Eryn Wells

Experience

2016 to present

iOS Accessibility Engineer

Implemented several new features and improvements to core accessible technologies on iOS
Drove the implementation of many improvements to first party apps, and worked with app teams within Apple to enhance their support for our platform.
Participated in developer outreach at conferences (WWDC) and onsite events to promote the value of making software accessible and answer developer questions

2014 to 2016

iOS Engineer, Lumosity

Migrated from a proprietary navigation implementation in C++ to UIKit components and established patterns for further development
Refactored several components of the core Lumosity experience from C++ to UIKit
Authored process document describing our code review and QA approval process for patches
Implemented 1v1 competition feature, which had a greater than 50% engagement rate

Member of Technical Staff

2012 to 2014

Restructured keyboard input handling to improve code architecture and accommodate multiple clients of our OS X UI library
Redesigned outdated first-run and trial experiences to improve initial impressions, and make it easier to try Fusion
Exposed Cocoa configuration UI for a USB device arbitration library written in C (through our platform-independent C++ library, and OS X-specific Objective-C library)

2011 to 2012

Engineered an extensive rewrite of VDT to incorporate a new deployment backend relying on VMware vCloud Director, and to allow greater flexibility in how deployments are created
Implemented stabilization fixes in the View Deployment Tool (VDT), which is responsible for deploying instances of the View product during automated testing
Completed and stabilized system tests designed to exercise several of View’s provisioning features

2006 to 2010

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science with Honors, GPA 3.62 of 4.0

C++, graphics

Ray tracer written in C++11, utilizing libpng for output and libyaml for scene configuration.
Implemented perspective projection camera model, and ray intersection algorithms for a variety of geometric primitives.
Researched and implemented basic Lambert and Blinn lighting algorithms.

Cocoa/AppKit, Metal, texture generation, graphics

Leveraged Metal's compute and graphics pipelines to generate a pixel perfect 2D texture based on the Metaballs concept.
Implemented a variety of color blending modes to render the metaballs in interesting ways.
Planed a 3D implementation using the Marching Cubes algorithm.

C++, operating systems

Rust, programming languages

Skills ranked in order of experience

Languages: Objective-C, C, C++, Python, Rust, Swift
Frameworks: UIKit, Cocoa, Django
Tools: Vim, Git, Xcode, Perforce, Review Board
Spoken Languages: English, Spanish, French
Conferences: WWDC 2014–2017, PyCon 2012, She's Geeky 2012
Interests: Calligraphy, cooking, gardening, piano, programming languages, graphics, yoga