Engineer Manager
2017 - PRESENTMercari- Lead the special projects team and built product features using Swift 4.2, RxSwift, MVVM that interacted with APIs and plenty of services like Facebook SDK, Adyen payment processor, and Launch Darkly for A/B tests.
- Won the 'Gold Bold Day' award for building the most innovative MVP for a product feature for Mercari at a 3-day internal hackathon. The idea got patented too.
- Hired more than 30+ software engineers across offices in Palo Alto and Tokyo after revamping the hiring process to raise the engineering bar high.
Technologies: Swift, iOS, XcodeCo-Founder & CTO
2013 - 2017Saily- Lead the technical operations and laid down the technical roadmap as we grew to 500,000 registered users!
- Hired talented engineers after setting up a hiring process similar to Apple's & Google's.
- Created guidelines and coding standards for the engineers to follow.
- Built the core infrastructure for the backend, database. Developed the MVP for the iOS app.
- Adapted Scrum as our agile development framework, and acted as a Scrum Master. This involved daily standup, sprints planning, reviews, & retrospectives. This ensured the work was done on time and all impediments were taken care off on spot.
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS, XcodeTechnical Tutorials Author
2013 - 2016Raywenderlich.com- Contributed to the #1 blog for high-quality iOS tutorials by writing 7 tutorials.
- Wrote tutorials that varied from coding with Swift (when Swift was still brand new), to beta testing, building a free & paid versions of your app, all the way to controlling hardware from your iPhone!
- Spoke at various international conference as a tutorial team member.
- Represented the tutorial team as a judge at Apple Watch in Silicon Valley.
- Bumped up my technical/writing skills by getting feedback from top notch engineers that reviewed the tutorials both technically & grammatically.
Technologies: Arduino, Objective-C, Swift, iOS, XcodeiOS Engineer
2012 - 2015Lextech Global Services- Worked with a team of talented mobile engineers, a Scrum Master, and a Product Owner using Scrum as a framework for agile development.
- Developed iOS apps for Fortune 500 companies. Clients included BlueCross BlueShield, Sonic Automotive, Sunbelt Rentals, and CDW.
- Supported all iOS devices including the iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad.
- Built projects that included hardware integration with mobile apps for payments processing.
- Contributed to other technologies like Android apps development.
- Wrote tutorials for the company's technical blog.
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS, XcodeiOS Engineering Team Lead
2012 - 2013Appwe Ltd.- Built numerous iOS apps for clients at this software development agency. Apps varied in nature (eCommerce, concerts & events, music, portfolio, restaurants, etc.).
- Managed the team by setting up milestones, assigning tasks, and following up on them.
- Reviewed the code, and ensured that coding standards and guidelines were followed.
- Received requirements from clients directly and acted as a project manager on some projects.
Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, iOS, AppCode, XcodeiOS Engineer
2011 - 2012KnowledgeView Ltd.- Collaborated with a team of 5 other iOS engineers to build apps for clients in the publishers field.
- Co-built newspaper & magazine apps for clients in Europe and Middle East.
- Provided backward compatibility back to iOS 4, and tinkered with Apple's Newsstand to port magazine apps to it.
- Supported 3 languages for each app (English, French, & Arabic). The challenge was to have both LTR & RTL support in the same app for different languages preference.
- Contributed to the weekly technical meetings that introduced new topics, technologies, and APIs.
Technologies: Objective-C, iOS, Xcode