Gabriel R Email & Phone Number

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Amongst it’s remarkable audiovisual technologies Dolby provides a Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) and a streaming service. Both act as a platforms for low latency video conferencing and broadcasting respectively, and both are accompanied by a series of SDKs to help customers use Dolby technologies in their products.In relation to the CPaaS, in the capacity of staff engineer, my responsibilities included leading a team of up to 6 developers, whilst undertaking project management and ownership duties. Moreover I have acted as the primary liaison between the development team and management, and have provided mentorship and coaching to midlevel and junior members of the team.Additionally to my managerial and mentorship duties, I have actively contributed to the development of the Flutter and React Native SDKs for CPaaS, and to the iOS and macOS SDKs for the streaming service.Projects:- Flutter SDK: As team lead, have delivered several releases of this SDK. It allows developers to integrate Dolby’s CPaaS offering into their Flutter applications, runs on iOS and Android and is written in the Dart, Swift, Java, and Kotlin languages.- React Native SDK: As team lead have maintained, updated and further developed this SDK. It enables developer to use Dolby’s CPaaS offering into their React Native applications. Written in the Typescript, Javascript, Swift, Java, and Kotlin languages, this SDK can be used in iOS and Android applications.- iOS SDK: Contributed to the development of the iOS and macOS SDK for the streaming service.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

As team lead, my responsibilities included the day to day management of 6 iOS developers, coaching and mentoring them. Furthermore my duties cover recruiting new team members, overseeing the architecture of the applications, and structuring and improving the development processes.Projects: - All in one GMX and WEB.DE iOS apps: Led the development and team responsible for writing the all in one native client for GMX and WEB.DE. This application is mostly written in Swift, and comprises of a mail client, cloud storage and news. Alongside developing new features, a big ongoing topic for this application is its modularisation, in which I am actively involved.- Cloud only GMX and WEB.DE and 1&1 iOS apps: Have overseen the development and introduction of a new brand for the cloud storage client app.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the development work from a technical perspective for both iOS and Android platforms in the Mobile Consumer Servicing team.Projects:- View pin: As Tech Lead I have overseen the development of this feature for iOS and Android. For Android this project has used technologies such as Java and RxJava while for iOS Swift and PromiseKit have been used.- Push notifications: As iOS Lead Engineer and later as Tech Lead I have overseen the development of the push notification capability for the Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland iOS apps. Also acting as solution architect I have designed the network architecture for sending push notifications to APNs from Lloyds' servers. This task has required a new network appliance to be installed, while the architecture was subject to stringent security requirements.

London, United Kingdom

Have overseen the technical aspect of the iOS development work for Outbound Messaging and Async Comms teams.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for architecting, developing and enhancing features of the Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland iOS apps.Projects:- App Redesign: As a Senior iOS Developer I have participated in the implementation of the graphical redesign of the Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apps. The main task was to change to UX of these apps to use a tab bar approach rather than a menu button.- Payments: As a Senior iOS Developer, I have co-architected and co-developed a complete rewrite of the payments section of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apps. The new architecture has proven very useful for the addition of new features to the payment section. Swift, UIKit and PromiseKit have been used for this task.

London, United Kingdom

Solera Holdings, Inc. was founded to bring about a digital evolution of the insurance industry, starting with the processing of insurance claims. R3PI is a Solera company which is spearheading the development of products related to auto and home ownership.Responsible for architecting, implementing and testing iOS software for the Digital Garage iOS apps.Projects:- DigitalGarage 1.0: This app strives to help users with their car ownership experience such as servicing and renewing MOT. In this app I have implemented new features (as well as main- tained exiting ones) using the Swift and Objective-C programming languages and technologies such as UIKit UIAppearance, Autolayout, Storyboards, CoreBluetooth, CoreData, RxSwift, Magical- Record, and have contributed to the modularisation of the project.- DigitalGarage 2.0: With slightly different requirements than the Digital Garage 1.0, there has been decided to implement this app entirely in Swift. As part of the team that has implement- ed this app from the ground up, I have owned and implemented some of it’s futures in Swift, using UIKit UIAppearance, Autolayout, Storyboards, CoreBluetooth, CoreData, REST services, and have been a driving force for replacing the REST services with GraphQL, which has given me the chance to architect and implement server side code using NodeJS as well as to refactor the iOS app to use the GraphQL service.Technologies: iOS 8 - 11, iPhone and iPad, Swift 2 - 4, Objective-C, UIKit, Storyboards, UIAppearance, AutoLayout, CoreData, Bluetooth LE, RX Swift, Fabric, Crashlytics, MixPanel, Unity 3D, MVVM, CocoaPods, Carthage, FastLane, GraphQL, NodeJs, Javascript, Bamboo, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket, SwiftLint.

