Tiger Oakes

Technologies and Languages

• TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Kotlin, Java, C#, Python
• React, Node.js, Android, AWS, SQL, Deno
• Data structures and algorithms, API design, engineering best practices, unit testing

Experience

Microsoft, Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Loop

• Led team of 6 to re-architect web product experience, resulting in tripled user engagement.
• Coached 80+ engineers, wrote documentation, gave tech talks to significantly raise quality of testing, performance, & accessibility in high-traffic, high-scale web application.
• Reduced thousands of developer man-hours by writing detailed tech specs and clear designs ahead of time.
• Shipped multiple Copilot AI apps in just 2 months by rapidly prototyping and guiding peers on JS, React, CSS needs.

Microsoft, Software Engineer II

• Unblocked 5 features now used by millions of users by inventing virtualization system for thousands of pages.
• Created stronger automated testing culture by building better testing tools, documentation, & improving peer review processes.
• Reduced bugs in design to engineering handoff by creating new Figma token libraries and internal tools for designers.

Microsoft, Software Engineer

• Doubled rendering performance company-wide by leading design language & UI framework migration process with design, product, and engineering partners in 3 orgs and multiple teams.
• Caught and prevented hundreds of bugs in 5,000+ files by introducing and implementing automated tooling.

Mozilla, Android Engineer - Firefox

• Built and shipped brand new web browser in Kotlin to 100M+ users on Google Play Store.
• Partnered with engineers at Google, Intel, and Apple to add maskable icon support to Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.
• Featured Firefox in front of hundreds at Chrome Dev Summit 2019 keynote by adding Trusted Web Activity support.
• Set web, Android, and iOS interaction standards as World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Invited Expert.
• Onboarded 5K+ developers onto Compose UI by writing React to Compose dictionary docs.

Google, Android Engineering Intern - Chrome for Android

• Increased new user retention and saved 100+ KB by building internal tool to analyze millions of Java APK methods.
• Prevented significant release schedule delays by identifying Java resource limits that were nearly exceeded.

Yelp, Fullstack Engineer Intern

Community Projects

Open Source

• Built Maskable.app, industry standard tool recommended by Google & CSS Tricks, used 11,000+ times/month.
• Automatically stopped common bugs for 32M+ engineers/week by writing linter rules, such as in typescript-eslint.
• Made it easier to ship Android apps in Google Bubblewrap & Microsoft PWABuilder, used 2,000+ times/month.
• Produced Big Island Buses offline web app with County of Hawai'i, which won Congressional App Challenge 2014.

Speaking and Writing

• Speaker at JSConf Budapest, React Summit, CascadiaJS, and HalfStack conferences with thousands of attendees.
• Wrote articles for MDN, Google web.dev, and CSS Tricks – the biggest frontend resources with audience of 10,000+.
• Authored guidebook on MockK testing library for Kotlin and Android, with 20,000+ views/month.
• Wrote React to Jetpack Compose Dictionary, resource recommended by Android team to new developers.
• Mentoring new software developers through volunteering at Ada Developers Academy.

Education

University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

• Worked at 5 software engineering internships through Canada co-op program.