Maciej Lato

• Developed 3D printing preparation software, support strut generation (ReactJS, three.js).
• Integrated UI automation testing into Carbon’s software stack (Cypress, https://www.cypress.io/).
• Developed a ReactJS component system for Carbon’s print preparation and 3D authoring software.
• Interviewed engineering candidates.

Software engineer for Google Web Designer - https://webdesigner.withgoogle.com/

• GWD is an HTML authoring tool for creating web content, focused on ad authoring for Google Ads, DoubleClick, etc. ("photoshop" for ads).
• JavaScript-based desktop application in a Chromium shell, written in Polymer (views, http://www.polymer-project.org), and Closure (Google).
• Strong collaboration with UX and product teams. Producing intuitive and powerful UIs to address product and user needs.
• Developed an authoring workflow and JavaScript runtime for configuring component attributes based on the document's viewport size (responsive attributes). The result: creative documents were smaller (avg. 8%), loaded faster (avg. 5%), and the responsive authoring workflow was simplified drastically.
• Rewrote GWD's entire component library to adhere to current web standards (Custom elements v1, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#custom-elements), including: galleries, pagedecks, particle effects, image effects components. Upgraded creatives were smaller, ran faster (avg. 8%), and did not require a polyfill for modern browsers.
• Other areas of work: component event system, undo/redo stack, template gallery, component configuration and development, stage manipulation.
• Areas of focus: web technologies, responsive web, content authoring, content publishing, HTML rendering, high-performance HTML5 documents, web animations (CSS keyframes), web polyfills, cross-browser compatibility, usability, accessibility.

Google DSP Work (Dart programming language):

• Develop in-browser authoring experience (creative configurator) for creating web ads.
• Integrate with existing content management systems to allow users to share their documents and multimedia assets.
• Allow users to export content directly from Google Web Designer to the DSP.

Misc responsibilities:

• Training new hires
• Interviewing engineering candidates

Joined Yahoo following their acquisition of BrightRoll in Q42014

• UI engineer on Yahoo's demand-side ad platform (YAM+, written in Ember.js).
• Marketplace research for publisher tools.

UI engineer on BrightRoll's demand-side ad platform for video (written in CanJS)

• Implemented new UI features in the DSP as part of a cross-functional team (UI, API, Data).
• Worked with UX engineers to create intuitive user interfaces for managing ad campaigns.
• Refactored major parts of the application to perform version upgrades, fix memory and test issues.
• Scrum master - leading project tasking and execution for UI & API projects.

Service engineer on the Outlook.com team (Hotmail)

• Analyze Outlook.com service metrics related to service performance and user engagement.
• Created a service metrics dashboard and alerting system featuring JavaScript-powered visualizations (D3.js). The reduced the time to discovery for service issues.
• Deployed systems designed for data feed ingestion and processing (data aggregation, sentiment analysis, etc).
• Served as on-call support for service interruptions related to Outlook.com.

Service engineer intern on the Outlook.com team (Hotmail)

• Created a web portal for service engineers to use while analyzing service performance data (D3.js, ASP.NET).
• Searched for trends in large data sets to detect Outlook.com performance issues.

• Led an Android research project utilizing I/O capabilities of current generation smartphones.
• Researched car collisions, collecting data from OBD-II on-board car diagnostic interfaces.
• State Farm Hack Day 2012 Winner