PayLoc aims to make traditional punchcards obsolete by allowing employees to be able to clock in and out of their shifts using only their smartphone via the PayLoc Mobile App. The app utilizes geofencing technology to ensure that each request made in the app is both authentic and secure.

Part of my job involved developing the PayLoc Mobile Clock in/Out App, detailed here.

The backend is tied to a node.js based backend. In-house developed scheduling algorithms tied to a redundant database drive the logic behind PayLoc. 3rd party APIs are leveraged to handle PCI data, check printing and direct deposit tasks.

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Food Delivery Optimization App designed to reduce delivery fees to multiple students ordering from the same location. During "hot spots" like lunch and dinner time, I noticed several delivery drivers from the same company appearing at around the same time to my college dorm.

By using BobaRun, which accesses the APIs of several food delivery apps like Grubhub and UberEats, students can group together orders from the same restaurant, or even just the same app, and split the shipping cost amongst each other.

In the summer of 2017, I attended MIT Launch, a fast-paced, entrepreneurship-focused startup incubator.

It all started with our one-hour lunch break. By MIT’s rule, we had to sign out and sign in for lunch break. That physical sign in/out paper was kept with the dorm manager - a 20 minute walk from our classroom. Walking back and forth to sign out for lunch and then sign back in would take 40 minutes of our one-hour lunch break. After a single day of this nonsense, I started talking with a few people I had happened to meet. There just had to be a better way of doing this.

By the very first night of our stay, I had managed to drum up support and set out to recruit the smartest and most passionate developers and designers I could find. After a few days to get everything finished up together, LaunchIn was born. Incorporating Touch ID and geofencing, it was much more efficient and easy to use than the sheet of paper - so much so that MIT decided to purchase the app from us for $500 (and a set of sweet MIT jackets). Now, we had more lunch time and more lunch money: a win-win! In this case, there was a clear pain point for all students, and a relatively clear solution. We demonstrated our agility and efficiency in solving real problems. From that initial outburst of creativity and passion, I knew I had found my crowd.

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