Julien Saad
Chief Product Officer at Rare Carat
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJulien Saad is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently serves as Chief Product Officer at Rare Carat, blending startup entrepreneurship and management-consulting rigor to build data-driven digital businesses. He has led cross-functional teams at McKinsey Digital and Transit, and previously founded and scaled a mobile-focused product studio, bringing a rare mix of product strategy, agile delivery and hands-on engineering. Based in Montreal with a computer engineering degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal, he pairs quantitative decision-making with product design sensibility to optimize user journeys and growth. An active contributor to iOS open-source (enhancing SVWebViewController), he still ships code while steering strategy, making him comfortable toggling between high-level roadmaps and implementation details.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal
French, English
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Github Skills (11)
objective-c10
uiwebview10
swift10
ios10
ui-elements9
uikit9
uinavigationcontroller6
nsuserdefaults6
uitableview6
cocoa-touch6
viewcontroller6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TransitApp/SVWebViewController
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
A drop-in inline browser for your iOS app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the iOS application's SVWebViewController, enhancing its functionality and user experience. They added the ability to customize the dismiss button style, including "done" and "cancel" options, along with the correct behavior on iPad. They also fixed a typo in the done button's tap action and enabled the customization of activities to allow for sharing the URL. Furthermore, the user exposed the `webView` property for more customization options.
wkwebviewipaddrop-inbrowserios-app
juliensaad/Event-Vods
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
Spoiler free iOS client for https://eventvods.com
Contributions:3 PRs, 113 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 4 months
spoilerswiftiosios-client
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