Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs · San Francisco, CA

• YC W22. Buy/sell NFTs via credit card. Acquired.
• Winter is building a checkout that helps businesses sell NFTs via credit card. We also help manage the NFT for the consumer if they don't have a wallet! Interested? Email me at michael (at) usewinter.com

Jan 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Menlo Park

• AR Commerce - Kickstarted our 0 to 1 AR Commerce effort. Defined AR commerce product experience and built partnerships with big brands (MAC cosmetics, L'Oreal, Walmart). Built Facebook's first AR API with big brands. Helped define Facebook's AR ads strategy.
• Facebook Stories - Drove millions of meaningful connections on FB Stories by improving the discovery and viewing experience.

Aug 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Worked on mobile backend, tackling hard problems like instant push notifications and personalization. Helped rearchitect backend from monolith to microservices.
• Worked on the main Zillow Real Estate app for Android.
• Worked on both the Android and iOS Zillow Mortgage Marketplace app and on the iOS Zillow Digs app.

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Kansas City, MO

• Worked on fetal heart monitoring software on iPad and iPhone for doctors and physicians (FetaLink+)
• Worked on front end in Objective C and helped work on back end in JAVA (Hadoop and Storm)
• Travelled to client sites to help consult and install software onto client systems
• Gave one of the most popular talks at a 2-day conference for software developers (DevCon)

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · College Park, MD

• Researched use of electromagnetic interference in audio and video recordings to determine location of recording and time of recording in relation to power grids (East, West, Texas)
• Recorded audio in multiple locations (MD, NY, CA) with hardware that I developed and built by hand
• Presented findings at a conference
• Mentioned in research paper