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Jimmy Alexander
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Location: San Francisco Bay AreaApprox. Years of Experience: 23
Jimmy Alexander's Current Workplace
Snap Inc.
Company Size
2500+
Amount Raised
$4.9B
Snap is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. The Company's three core products are Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world; Lens Studio, an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses, Spectacles.
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Notable Investors
Tencent, Alibaba Group, General Atlantic, GIC, T. Rowe Price
Wearables
Social Media
Augmented Reality
Consumer Software
Experience
Software Engineer
Snap Inc. · Full-time
Jun 2023 - Present
1 yr 11 mos
Staff Software Engineer
Lyft · Full-time
Oct 2019 - Jun 2023
3 yrs 9 mos
- Led 0 -> 1 effort to build Lyft Rentals on Android. - Mobile Tech Lead for 4 different product teams - Owned Backend Engineering for Lyft Rentals Risk Screening. - Tech Lead for Electrification team
Software Engineer
Dropbox
Oct 2016 - Aug 2019
2 yrs 11 mos
- Android developer for features and foundational improvements on Dropbox Paper Android application. Was able to help modernize codebase for better maintainability and productivity. - Joined company as sole developer to develop experimental new product on Android as well as prototyping the product for Windows. Had broad impact in terms of development and mobile infrastructure. - Organized lunch sessions for all mobile developers to learn from videos, talks, blogs and discussing over lunch. - Founding member of effort getting Android developers across products and teams to better share learnings and solutions. - Shared mobile engineering expertise such as RxJava, Dagger2, TDD, Clean Architecture, and Unidirectional architecture with other mobile developers within company. - On occasion delving into Typescript for cross platform solutions.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Skype
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
2 yrs 1 mo
- Application Development on Skype for Android. - Application Development on Windows Universal app framework and Silverlight Phone framework. - Drive and review architectural and design decisions for development team. - Mock unit testing and Test Driven Development. - Working in team with agile development process.
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
Microsoft
May 2007 - Sep 2014
7 yrs 5 mos
- Design and develop automated software frameworks and tests to validate Windows Phone OS components. - Features owned in Windows Phone: VoIP, Background Tasks, Navigation, Screen Composition, and GWES (user32 API set for Windows CE) - Identify, investigate, and root cause bugs in product and test code. - Quality assurance ownership on OS components. - Provide reviews on specs, designs, and code changes.
Manager
Sam & R Enterprise
2002 - Jun 2006
4 yrs 6 mos
Education
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    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign