RICHARD L CRAPAROTTA JR
Austin,Texas
Summary
Dynamic problem-solver with a strong analytical mindset, dedicated to achieving ambitious development goals while delivering high-quality code within tight deadlines. Equipped with exceptional communication skills and a proactive approach to identifying and resolving challenges, ensuring optimal team performance and project success. Detail-oriented and adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously, consistently prioritizing tasks to meet deadlines without compromising accuracy. Committed to continuous learning and professional growth, ready to embrace new challenges that advance organizational objectives and foster team collaboration.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Android Software Engineer II
Yahoo Inc
01.2024 - 01.2025
- As an Android engineer. Designed, built, and updated, features using Kotlin/Java/XML/Jetpack-Compose, consistent with MVI architecture.
- Developed and maintained new and existing features for the Fantasy App and the Sports App code bases.
- Developed and built 4 major features for the “28 days of Fantasy” project initiative, which released a different feature per day over a month. The features I contributed to that initiative are:
- Custom App Launcher Icons, Draft Recap, Keepers League Support, Champion Avatars.
- Contributed to major feature releases that added entire new functionalities and draws to the app. Such as the Daily Draw and Guillotine League features
- Developed and maintained reusable Compose UI components, adding to a playbook of components used throughout the app. Providing the users with a consistent experience, and aided development/design time.
- Performed technical reviews, and pair programming investigative meetings to ensure consistency and quality.
- Performed root-cause analysis and defined sustainable corrective actions, across all areas of both apps. i.e. Manager Comparison table refactor, PDF download issue, Chat Transaction Display, Playoff League Card UI
Android Software Engineer II
WW INC
01.2021 - 01.2024
- As an Android engineer. Designed, built, and updated, features using Kotlin/Java/XML/Jetpack-Compose, consistent with MVI architecture.
- Built and maintained features and screens related to the new onboarding process, and main dashboard. Taking initiative and working with design to ensure deadlines were met.
- Improving app functionality as well as increasing new user retention and daily engagement.
- Conducted investigative reviews on the technical functionality of upcoming projects. Providing feedback to the Design team, and working in tandem to provide the best product.
- Investigated risks caused by new features/data flows, and creating technical documentation describing them.
- Established and maintained authoritative technical documentation, including architecture description, data flow diagrams, and technical standards, to support maintainability and knowledge transfer across teams.
Associate Software Engineer
JPMORGAN CHASE
01.2018 - 01.2021
- As an AIML Software Engineer. Designed and built an AIML NLP brain to process trade inquiries, itemizing key data, and forwarding the results to auto populate fields in a different system. Saving financial traders time.
- Lead and managed the engineering effort consisting of myself and a team of software engineers.
- Provided technical leadership across the engineering team, and multiple client groups with competing requirements and timelines.
- Lead the full software development lifecycle at an architectural/feature implementation level, managing requirement analysis/priorities, long-term maintainability of core features, solution design/implementation approaches, and validation strategies.
- Defined and enforced engineering best practices, coding standards, and design patterns to ensure the delivery of reliable, scalable, and high-quality software across multiple client groups and teams.
- Drove the resolution of complex, high impact technical issues, including performance, and reliability changes. Optimizing the AIML compiler with custom functionality cutting processing time by over 80%.
- Oversaw releases, ID ownership, user permissions, JIRA dashboard organization, for the entire team.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science -
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
01.2013
Skills
- Programming Experience: Kotlin Jetpack Compose AIML Bash
- Additional Programming Proficiencies: C Java Ruby PHP HTML Git Javascript JSON Python
- Operating Systems Experience: OSX Ubuntu Windows
- Version Control & ITSM Tools: Jira Github
- Databases: SQL
Timeline
Android Software Engineer II
Yahoo Inc
01.2024 - 01.2025
Android Software Engineer II
WW INC
01.2021 - 01.2024
Associate Software Engineer
JPMORGAN CHASE
01.2018 - 01.2021
Bachelor of Computer Science -
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY