Anh Do, Developer in Toronto, Canada
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Anh Do

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Software Developer

Location
Toronto, Canada
Toptal Member Since
March 13, 2014

Anh is a product-focused mobile engineer with 5+ years of iOS development experience, building apps at Shopify and other startups. He has a strong background in product management and five years of experience at Zalo, Vietnam's most popular messaging app with 100+ million users worldwide. Anh has published indie apps featured by Fast Company, Ars Technica, and Macworld, among others. He's also contributed to open source projects like NetNewsWire, a popular RSS reader for macOS and iOS.

Portfolio

Shopify
Swift
Zalo
Balsamiq
TapLife
Laravel, PHP, Vuforia, Objective-C, iOS

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Xcode, Vim Text Editor, MacOS, Swift

The most amazing...

...app I've developed is an iOS text editor with 20,000+ paid downloads, featured on Fast Company, Ars Technica, Macworld, MacStories, and more.

Work Experience

Senior iOS Developer

2020 - 2023
Shopify
  • Led a team of mobile developers working on native iOS, Android, and React Native projects to build features for the Shopify mobile app.
  • Implemented back office features for the Shopify mobile app.
  • Coached junior members of the team to improve their craft.
Technologies: Swift

Product Management Lead

2014 - 2019
Zalo
  • Designed features and coordinated with development teams to build a market-leading messaging app with more than 100 million users.
Technologies: Balsamiq

iOS Contractor

2014 - 2014
TapLife
  • Developed an augmented reality iOS app with a RESTful back end.
Technologies: Laravel, PHP, Vuforia, Objective-C, iOS

iOS Contractor

2013 - 2013
Miles Perret Cancer Services
  • Developed an iPhone app for cancer patients to assist in their doctor appointments and treatment process.
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS

Graduate Assistant

2012 - 2013
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • Taught college students native iOS app development using iOS 7 SDK and cross-platform app development using the MoSync framework.
Technologies: C++, Objective-C, iOS

iOS Contractor

2012 - 2012
Nice Agency
  • Maintained an iPhone app for restaurants to facilitate quick purchases and loyalty rewards.
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS

iOS Developer

2010 - 2012
Undisclosed
  • Developed and maintained iOS apps for business clients in the financial market.
  • Developed a reusable charting component based on CorePlot to visualize financial data.
  • Ported complex iPhone apps to iPad/universal apps.
Technologies: Core Plot, Objective-C, iOS

Google Summer of Code iOS Developer

2010 - 2010
Inclusive Design Institute Centre
  • Developed an iPhone app on top of Three20 framework to interact with OpenSocial APIs provided by ATutor Social, an open-source e-learning platform.
Technologies: OpenSocial, Objective-C, iOS

Web Developer

2010 - 2010
Azure Graphic & Web Design
  • Developed and maintained high-traffic websites powered by an in-house Kohana-based framework.
Technologies: jQuery, Kohana, PHP

iOS Contractor

2009 - 2009
DigiBee
  • Developed iPhone apps for clients.
Technologies: Objective-C

Web Developer

2007 - 2009
CodeAndMore
  • Developed and maintained WordPress plugins for clients.
  • Developed and maintained CakePHP-powered websites.
Technologies: WordPress, CakePHP, PHP

Writing Kit

Writing Kit is a text editor for writers and screenwriters who do research and write documents on their iOS devices. Incorporating a wide range of third-party APIs (Dropbox, Evernote, Pinboard, Facebook, Tumblr, etc) to boost the user’s productivity, Writing Kit is being used daily by thousands of people. Achieved 20,000+ paid downloads over its life time.

The app was featured on numerous online publications like Fast Company, Macworld, Wired, GigaOM, etc.

Exercise Genius

Exercise Genius was developed as part of the CajunCodeFest 2.0 hackathon held in Lafayette, Louisiana, US. The app helps runners keep track of their exercises and provides useful metrics to better understand their health. Exercise Genius also syncs its data with Microsoft HealthVault.

The app won both the "Best Student Team" and "Best Student Team Use of Microsoft HealthVault" awards.

Languages

JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Ruby, C, Objective-C, Swift, C++, GraphQL

Frameworks

Cocoa Touch, CakePHP, Padrino, Sinatra, Core Plot, Laravel, Kohana, Core Data

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, CocoaPods

Tools

Vagrant, AppCode, Xcode, Git, GitHub, SourceTree, Vim Text Editor, Balsamiq, Subversion (SVN)

Paradigms

REST

Platforms

iOS, MacOS, WordPress, Vuforia

Storage

JSON, SQLite, MySQL

Other

OpenSocial

2012 - 2013

Master's Degree in Computer Science

University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Louisiana, US

2007 - 2010

Bachelor's Degree in Business Computing

University of Sunderland - Sunderland, UK

JUNE 2019 - PRESENT

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org

JANUARY 2009 - PRESENT

Zend PHP5 Certification

Zend

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