicit animation engine and the foreign window control that allowed us to embed a full openGL frame into a Cascades application with no seems between the controls.

The ported source to the final 10.0 SDK can be found here: https://github.com/mountsyntax/NothinButNet

Colonization of Mars is a multiplayer Settlers of Catan inspired board game built for Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.

Powered by an Azure web service, Colonization is capable of synchronous and asynchronous multi-device, cross-platform multiplayer powered via push notifications. It also featured a 'pass and play' style multiplayer that can be played socially on a single device.

Escape Velocity is a side scrolling Physics-based space runner developed in DirectX for Windows Phone in the same spirit as an infinite runner game.

As an independent development project, this game was taken from concept to release by a two-man developer + designer team in two months.

The game design features a custom Physics engine, particle engine, and per planet weather simulation.