| Yelp · Full Stack Android Developer on the Search User Experience Team |
San Francisco CA, USA
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Sept. 2016 to Current
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- Wrote a series of blog posts on android app performance:
https://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2018/05/android-search-perf-improvements-part-1.html - Won an internal company hackathon for a feature in the app that would allow users
to point their camera at a business' sign and be taken to the business' Yelp page - Improved search results rendering performance on Android by 160ms
- Improved backend performance in search results by 25% reducing response time by 500ms
- Coordinated projects and ran experiments on the home screen of the Yelp Android app
- Created dashboards and alerts through Splunk for key search metrics
- Technologies: Python, Java, SQL, Kotlin, JavaScript, SASS, Splunk
| Yelp · Frontend Web Development Intern |
San Francisco CA, USA
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May 2015 to Aug. 2015,
May 2015 to Aug. 2015
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- Worked on the development of frontend user-facing components for yelp.com
- Contributed to the yelp web frontend styleguide and refactored pages to make them responsive and cross-browser compatible
- Technologies: Python, JavaScript, CSS, SASS, Google Closure
| Globe Electric Company · Web Developer |
Montreal QC, Canada
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May 2014 to Sept. 2014
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- Replaced existing Magento store with updated responsive store which led to a 50% increase in traffic and increased mobile sales.
- Led the front end development of the project.
- Technologies: HTML, SASS, JavaScript, Magento Community, MySQL, Adobe Phtoshop and Illustrator, Piwik, Stripe, JIRA, BitBucket, Git
| Ericsson Canada · Software Developer |
Montreal QC, Canada
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Sept. 2013 to Dec. 2013
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Contributed to the development of an internal tool used to configure IMS nodes. Worked in an agile team environment developing new product features and writing bug-fixes. Followed the standard practices of test driven development and wrote JUnit test-cases in Java and JavaScript.
- Technologies: RequireJS, HTMLUnit, JUnit, JIRA, Gerrit, Handlebars, Jenkins, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS
| tylerargo.com |
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This is my personal website where you can find all information about my extracurricular projects and the events I attend.
- http://github.com/argo49 is where you can find the code for most of my personal projects
| Co-founder and VP of Technology at HackConcordia |
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Current and founding member of a student-run organization dedicated to fostering a community of student developers that love to build things. We successfully organized the first ConUHacks in January 2016. Here's a list of some of the Hackathons I've been to:
- HackTheNorth (University of Waterloo) 2014 & 2015, Y-Hack (Yale University) 2013 & 2014, Montreal Startup Weekend, WearHacks, UofT Hacks, McHacks 2015 & 2016, San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking
| PasswordCanary.com |
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PasswordCanary scrapes websites like pastebin to find malicous email/password dumps made by hackers and then emails people who have signed up if it finds their email in the dump. See it in action: http://challengepost.com/software/passwordcanary-com (Y-Hack 2014)
- Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TwitterAPI, PHP, MySQL
| Scarlet |
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A personal assistant web application and Android app that uses text-to-speech and different APIs to help you through your day (UofTHacks Microsoft Prize Winner).
- Technologies: NodeJS, HTML, CSS, Intel Edison, CleverBot, Google Chrome Voice API