Andrew Hogue

Founder, Designer and Developer

Authentique, Inc.•  February 2018 - April 2020

Created IG Audit, a free Instagram audience verification service. Raised $400k seed, reached 2.3M+ organic users. - Go backend on AWS - Capable of 1000+ RPS with minimal cost. - 30kb PWA on CloudFront - served 300K+ MAUs for about $7/month. - > 500% organic growth from Jan-Aug 2018 (60K to 320K MAUs) - Site worth ~$726K at end of 2019 (urlrate.com, webuka.com) - Organic press in Wired, BBC, Vice, Yahoo News and HypeBeast.

Technical Consultant

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence•  May 2017 - June 2018

Helped lead product design and development of Mood Meter, an emotional awareness + regulation app for elementary school children. - Met with director monthly. Iterated on prototypes to refine product vision and secure funding. - Developed MySQL models. Created high-throughput data pipeline.

Lead Backend Developer

Hooked•  August 2017 - February 2018

Led backend development and optimization for Hooked, a mobile app that reaches 100 million Gen Z viewers. It has reached #1 on the App Store and Google Play in over 25 countries. - Reduced average read latency for 50k+ simultaneous users by 40%, improved security, introduced unit testing framework. - Designed and developed an iOS subscription visualization tool for global user retention, LTV, and revenue reporting + projection.

Full-Stack Developer

Snapchat•  May 2016 - May 2017

I built an inventory tool with 2 other engineers to manage $100M+ in annual Geofilter+Lens Ad sales. - Created inventory auto-expiration: increased sell-through rate of Direct-Sold Inventory by 10%. - Query optimization: reduced p90 read latency by 90%. - Met with Sales to define and prioritize feature roadmap. - Interviewed 75 engineers - led to hiring of 15-20. Trained 4 interviewers.

Co-Founder and Lead Developer

Dap'd, Inc.•  March 2015 - January 2016

My first startup experience - I created an ephemeral, anonymous, uplifting, global iOS application. - NodeJS, MongoDB, and Redis on backend; Objective-C frontend. - Increased onboarding funnel completion by 30% using Mixpanel. - Built implicit reputation engine to foster a self-regulating community.

Software Engineering Intern

Facebook•  June 2014 - September 2014

Enhanced a machine learning model for the Feed Ads team that produced $35M/day in ad revenue. Used C++ and Python. - Exposed users to low ranked ads to create more robust training data.

Risk Technology Analyst Intern

Bank of America•  June 2013 - September 2013

Coded investment risk data integration platform in Python. - Sanitized 3rd party data for investment risk models and visualization.

Programmer/Analyst Intern

Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA•  June 2012 - September 2012

Analyzed and optimized Deep Space Network protocols in interplanetary systems for NASA. - Python: simulated+optimized Mars rover network latency and quality of satellites in response to varying network conditions

California Institute of Technology

Computer Science, BS•  September 2011 - June 2015

- CS: Decidability, Algorithms, Computing Systems, Neural Computation, Databases, Quantum Computation, ML, Data Mining - Math: Applied Complex Analysis, Diff EQs, Probability and Stats, Stochastic Processes - Physics: Classical Mechanics, E&M, Waves, Quantum, Statistical Mechanics - Athletics: Varsity basketball 4 years (Captain 2 years)