Grant Brooks Goodman

• Served as lead engineer on myriad new features both within the Pandora and SiriusXM iOS products, delivering critical updates to millions of users across a plethora of feature domains.

• Upgraded a core third-party analytics SDK with zero data loss and long-term configuration stability by coordinating closely with cross-functional partners and vendors.

• Led development of major in-app purchase and subscription features, including multi-offer onboarding, a redesigned paywall flow, and an end-to-end subscription management experience integrated with StoreKit.

• Designed and implemented modular services and client models that streamlined offer retrieval, purchase flows, entitlement checks, and cross-team integration.

• Implemented an automated Jira workflow that posts pull request details directly to corresponding tickets upon merge, improving traceability, reducing manual updates, and tightening communication between engineering and product. Survey results indicated over 60% improvement in workflow efficiency for Quality Engineers.

• Developed daily fitness challenge app in Swift from ground up to MVP in 1.5 months.

• Implemented Firebase backend with push notification support, letting team leaders send announcements to their teams.

• Integrated fully-featured content management system (CMS) allowing administrators to dynamically manage content in-app.

• Used cronjobs to tie Airtable data to backend, allowing team leaders to easily post challenges with automatically updating metadata.

• Taught computer science to children and young adults aged 7-18.
• Mentored students in topics ranging from convolutional neural networks to efficient algorithm design.

• Gained experience teaching Java, JavaScript, Python, and Scratch.

• Offered debugging assistance to and mentored students learning Swift from ages 15 to 30+.

• Led workshops on UI design, code style, App Store submission, and more.

• Youngest employee ever hired by the Y-Combinator funded company.

• Created app to facilitate direct communication between rural schools & local farms in support of the farm-to-school initiative.

• Documented development process for local students to maintain and update the code.

• Demoed final product with Apple's National Education Development Team for Lake Placid school board to rave reviews.

• Implemented myriad new actions in response to user feature requests, simplifying the creation of advanced Workflow scripts.

• Was the first and only intern in the company of MIT-dropout-turned-Thiel-fellow founders.

• Acquired by Apple in 2017 and now exists as Shortcuts, pre-installed on all iOS devices today.