docs: Update resume with more professional language #1
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This whole section is a meta-experiment. I'm not a dedicated web dev, but building this site has been fun. This resume as a mock GitHub PR is a way of practicing Astro components while providing some tongue-in-cheek 'inside scoops' on the typical resume refinement process.
🎯 What Changed
Reframed conversational "war stories" into concise, professional, and quantifiable accomplishments to maximize signal-to-noise ratio.
💡 Why
If this were a real PR, I'd be optimizing for bots and people
✅ Testing
•✅ Ran it through the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) keyword sieve
•✅ Confirmed the buzzword density is high enough for the robots, low enough for the humans
•✅ Checked for potential over-use of "synergy" or "pivot" (Zero-tolerance policy applied)
resume.md
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# Jeremy Kliphouse
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Mobile Engineering Manager • iOS and Android • Technical Leadership
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## Summary
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Mobile Engineering Manager with a strong record of shipping native mobile products, building cross-platform teams, and helping developers grow into high performers while shaping teams into high-trust, high-output groups. Expert in native iOS and Android development with experience in scalable system design, Agile development, CI/CD pipelines, and aligning engineering with product goals.
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## Experience
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### Mobile Engineering Manager / Staff Engineer — Hatch, Palo Alto, CA
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*May 2023 – Present*
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Manage 6 Android and iOS engineers building the Restore platform. Balance strategy, execution, delivery, and people development while actively contributing code in Kotlin, Swift, Jetpack Compose, and SwiftUI.
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- Co-developed and evangelized company-wide adoption of "Absurd Purism," a UI architecture pattern across Android and iOS teams, creating demo applications, documentation, and hosting weekly training sessions to accelerate development velocity and improve code maintainability
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- Led cross-functional initiatives coordinating mobile, backend, data science, and embedded teams, contributing production code in Kotlin and Swift while architecting integrated IoT product features
- Managed team performance through coaching 4 engineers to high performance and making difficult personnel decisions with 2 others to maintain team standards
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- Delivered Restore 3 MVP amid shifting constraints by managing scope pressure and redirecting feature creep into fast-follow plans
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- - Kept the team intact and shipping through a full leadership overhaul in my first three months. We had 20 mobile engineers supporting 2 backend devs, and product moved fast with evolving priorities. Made it work anyway.
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+ - Maintained 100% team retention and consistent delivery velocity despite frequent leadership transitions and rapidly changing requirements
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### Principal Android Engineer — Homesnap, Bethesda, MD
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*April 2019 – August 2021*
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Led Android strategy and delivery for Homesnap Showings and Citysnap, building new products while modernizing a decade-old codebase. Balanced architecture, mentorship, and delivery alongside developer experience improvements.
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- - The company had acquired seven different backends. Mobile clients were drowning in duplicated logic surrounding which backend to hit and how to format each response. Built a BFF to consolidate that mess into one clean API. Feature velocity jumped immediately.
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+ - Advocated for and led development of a Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) layer to consolidate business logic from multiple acquired backend systems, significantly reducing mobile client complexity and accelerating feature delivery
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- Drove platform modularization enabling the launch of Citysnap, a white-labeled NYC market release
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- Built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Fastlane, reducing deployment friction and enabling PR-based workflows
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- - When I started, clean builds took 20+ minutes and copy changes took 3-4. Developers were losing their minds. Became a Gradle expert, cleaned things up a bit, and likely prevented a mutiny.
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+ - Optimized Gradle and dev environment configuration, reducing local build times by 35%
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- Mentored junior developers through weekly pairing and established cross-platform engineering syncs
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### Android Architect / Instructor — Big Nerd Ranch, Atlanta, GA
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Taught, built, and consulted on Android projects for companies ranging from startups to global tech leaders.
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- Taught Android development and Kotlin programming to engineers at major tech companies, maintaining subject-matter expertise
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- - Embedded with Google's Android documentation team to write official developer.android.com content. Authored much of the current Fragment and Navigation documentation that millions of developers reference daily.
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+ - Authored technical documentation for Android platform components, contributing to resources used by millions of developers worldwide
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- - Rebuilt the entire Advanced Android curriculum from scratch in Kotlin. By 2019, Java was for legacy codebases, and we needed to teach Kotlin.
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+ - Rebuilt and modernized the Advanced Android curriculum from Java to Kotlin
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- Served as a technical advisor in sales and scoping conversations, helping win and shape client engagements