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5766 Ayala Ave, Oakland, CA 94609
Tina Wen
(857) 204-3104
Objective
Seeking a fulltime position as a senior iOS developer
Experience
Dropbox, Software Engineer(August 11 - current)San Francisco, CA
  • Undisclosed iOS Application - Built a new, undisclosed app on top of chromium for cross platform support. Utilized new Apple technologies such as Swift and Storyboards.
  • Carousel iOS - Wrote Dropbox's Carousel iOS app from scratch. Created a skeleton that myself and other team members filled in. Solved some technical challenges imposed on mobile. Responsible for building various project pieces, including Carousel's key strategic feature - conversations.
  • Dropbox Web - Built and released large-scale, user visible features such as cross platform notifications. Wrote many unit tests to maintain a large, complicated system that we built and developed.
  • Dropbox Core iOS App - Designed, implemented, and shipped game changing features such as camera upload and large file upload for the Dropbox iPhone and iPad apps, largely working solo.
    • Microsoft Office For Mac, Software Engineer(September 09 - August 11)Mountain View, CA
  • Architected, designed, and developed features for Outlook For Mac using Objective-C (Cocoa) and C++.
  • Area of responsibility included contacts, accounts, and distribution list expansion for mail and calendar.
  • Shipped Office for Mac 2011.
    • Microsoft Mediaroom, Software Intern(Summer 08)Mountain View, CA
    NVIDIA, Hardware Intern(Summer of 06 and 07)Santa Clara, CA
    Projects
    iOS 7 Fishing Game with Live Design Updates(August 13)San Francisco, CA
    Used Dropbox datastore as a backend to support live updating design properties such as color, speed, and animation duration through a web interface as a proof of concept. The updates are shown up instantly in the running iPhone app.
    Home Dashboard with Raspberry Pi(March 13)San Francisco, CA
    Built a home security system with a Raspberry Pi and a web cam that takes pictures of my home every second if light conditions are acceptable and I'm not at home as determined by Google Latitude. Uploads the pictures to Dropbox and automatically cleans up old pictures every day.
    Dropbox Menu Site for the Cafeteria(February 12)San Francisco, CA
    Built a menu website that allows company chefs to add/edit/delete daily menus and makes the menus viewable on the cafeteria flat screen TV, through a browser, and via an API. This has been live for 3 years and is still in use today!
    Languages
    C/Objective-C, Swift, Python, CoffeeScript/JS, SCSS/CSS
    Education
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology GPA 5.0/5.0 Cambridge, MA
    Masters of Engineering and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (04 - 09)
    Press
    Orin, Andy. I'm Tina Wen, Engineer at Dropbox, and This Is How I Work." Lifehacker. N.p., 18 June 2014.
    Publications
  • M.A. Kinsy, M.H. Cho, T. Wen, E. Suh, M. Van Dijk, and S. Devadas. "Application-aware deadlock-free oblivious routing."ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News, 37(3):208-219, 2009.
  • K.S.Shim, M.H.Cho, M.Kinsy, T.Wen, M.Lis, GE Suh, and S.Devadas. "Static virtual channel allocation in oblivious routing."In Networks-on-Chip, 2009. NoCS 2009. 3rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on, pages 28-43. IEEE, 2009.
  • M.H.Cho, M.Lis, K.S.Shim, M.Kinsy, T.Wen and S.Devadas. "Oblivious routing in on-chip bandwidth-adaptive networks."In Parallel Architecture and compilation Techniques, 2009. PACT'09. 18th International Conference on, pages 181-190. IEEE, 2009.
    • Hobbies
    Dancing, ultimate, snowboarding/skiing, zumba, climbing