Andrew Masters
Software Engineer
About
From being homeschooled in a small town in Arizona to graduating from the University of California, San Diego, my journey has been anything but conventional. I started my academic journey studying Computer Science at Foothill College before transferring to UC San Diego, where I earned a B.A. in International Business with a Minor in Computer Science.
Today, I work as a Software Engineer building iOS products for front facing users, and develop and maintain my own iOS apps while continuing to expand my knowledge in various areas of computer science.
Outside of all the coding, I enjoy playing basketball and gaming.
Career
Synchrony Financial
October 2022 - Present
Maintained and developed new features for SyPI, a large-scale iOS plugin application that supports multiple B2B clients and their millions of users, utilizing Swift.
Conducted code reviews and upheld engineering standards, mentoring junior developers to uphold quality and best practices in coding.
Worked with backend engineers to integrate API services, ensuring seamless functionality.
Emphasized high code quality by writing comprehensive unit and integration tests, leading to reduction in bugs and stable production releases.
MealMe
December 2021 - October 2022
Developed and largely refactored the MealMe iOS application supporting thousands of daily users, utilizing Swift, SwiftUI and MapKit.
Closely collaborated with product and design teams to build new and innovative application experiences for the iOS platform through efficient memory management and multithreading techniques.
Conducted performance debugging resulting in a 90% decrease in app crashes and 75% improvement in load times.
Monitored the MealMe app in production, analyzing telemetry and crash reports to address bugs and continually optimize performance.
Internships
Appetizer Mobile
Summer 2020
Increased precision of Apple Maps usage, improved API calls, and cleaned up frontend written using Obj-C and CocoaPods.
Built backend of payment services with Stripe's API using Node.js and Swift to improve the payment experience.
Led technical presentation to client executives concerning app's data flow, underlining technical details, and security measures.
Postered
February 2019 - April 2020 (PART-TIME)
Designed and built frontend of AR app for users to "try sunglasses before buying" using ARKit and Swift.
Managed team of four software engineering students to build backend for data management, optimizing AR object file pull from server and improving usage of AR object on human face.
Continuously located and imporved frontend and backend for better performance.
Kypher
December 2017 - April 2018 (PART-TIME)
Closed security loopholes of login system using Swift.
Improved frontend messaging system and added encryption for messages using Swift.
Collaborated with company President and senior secuirty engineer to ensure the secuirty and privacy of user's data usage in-app.
Joule IQ
October 2017 - December 2017 (PART-TIME)
Built IOT company's first Swift based iOS app from scratch as sole iOS Engineer.
Developed BLE integration in Swift to talk to company's IOT device with live in-app UX changes.
iOS app helped demonstrate company IOT device and acquire clients.
Education
University of California, San Diego
09/18 - 06/21 - BA International Business
Minor in Computer Science
Foothill College
09/16-06/18 - No Degree
Computer Science Focus
iOS Apps
iKeys
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