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Greg Schechter
Greg Schechter, Web Warrior
Greg Schechter's Bio:
Greg Schechter's Experience:
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Fullstack Software Engineer at Boostable
June 2015 - Present | San Francisco, CaAwesome front-end Engineering in React
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Senior Web Developer at Facebook
January 2013 - May 2015 | Menlo Park, CASenior Web Developer on Video Publisher Team Built internal tools for Onavo data analysis Tech Lead for internal JavaScript Data Visualization Framework Developed charts and visualizations for Facebook Insights projects Created Advertising Interfaces for Ads Create Flow
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Web Warrior at Amazon
August 2009 - May 2010*Enhanced the Amazon user base ability to gift, by designing and developing a new gift card ordering interface. *Leading various front-end performance initiatives within the company and across multiple teams. *Assisting with site wide advanced image compression research.
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Core Developer at YouTube
April 2008 - August 2008* Developing new features and feature tweaks for YouTube's Discovery team. * Developed the first iterations of the QuickList Toolbar, which is a persistent bar at the bottom of the screen that allows users to more effectively manage and view their QuickLists and PlayLists. * Leading the proposal to make YouTube the world's largest deployment of semantic markup. * Set up analytics and developed new user interface for YouTubeâs click to buy monetization initiatives.
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Technical Yahoo for Search Submit and Yahoo Widgets Team at Yahoo!
May 2007 - March 2008* Created widgets for the Yahoo Widget gallery. * Automated the billing reports for all of Search Submitâs content providers and resellers. * Developed a variety of hacks which competed in Yahooâs various competitions. * Won Best Hack at Yahoo! Internal Hack Day Summer 2007, the details of which are confidential, as this feature was judged innovative enough to be implemented in the future.
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3GSM System Tester at Motorola
May 2006 - August 2006⢠Conducted tests on many of Motorolaâs upcoming 3G cell phones ⢠Designed and created all software components of an automatic sim dispenser. Using PHP and MySQL I independently created a web-based system where workers can reserve, check out, and check in sims to use for their testing ⢠Assisted in the creation of the new mobile devices system test website. Gathered and formatted contact and region specific information for the international regions of our team.
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Web Warrior (WebDev) at YouTube
June 2010Core member of the Web Developer team. Lead developer and evangelist for the YouTube HTML5 Player. Creater of the JavaScript API for YouTube iframe embeds. Assisted with the development of YouTube Feather, YouTube 3D for HTML5, Live Streaming, and other various projects.
Greg Schechter's Education:
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2005 – 2009BS
Greg Schechter's Interests & Activities:
HTML5, Video, Cat videos, YouTube, Facebook, Birding, herpetology, javascript
