Pandora has a great opportunity for seasoned engineers with several years of diverse experience, and a passion for learning and applying new technical knowledge. You should have outstanding analytical and programming skills, with a deep understanding of large-scale application development. You should have a track record of building robust, scalable, multithreaded applications.
As a member of our highly motivated team you should be dedicated to excellence and have a strong sense of personal responsibility. You place a high value on automated testing and have experience writing your own unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
At Pandora, we're a unique collection of engineers, musicians, designers, marketers, and world-class sellers with a common goal: to enrich lives by delivering effortless personalized music enjoyment and discovery. People—the listeners, the artists, and our employees—are at the center of our mission and everything we do. Actually, employees at Pandora are a lot like the service itself: bright, eclectic, and innovative. Collaboration is the foundation of our workforce, and we’re looking for smart individuals who are self-motivated and passionate to join us. Be a part of the engine that creates the soundtrack to life. Discover your future at Pandora!
Sounds awesome! I love Pandora and would be excited to help innovate with you. I'm all about testing and ensuring the quality of the release.
MARK McQUILLEN
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/markmcquillen GitHub: github.com/makdash49 AngelList: angel.co/mark-mcquillen
>LANGUAGES AND TECHNOLOGIES
● Proficient: JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux, Webpack, Babel, Node.js, Express, Socket.io, Connect, Mocha, Expect,
SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Git, Heroku, AWS (S3), Gulp, jQuery, Unity, C#, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
● Exposure: Python, HTML5, CSS3, Sass
>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
So ware Engineer | River Studios | San Francisco, CA Aug. 2015 - Aug. 2016
● Optimized daily developer workflow process by ~15% through implementing Smart Commits in QA pipeline with GitHub and JIRA integrations.
● Tested 14 Unity virtual reality builds with C# and JIRA providing detailed documentation for bug reproduction.
● Reduced the VR setup time on Android devices by over 50% by engineering automation tools using Python to
download and install APKs from Artifact Server.
● Wrote comprehensive test plans for Unity VR C# systems to provide o shore development team with structure
to test 100% of build functionality.
● Constructed immersive, interactive and intuitive VR experiences (MLK “I have a dream” and IceQuest) utilizing
Unity and C# to experiment with best locomotion mechanics in order to eliminate motion sickness.
Database Project Admin | Cornerstone Research | San Francisco, CA Aug. 2006 - Apr. 2014
● Assisted in client growth of 100% over 5 year period through querying InterAction marketing DB to generate
list reports of potential client attorneys and their fields of expertise for firm advertising campaigns.
● Queried Filesurf DB of over 100,000 digital documents to create document lists included in litigation papers.
● Ensured accuracy of complex economic litigation expert reports in cases worth up to $10 million by formatting
and proofreading to eliminate misunderstanding of content.
QA Analyst | LucasArts | San Rafael, CA Sep. 2005 - Jan. 2006
● Analyzed PC game, “Star Wars: Battlefront II” for gameplay, multiplayer performance, balance, and level
functionality to isolate flaws in geometry, behavior and user experience (UX).
>RECENT PROJECTS
So ware Engineer | Gi Vote | live | code Dec. 2016 Collaborative shopping platform that enables groups of users to discover products they most prefer through live voting.
● Created dynamic UI/UX compatible on 5 major browsers utilizing JavaScript, ReactJS, Redux and Connect.
● Incorporated Amazon-Product-API into Node.js and Express RESTful backend to display product information.
● Enabled real-time updates to all users to be simultaneous utilizing Firebase database and event listeners.
● Designed algorithm in JavaScript to calculate and display user individual and sum all users’ vote percentages.
So ware Engineer | IceQuest | live | code Aug. 2016 Samsung Gear virtual reality game where players fly through a mysterious world, explore and search for hidden treasure.
● Developed locomotion mechanic using C# in Unity that minimizes motion sickness while allowing freedom of movement within a three-dimensional space.
● Published on the Oculus store with special access and blogged about the design process and implementation.
So ware Engineer | FeelsLike | live | code June 2015 Weather platform for travelers to get a feel for the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of a city relative to their hometown.
● Integrated Weather Underground, Forecast.io, and Live Images API’s into Sinatra front-end and Ruby on Rails back-end, combing 7000+ data points to make meaningful comparisons on D3.js graphs.
● Located months when weather is similar in di erent cities by designing comparison algorithm in JavaScript.
>EDUCATION
B.A. Film and Media Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz
San Francisco, CA 415.624.9934 markdmcq@gmail.com
Pandora has a great opportunity for seasoned engineers with several years of diverse experience, and a passion for learning and applying new technical knowledge. You should have outstanding analytical and programming skills, with a deep understanding of large-scale application development. You should have a track record of building robust, scalable, multithreaded applications.
As a member of our highly motivated team you should be dedicated to excellence and have a strong sense of personal responsibility. You place a high value on automated testing and have experience writing your own unit, integration, and acceptance tests.
At Pandora, we're a unique collection of engineers, musicians, designers, marketers, and world-class sellers with a common goal: to enrich lives by delivering effortless personalized music enjoyment and discovery. People—the listeners, the artists, and our employees—are at the center of our mission and everything we do. Actually, employees at Pandora are a lot like the service itself: bright, eclectic, and innovative. Collaboration is the foundation of our workforce, and we’re looking for smart individuals who are self-motivated and passionate to join us. Be a part of the engine that creates the soundtrack to life. Discover your future at Pandora!
We have two open positions on our Ad Yield team, where we are working with Java, Hive/Hadoop, MemSQL, and React to build an Ad Analytics platform. Sr. Software Engineer (Fullstack - Java): https://pandora.com/careers/position?id=ooYb4fwl Sr. Software Engineer (Fullstack - Big Data, ETL): https://pandora.com/careers/position?id=ozOo3fwy