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Stan SmidaSS

Stan Smida

iOS Swift-stack Engineer | 15 years of experience

€600/day
Prague, CZ
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Stan

Having started my iOS development journey during the era of iPhone OS 3 and adopting Swift as my primary tool from the day it was released, I bring over a decade of hands-on experience delivering robust, high-quality, large-scale, real-world software with proven, outstanding results.

Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to projects for companies such as ESPN, LazyTown, and National Geographic. Additionally, for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Protecht, Škoda Auto, and Seismic, I’ve either delivered end-to-end solutions independently or served as an iOS principal/lead.
  • Czech

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Prague (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Seismic (acquired Percolate)
    Lead iOS Engineer
    TECH
    August 2018 - March 2024 (5 years and 7 months)
    New York, NY, USA
    • Took over and independently rewrote the entire Percolate iOS app, boosting request-response performance by as much as 90%, resolving all existing bug tickets, and virtually eliminating the submission of new ones.
    • Continuously drove the iOS app toward feature parity with the core web app—a feat that required an entire web app team.
    • Key features and implementations I delivered during my work on this project include:
    • Basic or SSO authentication, OAuth 2.0 authorization, 2fa, multi-accounts, multi-region, multi-tenancy.
    • Deep links (notifications, emailed, handoff) navigating UI with custom routing.
    • Custom generic networking layer for JSON:API (serial, parallel, batching, pagination, as well as their combinations).
    • Handling variety of user roles and permissions (direct, shared strictly or through cascading, transitive).
    • Assets management, including previewing, thumbs generation, versioning, downloading and uploading, including multipart.
    • Schema-driven forms featuring configurable fields, cascading field value control, field dependencies, nested fields, plugins, and a plethora of field types.
    • Workflows that facilitate moving between stages, managing quorum, participants, approvals, events, and more.
    • Advanced calendar views for scheduled objects.
    • Custom generic component for text view input triggering, including custom generic AttributedString attributes.
    • Custom JSON coding for handling dynamic types or time formats.
    • Comments with threaded replies, mentions, editing and deletion.
    • CircleCI and GitHub Actions for unit and UI testing, distribution, deployment and static analysis.
    • BugSnag, Sentry, New Relic, Segment, Amplitude, Zendesk, Veracode, Fastlane, etc.
    iOS Continuous integration Swift SwiftUI Product Development
  • Škoda Auto (Volkswagen Group)
    Lead iOS Engineer
    TECH
    June 2017 - July 2018 (1 year and 1 month)
    Mladá Boleslav, Czechia
    • Served as the ultimate gatekeeper of the codebase for the flagship MyŠkoda iOS app.
    • Led development efforts and managed integrations.
    • Integrated C libraries for vehicle communication, including implementation in CarPlay—achieving a major milestone and marking a significant success.
    • Initiated the introduction of push notifications and architected the solution.
    CarPlay Swift watchOS Leadership iOS
  • Protecht
    Lead iOS Engineer
    TECH
    June 2015 - May 2017 (1 year and 11 months)
    Sydney, NSW, Australia
    • Delivered a document-based app end-to-end for working with Bow Tie Analysis diagrams, tailored for professionals in risk assessment and management.
    • Seamless work across iPad and iPhone, with cloud-based document ubiquity, dynamic auto-layout-drag-and-drop, and a comprehensive feature set, made the app an excellent mobile companion to Protecht's main product.
    Swift UIDocument PDFKit CloudKit PurchaseKit

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Education

  • Master of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science
    Technical University of Košice
    2013
    Master of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science

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