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Nicolas Melo

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I love solving problems with software.

Experience

Test Manager, Apple Inc. San Francisco, CA December 2014 - Present

• Doubled team with high quality test automation engineers in 6 months.
• Worked cross functionally with constituent teams to cover the full project’s testing needs.
• Updated the continuous integration and release test plan to maintain quick and high quality production deploys.

Test Engineer, Path, Inc. San Francisco, CA May 2013 - December 2014

• Architected company’s QA strategy with an emphasis on automation, tools, stress testing, and beta programs.
• Created the end-to-end process and tools to quickly and efficiently localize our app into 18 languages.
• Manage relationships and processes with our contracting services of developers and translators.

iOS Automation Manager, Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA 2010-2013

• Built an automation team from a demo project aimed to enhance the testability of iOS radio 
technologies (BT, WiFi, Location, and Baseband) for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
• Lead recruiting efforts that helped grow a team from 8 engineers to 100+. Recruited and built a team of 10 direct reports.
• Built and maintained a continuous integration system with 50+ machines and 400+ devices.
• Designed and implemented web tools to aggregate test reports, analytics, and project status.
• Evangelized new features and tools to drive software quality and client team use, or measure and eliminate unneeded cruft.

Embedded BT Software Engineer, Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA 2007-2010

• Coded high-quality features aimed at increasing interoperability, performance, and maintenance for Bluetooth software on iOS 1.0.2 - 3.0.
• Re-architected phonebook transfer for efficiency and maintainability.
• Focused on the testability of the BT software project, increasing this metric whenever possible.

Software Dev Engineer, Citrix Systems, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, FL 2004-2007

• Took a custom self-diagnosing solution to market as a key feature.
• Designed tools aimed to collect system health and error information.
• Collaborated on automation framework to run regression tests in a distributed environment.

Education

• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - MS Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2004
• University of Florida, Gainesville, FL - BS Computer & Information Science & Engineering, 2003

Skills & Experience

• Experience in the full project/product life cycle from conception to prototyping to implementation to maintenance
• Excellent at project scheduling and road-mapping
• Operating Systems: iOS, OS X, Linux/Unix