Résumé
Earl Hayes
Senior Software Engineer · mobile, web & delivery
Summary
Product delivery, end to end
Michigan-based Senior Software Engineer at WorkWave, specializing in cross-platform mobile and web software. Deepest in C#/.NET and .NET MAUI, working across React, Python, Azure, SQL, and Linux when a product crosses into web, cloud, or hardware. Focused on application architecture, native iOS and Android development, mentoring, and end-to-end mobile and web delivery. Founder and Owner of Big Bwain LLC, which currently owns, operates, and produces a public catalog of mobile apps, web software, open-source tools, and physical products.
Highlights
Selected achievements
- Modernized Adventure Cache from Xamarin.Forms to a .NET 10 MAUI single-project implementation while preserving its iOS and Android identities, offline workflows, and release paths.
- Built Keydial Commander, an MIT-licensed Linux driver and React configuration interface for the Huion Keydial Mini K20, covering all 18 keys and the dial, profiles, macros, application launch, and local API control.
- Builds internal AI tooling and agents used by other engineers; uses LLM-assisted development and design workflows, including Claude, alongside testing, release engineering, and direct product ownership.
Case studies
Decisions, argued in full
- Turning one product’s knowledge into answers for product, QA, and developers
- Giving a vendor-unsupported keypad a native Linux workflow
- Modernizing a live cross-platform app without breaking its identity
- Growing a free workout app into a multi-tenant platform for trainers and gyms
- Running four live mobile apps on one shared foundation
Experience
Employment history
- — Present
Real Green Systems to WorkWave
Current title: Senior Software Engineer
Previous titles (earliest to latest): Mobile Software Technical Support → Software QA and Automation Developer → Software Engineer
Continuous employment that began at Real Green Systems around August 2015 and continued without a break when WorkWave acquired the company in June 2021.
- Promoted in under six months after handling 2,000+ calls in Mobile Software Technical Support; built a peer-used tool that sped documentation for recurring mobile-platform support calls.
- Wrote Selenium automation and helped implement automated regression and performance testing during the Service Assistant 5 transition.
- Formal title became Software Engineer about nine months after starting, then Senior Software Engineer around 2020.
- Moved into Automated Marketing Assistant development, then began direct mobile platform development less than two years after starting; later worked as one of two developers on that platform.
- At WorkWave, product work has included PestPac and WorkWave Service, with growing use of LLM-assisted development and design tools such as Claude.
- — Present
Big Bwain LLC (external)
Current title: Founder and Owner
The company currently owns, operates, and produces the products and projects in its public catalog.
- Maintains 8 mobile and watch products across 13 current App Store and Google Play listings.
Skills
Technical range
- Core
- C#, .NET, .NET MAUI, Xamarin, ASP.NET Core, SQLite, SQL
- Native, web & tools
- Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, Linux
- Cloud & delivery
- Azure, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, App Store, Google Play
- Product practice
- Architecture, Offline-first systems, AI-assisted development, Release engineering, Accessibility