Janet Brumbaugh

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science (1982 - 1984)
University of California, Santa Cruz

Experience

Senior Software Engineer at Bobcat Technologies, Inc. (Apr 2015 - Present)
Developed a music service Android SDK and companion demo app. The SDK uses Retrofit and RxKotlin to connect to the Spotify Web API, using Kotlin data classes to handle the JSON requests and responses. Architected the SDK to provide an externally available set of API's for mobile applications to use. Developed an Artificial Intelligence Text Recognition app for Android that uses a custom camera to take a picture of a document containing text, and use FireBase MLKit Text Recognition to recognize text. Developed custom QR Code application for iOS, with support for Apple TV. It uses Apple's Core Image graphics to customize, transform and scale the image. Developed WhatsThis, an Android app that uses Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, and Speech. Responsible for designing an easy to use UI/UX that is intuitive, and attractive. It uses a custom camera to allow users to snap a picture, or users can select an existing image from their device's gallery. When an image is recognized, it's name will be spoken. Google Play Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bobcattechnologies.whatsthis Responsible for development for VuSpex iOS and Android apps for building contractors and inspectors. The UI displays Real-Time video so a remote inspector can see a contractor's work without having to come onsite. The UI displays a main menu, allowing contractors to schedule inspections, and check the strength of the network connection. Remote inspectors start the video connection using a push notification that the app receives, and then starts the video connection. Apple Store Link :https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vuspex/id959013474 Google Play Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vuspex.contractor.prod Developed MyRecordings : A recording & playback app. The UI/UX was designed to make this app very easy and quick to use while also being feature rich, and beautiful. Awarded Reviewers' Choice Winner for 2012 on FileDir.com! * Note that this app used to be named 'My Voice Recorder', and is listed under the old name on FileDir.com Google Play Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbrumbaugh.myvoicerecorder Apple Store Link : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myrecordings-pro-voice-recorder/id1157715875?mt=8 Allows users to pause and resume playback and recording. Supports multiple formats. Users can share recordings, set as ringtones, concatenate, rename and delete. The Android app has a companion wearable. Developed iOS framework and Android SDK that uses a custom camera and facial recognition. Data is sent to the server using JSON through HTTP REST calls. Took over development for the Android SDK and later ported it to the iOS framework. The application's UI/UX guides the user through easy steps to use the camera inside of a special frame so the facial recognition can capture their face in a series of video frames. Developed SHYFT Power Mobile, an Android app developed for the Berkeley Cleantech University Prize Competition ( Feb. 2017 ). The product won first place. Google Play Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trysolstice.mobile The UI is easy to use and attractive, with charts and tables, that allow the user to easily see their energy usage, and be able to make budgeting decisions. Developed full-stack web development project using ReactJS. Back-end is Firebase. Uses Google Maps API on the front-end. Developed / architected full-stack web app. The stack was ReactJS, GraphQL, Node.js, Dgraph. Built two map based apps for both Android and iOS. The Android app uses the Google Maps API. The iOS map is developed with Swift and uses the MapKit Framework and CoreData. Integrated Firebase and Geofire into both apps.

Senior Android Engineer at Earth Networks (Nov 2014 - May 2015)
Responsible for adding new features for the WeatherBug Android app, including a widget, and UI/UX improvements. Developed a new OOP based framework for re-useable views that utilized Android Fragments.

Senior Mobile Engineer at Modis Staffing (Mar 2014 - Nov 2014)
Senior Android Developer for Modis Staffing. Work was performed for Mobeam, Inc. Responsible for Research and Development for new features for the Beep'nGo Android application ( currently 5 million downloads ). Added new features for shortcuts and widgets. Researched and implemented custom camera with the auto-focus feature using the Android Camera API's. Added capability to scan in new types of barcodes such as the PDF417 format. Principal Android Engineer for Android and iOS SDKs. Developed for Bunndle, Inc. Responsible for designing and implementing Android and iOS SDK's. Features include SQLite databases, callbacks / delegates, JavaScript interfaces for web view controls, asynchronous operations , http networking, and JSON.

Senior Mobile Engineer at Bundle (Mar 2013 - Nov 2013)
Responsible for architecting and developing Android and iOS SDK and demonstration apps that use the SDK's.

Android Lead Engineer at MyRete (Aug 2019 - Aug 2019)
Principal / Lead Android Engineer for 'WhosHere', a location based social networking Android App with over 1,000,000 downloads. Google Play Link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whoshere.whoshere Responsible for design, architecture and development. Allows users to live chat, share pictures, and browse lists of members based on GPS location. Technical features include the GPS LocationManager, Push Notifications, Content Providers such as MediaStore and ContactManager, the CameraManager, networking, JSON, multi-threading, asynchronous callbacks, and SQLite database. The UI includes animations and scrolling list views containing downloaded images.