Software Engineer @ From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Software Development Engineer Intern @ Worked as a Software Development Engineer Intern on the Test Drive team (Test Drive launches instances of Android apps on EC2, allowing demos via “the cloud”)
● Owned development of product
● Researched various platforms and frameworks and wrote report summarizing findings and providing recommendations
● Communicated with other teams and set up meetings to ensure compatibility across multiple platforms
● Worked with product manager to design based on business requirements
● Designed user interface--sketching preliminary designs, meeting with UI consultant, and refining based on feedback
● Refactored one of the team’s core products, the version of Test Drive on Amazon’s website, to provide modularity with project code
● Tested code thoroughly, wrote detailed documentation, and presented product to Vice President From June 2012 to August 2012 (3 months) Engineering Practicum Intern @ Worked as an Engineering Practicum Intern on the Google Search Quality team (the team responsible for the ranking of search results)
● Developed proof-of-concept for more personalized Google Search results
● Sought out communication with and received advice from Googlers across multiple teams
● Followed Google code style guidelines and underwent peer code reviews
● Utilized internal source control tools to maintain compatibility with production code
● Designed, implemented, and ran unit tests
● Presented to potential recruits at external event and to management at internal event From July 2011 to August 2011 (2 months) Independent Developer @ Designed and built the fantasy football player ranking Android application “Foobly,” which has been downloaded over 15,000 times
● Published on the Google Play Store and maintained across several major/minor releases
● Communicated directly with users by monitoring, replying to, and acting on consumer feedback via the Android Developer Console, email, and program updates From July 2010 to August 2010 (2 months)
BS, Computer Science and Engineering @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2009 to 2013 TJHSST Paul Woods is skilled in: C, C++, Perl, HTML 5, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Android Development, Flask, SQL, Django, Python, Java, MySQL, OpenGL, Scheme