Evaluated, debugged, and improved existing MVP appsBuilt a high-quality UI-heavy bespoke messaging app with SwiftUI.Now working on their V1 app - also using SwiftUIAdvising the company on development and design strategy

Engineer & Advisor

Projects include:

JSwipe, "Tinder for Jews" - the #1 Jewish Dating app on the App Store.
Screenshop, "Shazam for Fashion" - A fun and easy way to shop for fashion products in your images and screenshots.
Spring Cleaning 2 - Newton Academy, A way to easily and quickly cleanup your address book
Galafold® MyDay - Amicus Therapeutics, A drug monitoring and dose-scheduling app
Universe, a mobile website builder.
ShopKeep POS, a point-of-sale app for businesses.
Connect, a social address book app.

Freelance iOS Engineer

Managed 5-person engineering team working on Bottleshake's software stack, which included an Android and iOS app, and a swath of backend services.

Tech Lead

Acqui-hired from my previous company, Pins.

iOS Foundation Engineer, supporting the rest of the company's iOS engineers. 
- Improved Jenkins CI workflows
- Implemented and managed internal dev tools
- Wrote automated UI/unit tests and frameworks for Square Register and other Square apps.

iOS Engineer

One of two iOS engineers on a SoLoMo app for sharing and bookmarking favorite locations.

Responsible for building and maintaining the authentication flow, background processing/offline mode/request throttling, Address Book aggregation/import, Core Data-based persistent storage architecture and overall application architecture/design.

Team was acquired by Square in April 2014.

Built Breathometer v1.0 iOS app. Pitched by company CEO on ABC's Shark Tank. Went on to receive $1M in seed funding from 5 Sharks.
Collaborated with hardware engineers on BAC calculation & sensor recalibration algorithms, improving device accuracy & reliability.
Tasked with ownership of a variety of apps/scripts to support the rest of the engineering team, assembly line, and device calibration process.
Interfaced with offshore firmware engineers to debug and extend firmware library capabilities to support current & future products.

iOS Engineering Lead

Tech lead of a 4-person mobile team.

Spearheaded a rewrite of entire line of company’s apps; lead to 60% better App Store reviews over previous versions.

Interfaced with technical/non-technical peers and upper management to communicate requirements, conventions, and platform limitations.

Wrote code & unit/functional tests.

Responsible for the core framework which supports all in-house and client apps - including ones for Stanford University, UCSF, UCSD, and Morehouse College.

Personal details

Jacob R.

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