Uk

In September 2010 I have setup GADRS Consulting Ltd to offer consultancy and software development services.Projects and clients:- For Engie (Nov '15 - March '16): I have enhanced, improved stability and maintained three of Engie’s iOS (Objective-C) in-house building management apps. Furthermore I have advised senior staff on soft- ware design and architecture for further development of these applications.- For Qredo (Nov '14 - Jul '15): Have co-developed their SDK for iOS, which has been implemented in the Objective-C and Swift languages, and uses HTTP Web-Services, WebSocket and MQTT. Furthermore during this project I have used the Scala programming language, and have gained experience in all major cryptography standards and algorithms- Own Project (spring/summer '14): Have developed a project using Scala, AKKA, Tomcat and Cassandra for server side development, and iOS and Objective-C for the mobile side.- For Saffron Digital (Nov '13 - Feb '14): Have co-developed video on demand iOS apps for two of their main clients using Xcode, UIKit and AVFoundation in Objective-C.- For Barclays (Apr '13 – Oct '13): Have co-developed a native iOS (iPad and IPhone) app using Objective-C, Xcode, UIKit.- For AKQA (Oct '12 - Mar '13): Have co-written software for iOS (iPhone and iPad) in Objective-C using XCode, UIKit, Core Graphics and other iOS technologies.- For Monitise (May '12 - Aug '12): Have developed in Objective-C a project using the WADL and XSD standards, along with Java and Maven as tools.- For Bloomberg (Jun '11 – Mar '12): Have designed and written a significant part of the company’s flagship product for iPhone and iPad using Objective-C and C++.- For the University College London (Nov '10 – Dec '10): Successfully developed a release grade proof of concept application.- For 4D Interactive (Sept '10 – Nov '10): Have co-developed the iPhone client application for the company's already existent dating website.

Hatfield, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: Designing, implementing and testing software for the iPhone and Android mobile phones.Projects undertaken and achievements:- iPhone web-shop: Developed as part of at team the iPhone based web-shop application. This project allows customers to shop and edit their orders from an iPhone. I took part in all phases of development of this project which is written in Objective-C. For the communication with the server, there have been used, XML and REST web services.- Android web-shop: Contributed to the development of the Android based web-shop application. This project has been written in Java.- Test utilities: Developed in Java, Python and Objective-C a set of utilities used for testing the iPhone and Android based web-shop applications.

London, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: Designing, implementing and testing software for smart mobile phones.Projects undertaken and achievements:- S60 Tetris: As an induction to the company and the Symbian OS, I have written a Tetris game for Nokia smart phones using C++ and the S60 widget set.- UIQ VoIP project: A VoIP client for the Sony Ericsson Symbian smart phones written in C++ using the UIQ widget set. - iPhone demo application: Wrote a demonstration application for the Apple iPhone in the Objective-C language.- Multimedia framework: Undertook maintenance work on the Symbian multimedia frame­work.- Android demo application: Wrote a demonstration application for the Google's Android OS using Java.

High Wycombe, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: To design, implement and test modelling and prediction software. Have also guided and advised junior staff on C/C++ issues, and advising senior staff on audio network technologies.Projects undertaken and achievements:- DISPLAY: A large sound prediction application written in C++ employing STL, OpenGL and XML. Initially I was the sole developer of this project and responsible for its design, implementation and testing.- As yet unreleased Java project: Developed a large desktop application using Java, Eclipse, the Rich Client Platform (RCP) from the Eclipse project, EMF and GEF.- EASE plug-in DLL's: Co-wrote DLL plug-ins for the industry standard EASE acoustic prediction software using C and C++.- MATLAB MEX files: These files provide a gateway between MATLAB and DISPLAY for the acoustic data.- Development tools: Successfully introduced CVS and Bugzilla into the company's development process, and decided to migrate to SVN, whilst maintaining a Debian Linux.

Copenhagen, Denmark

During my studies I worked part time on software engineering and IT projects on both Windows and Linux.