Zsolt Kovács

Experience

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  Reea

  Jul 2013 - May 2015

  Mobile developer

  Worked with the client throughout the whole project life cycle, from gathering requirements to successful publishing on 6 mobile applications.

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  Vitheia AS

  Jun 2015 - Nov 2015

  IOS Developer

  • Single handedly launched the Vitheia Surveillance iOS application• Implemented MPEG-4 video decoding without any online documentation through Apple’s Video Toolbox• Implemented a custom circular buffer for memory and bandwidth efficiency• Created an interface for communication between native Objective-C and JavaScript with Cordova• Managed source code through Version Control (SVN)

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  Halcyon Mobile

  Nov 2015 - Dec 2017

  Senior iOS Developer

  • Mentored 2 junior developers by helping them home their Swift knowledge• Worked with multiple architectures, such as MVVM, MVC, FLUX• Implemented applications using RxSwift• Worked on multiple research projects with Swift• Contribute to multiple Open-Source libraries• Worked closely with UI/UX team to provide beautiful, user centered interfaces

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  The LEGO Group

  Dec 2016 - Dec 2017

  Senior iOS Engineer

  • Worked as external iOS consultant

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  Pix4D

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2019

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Implementing support for new products in current iOS Application• Helping with transitioning current code stack to a shared C++ core• Setup Continuous Integration pipeline to improve project stability

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  Ricardo AG

  Sept 2019 - now

  - Play a leading role in growing the mobile team and fostering a healthy engineering culture through hiring 5 engineers- Work together with engineering leadership and C-suite, ensuring teams are set up for success- Bring the iOS and Android engineers closer together, encouraging collaboration on shared solutions- Define technical direction of the mobile stack- Define yearly technical goals for engineers in line with the technical direction and engineers' growth ambitions- Have weekly 1:1s with engineers, following up and supporting them on their technical goals- Work with engineers experimenting with technologies that could improve efficiency: SwiftUI, Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), Backend for Frontend (BFF), Modularization of the codebase- Setup CI pipeline to automate the smoke testing suite through UI Tests (Appium)- Work on anything impeding the success of projects: Backend in Golang and Java; Kubernetes, Terraform infrastructure Show less - Design hiring process, lead interview process, successfully hiring 3 engineers- Introduce unit testing, take project from no testing to all features requiring tests, achieving over 50% test coverage in the process- Establish best practices, coding conventions, introduce SwiftLint- Take project from 4.0 to 4.7 rating on the App Store, increase crash-free sessions from 98% to 99.9%- Setup automatic mock generation, saving engineers from spending time writing and maintaining mocks- Setup CI/CD pipeline, automate build distribution and code signing Show less

  • Engineering Manager

    Jun 2024 - now

  • Technical Lead - Mobile / Staff Engineer

    Jun 2022 - Jun 2024

  • Senior Mobile Engineer

    Sept 2019 - Jun 2022