- Android DeveloperKasra.co (via Toptal)2015 - 2016
- Designed and implemented the app from the grounds up, making sure to make ends meet between existing backend and desired UI.
- Worked closely with the UX team to meet design specifications and ensure comparability with a wide range of Android device sizes.
- Added background loading and caching to enable users to consume content offline.
- Implemented syncing for user settings (favorites, bookmarks, etc.) between different user devices.
- Integrated the app with several social media services, e.g., branch.io for deep linking, and Facebook/Twitter for logging in and content sharing.
Technologies: Android, REST, Deep Linking - Android DeveloperFatsack Outdoors (via Toptal)2015 - 2015
- Ported an iOS app to Android.
- Created Android UI from provided Photoshop templates.
- Employed a mix of local and in-the-cloud strategy for data storage and caching.
Technologies: Android, Parse SDK, JSON - Android Mobile DeveloperRolltech, Inc. (via Toptal)2014 - 2015
- Developed the Android version of a Rolltech bowling score tracking app.
- Converted iOS app screens to Android ones.
- Implemented the app to consume a real-time API and maintained a responsive user-friendly UI.
Technologies: Android, Retrofit, JSON - DeveloperTerminal.com (via Toptal)2014 - 2014
- Created reusable Linux-based snapshots. Each snapshot contained popular open source software installed, configured, and ready to use.
Technologies: Linux - Development LeadInmobly2014 - 2014
- Led a team of six developers, making design decisions and enforcing code quality practices.
- Used adaptive algorithms in the software to predict user future content consumption based on previous behavior.
- Achieved goals of lowering network congestion and decreasing internet bills.
Technologies: Android, Python - System DesignerCGI2012 - 2013
- Redesigned SQL queries, significantly cutting execution time from 5 hours to 15 minutes.
- Redesigned C-based administration software for power plants into a server/client architecture.
- Ensured full backward compatibility for the new design.
Technologies: JavaScript, C#, SQL - Team LeaderCartoLogic2012 - 2012
- Created a unified user management system encapsulating services running on different platforms.
- Developed a paging system allowing users to consume large amounts of data from GIS services not offering paging.
Technologies: ASP.NET, Python - Senior DeveloperCIT MobiDiv2011 - 2011
- Wrote a lossless algorithm to compress images in as few SMS packets as possible.
- Integrated the application with the messaging system on various mobile platforms.
- Used Facebook/Twitter API to publish images from the application.
Technologies: Windows Mobile, Android, J2ME - DeveloperHarf IT2007 - 2011
- Designed and implemented algorithms for indexing both plain text and XML, with the ability to execute XPath queries on indexed data.
- Kept search and retrieval performance under 300ms for 16GB of data on a single mainstream PC, with index storage overhead of 15%.
- Wrote COM wrappers to provide search functionality to other platforms.
- Wrote a plugin to provide advanced Arabic support for SQL Server full text search.
Technologies: C++, Win32 API
