New York, New York, United States
I help visionary innovators bring abundance and economic freedom to the rest of us. As Lead Mobile Engineer at Frec.com, I build tech that unlocks wealth-building via Direct Indexing—a tax-efficient alternative to ETFs. MINI-RESUME: CS Masters, SW Engineer with over 10 years of experience working from early stage to post-exit startups, focused on consumer mobile & web apps. Co-founded LabLyfe, a mobile wellness app (acquired by Care/of). ATTITUDE: My mission as an engineer is to transform the founder’s vision into reality. My key differentiator is understanding product and business needs, enabling me to make technical decisions that drive ROI. My experience as a tech lead, my influence on product decisions across companies of different scales, and my success as a co-founder have shaped my ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, emphasizing innovation, team growth, critical thinking, and problem-solving. EXPERTISE: Skilled in building mobile apps (native SDK & React Native) from the ground-up (full-stack / Node.js), and in front-end web app development (React/Next.js). Experience in project management, and agile methodologies, with a focus on leading mobile projects and team performance optimization, and an obsession for ease of use and quality. TOP SKILLS: Leadership: people management & career development, team building, recruiting. Technical: iOS, Android, React Native, Full-Stack development, Node.js, GraphQL, React, Next.js, Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS), Firebase. Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, OKRs. NEW SKILLS & INTERESTS: AI: LangChain, OpenAI, HuggingFace, RAG, Vector databases, TTS (Amazon Polly, ElevenLabs). Blockchain/Crypto: DePIN, RWA, Base chain, Remix IDE, Solidity. ENVIRONMENT: Human: honesty, candor, thoughtfulness, being yourself. Tech: MacOS, git, Warp, Xcode, Android Studio, Cursor, Claude, Vercel, GCP, AWS, Firebase, Figma, Asana.
Currently, I oversee the mobile dev team with two direct reports, while also acting as the tech lead for the retention pod, which includes two backend engineers. My responsibilities cover: * Growing my direct reports through early delegation and entrusting responsibility, providing a safe space for failure and rapid learning via radical candor. * Maintaining a team environment aligned with Care/of's core values: Be humble, be honest, be thoughtful, and be different. * Facilitating project management tasks, such as assessing feasibility and risks, roadmapping, refinement, and sometimes running daily stand-ups. * Ensuring the team effectively delivers new features and bug fixes, prioritizing UX and customer satisfaction through engineering best practices. * Assisting in the QA process and helping to prioritize issues. * Coordinating the mobile team's efforts across overarching projects, ensuring alignment with OKRs. * Keeping the team focused on achieving business priorities, ensuring that all efforts contribute to our strategic objectives while maintaining a high standard. * Participating in on-call rotations on both mobile and web platforms. Achievements: Recruited a mid-level eng. and facilitated the release of their initial code changes in under a month and their first independently developed feature in less than two months. Guided their progression from a mid-level to a senior level in both mindset and performance through trust, experiential mentoring, and radical candor. Guided the team in developing and launching a beta of a new sleep tracking app, from concept to TestFlight release, within 3 months. Directly responsible for developing a native module to process HealthKit data. Worked with a data scientist to port a python module for calculating a proprietary sleep score. Led and contributed to a comprehensive revamp of our app, integrating new functionalities to support routines and reflections, in addition to existing vitamin tracking features.
Continued to lead the mobile engineering team and subsequently becoming tech lead of the Retention pod. Collaborated closely with the Director of Product Management and the UI/UX design team to make strategic technical decisions. Our work centered around developing entirely new features using a rapid iteration, OKR-driven development approach. * Demonstrated project management capabilities, coordinating effectively across tasks and teams. * Successfully delivered new features and addressed bugs within strict deadlines. * Launched new app versions tailored to specific user groups and conversion paths. * Directed the mobile team's transition to an updated subscription model and integration with new internal APIs, ensuring thorough stakeholder coordination and comprehensive quality assurance processes. * Implemented several A/B tests to refine user experience and enhance app functionality. * Resolved challenging performance issues that were difficult to pinpoint, which were ultimately traced back to third-party libraries, and executed a hard rollback of React Native upgrades. * Actively participated in on-call rotations, triaging incidents across both mobile and web platforms.
Shifted focus to Care/of's main subscriber app, aiming to enhance its stability, quality, and user retention through the introduction of habit-building and self-reflection features. * Addressed and resolved critical bugs and crashes, enhancing app performance. * Updated to the latest frameworks and dependencies, conducted extensive code refactoring. * Recruited a Senior Software Engineer and served as the technical lead, assisting in managing project tasks such as feasibility studies, task refinement, roadmap planning, and progress tracking, with direct reporting to the CTO and the Director or Product Management. * Led the development and launch of the app on Android. * Implemented end-to-end (e2e) testing using Detox. As of April 2024, the Care/of app is rated 4.8 stars with over 20k ratings on the Apple App Store, and 4.7 stars with over 1k ratings on Google Play Store. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/care-of-build-healthy-habits/id1273387955 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.takecareof.app
I co-founded LabLyfe as the CTO with a mission to help people understand the effects that activities and products have on their health. We developed a wellness self-experimentation platform that simplifies conducting N of 1 tests. These tests allow users to assess how activities such as meditation and intermittent fasting, or products like supplements and CBD, truly affect their wellbeing across various domains. By aggregating anonymous data, we were able to demonstrate the impact of experiments on others' health outcomes.
Smart Alec, Inc. was an innovative ed-tech startup that provided an online marketplace for booking private tutoring sessions across various academic subjects and test preparation. Initially hired as a Senior Mobile Engineer, I played a key role in designing and developing user-friendly iOS and Android apps for both students and tutors, using native Objective-C and Java SDKs, and React Native. As my responsibilities grew, I transitioned into a tech lead position, contributing significantly to the development of core features also on the (AngularJS) web platform. This included refining the booking and checkout processes and creating intuitive dashboards for students and tutors. I collaborated closely with the CEO and CTO to plan new projects, prioritize tasks, and make informed product decisions. Additionally, I led initiatives to optimize our website's SEO, overseeing a complete redesign of the homepage that resulted in increased conversion rates from our advertising channels. As part of our SEO strategy, I collaborated on creating an AMP-compliant landing page generator synced with Google Sheets, which enabled us to publish thousands of keyword-optimized pages in just minutes.
In 2016, I was honored to be one of eleven Italian engineers chosen for a scholarship by CNI-ISSNAF, leading to an internship at NASA GSFC under the supervision of Dr. Eleonora Troja, where I focused on enhancing a pipeline for detection and classification of astronomical events (transients) over images from RATIR - an imaging module that was installed on the Johnson telescope at the Observatory Astronómico Nacional in Mexico. https://ratir.astroscu.unam.mx/ My contributions included: * Fixing bugs in the pipeline using Python, Numpy, and Astropy, making it more reliable. * Breaking down and repackaging the code to make it easier to use and download through PyPi. * Creating scripts for easy setup on new computers and preparing a virtual machine image with Vagrant for better distribution. * Writing detailed documentation to help scientists use and improve the pipeline. This remarkable experience provided me with a unique glimpse into time-domain astronomy, the study of gamma-ray bursts and their connection to gravitational waves. https://github.com/maxperry/photometrypipeline https://ratir.astroscu.unam.mx/