Ethan Jud

For the Good Eggs website, I built ad-hoc features and improvements. Notably, I implemented a significant portion of a new referrals program, wherein users gift money to new customers and then receive a kickback upon placing their order. While I was new to Node.js and JavaScript in a production setting, I was able to learn and start contributing very quickly.

While acting as the tech lead, on this project of providing surface producer variability to customers, I researched deeply into the monolithic web app codebase and defined detailed changes for application logic, background billing jobs, and background caching of available products.

As the primary owner and point of contact for the Good Eggs iOS application, I helped move the codebase toward a new architecture using ReSwift and VIPER, in order to more rapidly iterate on features. One notable feature I built was the ability to preorder for various holidays and events for which the company sets up special preorder availability.

A part of maintaining and iterating on the app was also iterating on the backend API that coalesces requests from the iOS app and proxies them to the main application server. For full-stack features, I worked on all three codebases.

As the lead iOS engineer on the project—and the only engineer for a bulk of the time—I had complete ownership over the code base after inheriting it from the previous engineer.

My first task was to finish a major overhaul of the design— which launched about three months after I joined the team—and received much praise and high ratings from the users.

I developed features pragmatically, but with a vision for how to improve the architecture, and over time made the application more stable for its 1.2 million monthly active users.

When building support for the video ads, my role also included frequent communication with the product team, ad sales team, and third-party ad networks—in order to increase revenue with minimal impact to the app's usability and stability.

During my short time at Hipmunk, I built features for fare alerts via push notifications, worked with the design and product teams to add new ad-hoc features to the app, participated in a design overhaul for the release of iOS 7, and solved performance problems for older devices.

As my first iOS app project, I worked on the encryption features and the map download flow for Earthmate, the iOS app that pairs with the inReach satellite communication device for texting when off the grid.

The map download flow included an API spec and development work on a C#/SQL back-end. On iOS, I integrated an HTML/JavaScript map framework for choosing a map region and built both the networking logic and UI to manage map downloads and storage.