Joe T.

• Multiple updates to the popular word game from the QI Elves.
• Included a major redesign in 2022 where he pitched, designed and engineered big improvements to the scoring and onboarding systems amongst much else.

• Assisted with the migration of the Barefoot World Atlas app from another developer account.
• Worked with a designer on a major UI refresh, and dramatically decreased the size of the app bundle using On Demand Resources.

Worked across the company's suite of iOS and Android apps, including:

• Digitally reimagined the noted reference work Birds of the Western Palearctic, encompassing over 10,000 species, 20,000 images, and five million words of text, with support for macOS Catalyst.
• Implemented right-to-left language support for the Arabic version of Birds of the Middle East.
• Created an in-house backend and RESTful JSON API to support streaming video playback within the apps.
• Designed and engineered a new native version of the existing bird sightings app BirdGuides, and developed a brand-new bird listings app, Life List by NatureGuides.
• Self-taught Android development in both Kotlin and Java to maintain two apps on the Google Play Store.

• Worked on numerous best-selling apps for iOS at every stage of the development cycle, including:
• Client and server-side work on the Henle sheet music reader and store and the subscription- based Juilliard Open Studios
• Lead engineer on substantial updates to Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Disney Animated and more
• Other challenges included a mission-critical migration to Parse Server hosted on AWS, and creating a prototype physics game for a new client in just two weeks