Paco Sprouse

Paco Sprouse is currently an engineering at OpenPhone. Paco has previously worked as a Data Engineer Intern at Experian DataLabs and as a Mobile Engineer at Mango Health.

Paco has always been interested in technology and how it can be used to solve problems. Paco became interested in data engineering while working at Experian DataLabs, where they developed new consumer attributes to be used in predictive credit models. Paco also evaluated an outsourced KNN machine learning model for performance lift over current Experian models using the KS metric.

At Mango Health, Paco was the solo Android Engineer for over half a year, during which time they delivered product updates on time while maintaining parity with the established iOS team. Paco also collaborated on a large scale visual and functional overhaul of the Android application to cater to evolving business needs and a new target audience. In addition, they defined processes for handling routine work such as updating Gradle dependencies, managing release branches, and making model updates.

Paco is always looking for ways to improve their skills and knowledge. Paco initiated an assessment of old code for potential bugs, undefined product definitions, poor performance, and unreadable code. Paco also wrote unit tests for new and existing code using Mockito, Mockito-Kotlin, and Mockk. Additionally, they updated legacy code written without a clear software design pattern to be MVVM with databinding to streamline future implementations and allow for unit and functional tests.

Paco is also experienced in release management. Paco coordinated Jira tickets with an external QA team and product leads, and monitored the success of releases through analytics tools such as Firebase. Paco also triaged various support issues by reproducing them and assessing their potential impact.

Paco Sprouse's educational career began with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics-Computer Science from UC San Diego.