Zac West, iOS Engineer

• Built a reusable theming module, refactored and rewrote basically every view in the app to use it, and shipped Dynamic Type and Dark Mode support with semantic color and font mappings.
• Overhauled accessibility support to meet WCAG 2.1 level AA standards. Fixed numerous bugs, filed radars, all that jazz.
• Shipped features, mentored engineers, improved developer tooling and language standards, learned & evangelized RxSwift, helped define process.

Picked up and fell in love with Swift. Architected and rewrote the app to be extensible and easy to build in. Managed the iOS team.

• Resilient creation flow with background uploading powered by Realm.
• Major reusable UI components including a grid display and feed system.
• Reusable data source used throughout the app.

Rewrote and made for quick iterating from private beta to a featuring in the App Store at launch. I think I built this to be a top-tier messaging app in a very short period of time.

• Extremely custom UICollectionViews for messaging and list displays.
• Core Data powered networking layer powering everything.

I was the first iOS hire from private beta to launching and an Editor's Choice and over a million downloads of Heyday, a journaling app. This app was predominately an offline experience but featured full backup and syncing to the cloud of the entries and users' entire camera rolls.

Primary worked on Linea, a photo-sharing app focused on mosaics and printing books.

Software for iPads in hotel rooms: climate control, room service. Lots of custom binary-protocol networking talking to ancient systems.

Worked on a high-availability RAID stack in Linux, and on a legacy bare metal version, both written in C. I previously interned here as well.