Senior/Lead iOS Engineer, Engineering Manager, Head of Software

Pip Decks library in your pocket, a digital companion to the physical card decks covering a variety of career and business topics.

• Led the product discovery phase with the founder to determine the initial set of specifications
• Developed initial prototypes of the responsive web app and iterated based on customer feedback to develop a product that will be the basis of the subscription based business going forward
• Worked with designers and on my own to define and implement a user experience that our customers love
• The app allows customers to browse and search through the Pip Decks library, bookmark their favorite cards, watch accompanying videos, and access additional materials
• Built the app to work on smartphones, tablets, desktops, both within the most popular browsers and as a standalone PWA
• Built a content import pipeline to import content prepared for print and exported as XML from InDesign into Strapi CMS and then finally make it available in the app
• Javascript, Typescript, HTML/CSS, React.js, Ionic, Node.js, Firebase, Strapi CMS, Shopify, Wordpress, Git, Posthog, Hotjar

Meal kit delivery service.

• Joined as an external contractor to help the iOS team of 15+ people tackle specific cross-cutting concerns and speed up launching the service in new markets
• Cleaned up and improved the localization module, developed a localizations maintenance system and the accompanying process
• Reviewed existing usage of app configuration and feature flags, and defined guidelines on how to use and maintain them in the future
• Used customized code analysis tools to find and remove unused code
• MVVM, Swift, SwiftSyntax, Periphery, AppLanga, Firebase Analytics, Optimizely, PHP, Python, Git

Strength training workout tracker and training program distribution platform.

• Led the development of the iOS app with several other contributors
• Designed and developed a new income stream which increased our MMR by 25%
• Introduced clean architecture principles and code design guidelines
• Added the initial UI testing toolkit and covered key screen flows with UI tests
• Significantly reduced the number of crashes and improved the stability of the app
• Rewrote the in-app purchase management components for stability and easier maintenance
• MVP, Swift, UIKit, Texture, RevenueCat, Facebook SDK, Amplitude, Python/Django, REST, Git

My lifting tech playground.

• Built a timer app for iOS with a custom user engagement framework
• Built a rest tracker app for iOS integrated with Polar heart rate sensors
• Built a body movement tracking app for iOS based on Apple's APIs for body detection in images
• Swift, UIKit, Vision, Realm, Firebase Analytics/Crashlytics, Git

• Owned the hybrid mobile app and its build system
• Owned the content import backend services
• Cordova, HTML5, JS & CSS3, iOS, Android, Ruby, Python/Django, Celery, Git

Croatian government IT services company

• Developed key components of the national New Computerised Transit System, which tracks road freight across the EU
• Written and maintained architecture documents for this system
• J2EE, TDD, Spring MVC, Spring Portlet MVC, Spring WS, Struts, DWR (AJAX), jQuery