Engineering Lead
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Frontend lead on Twitter's small business platform, taking it from $0 to six-figure revenue per day.
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Thomas Rix
engineer @ClassPass / formerly @Vine @Twitter @Zappos @Trulia @Newzealand / gpg C27504E07119F00D
engineer @ClassPass / formerly @Vine @Twitter @Zappos @Trulia @Newzealand / gpg C27504E07119F00D
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Vine
Senior Software Engineer
• Lead engineer on syndication platform which displayed over a billion Vines per month
• Lead engineer on discovery portal which served hundreds of millions of million... more page views per month
• Contributed production code to Vine's mobile apps
• Attended business development meetings as engineering liaison with partners such as Google, Reddit, Pinterest & Tumblr
• Acted as interface to the developer community, processing responsibly-disclosed security vulnerability reports and bugs
• Lead engineer on discovery portal which served hundreds of millions of million... more page views per month
• Contributed production code to Vine's mobile apps
• Attended business development meetings as engineering liaison with partners such as Google, Reddit, Pinterest & Tumblr
• Acted as interface to the developer community, processing responsibly-disclosed security vulnerability reports and bugs
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Senior Software Engineer
* Lead frontend engineer on Twitter's small business ads management interface, which grew +30,000% in revenue per day during my time on the team. Made with Ruby, Backbone... more & Marionette.
• Participated in hundreds of code reviews.
• Represented Twitter Engineering at various industry events.
• Promoted to Senior within 14 months of my time there.
• Transferred to NYC in mid-2013, continued to work remotely for Small Business team.
• Participated in hundreds of code reviews.
• Represented Twitter Engineering at various industry events.
• Promoted to Senior within 14 months of my time there.
• Transferred to NYC in mid-2013, continued to work remotely for Small Business team.
Senior Developer
* Research & development role, creating one off prototypes and explorations which could provide publicity and/or sales for Zappos.
• Technical lead for content-development... more for Zappos ZN - an iPad-based eCommerce-enabled fashion magazine.
• Tools for visualizing and playing back customer support interactions that occurred with the brand on Twitter
• Technical lead for content-development... more for Zappos ZN - an iPad-based eCommerce-enabled fashion magazine.
• Tools for visualizing and playing back customer support interactions that occurred with the brand on Twitter
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Developer
* Lead migration from Yahoo's YUI2 framework to jQuery.
• Ported mapping systems from Google Maps v2 to v3.
• Broke up single 25k line monolithic JS file in to discrete... more units, and introduced a build process, JSHint style checker & Jasmine for unit testing. Mentored peers on these technologies.
• Created CSS style guide to reduce duplication of styles.
• Ported mapping systems from Google Maps v2 to v3.
• Broke up single 25k line monolithic JS file in to discrete... more units, and introduced a build process, JSHint style checker & Jasmine for unit testing. Mentored peers on these technologies.
• Created CSS style guide to reduce duplication of styles.
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