Gulam Moledina is a Staff Mobile Developer at Shopify in Toronto with 14 years of experience delivering high-performance iOS applications and leading mobile teams. He transitioned from early web development roles into mobile product leadership at La Presse and Mirego, marrying product thinking with engineering discipline. Gulam is a hands-on engineer known for shipping performant UI components — his open-source GMGridView implements gesture-driven sorting and pinch/rotate/pan transforms with reusable cell strategies to boost responsiveness. At Shopify he focuses on scalable mobile architectures, mentoring engineers and turning complex UX requirements into reliable implementations. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Université de Montréal and favors an interface-first, pragmatic approach to solving mobile performance and usability challenges.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science, Computer Science, Bachelor of science, Computer Science at Université de Montréal / University of Montreal
A performant Grid-View for iOS (iPhone/iPad) that allows sorting of views with gestures (the user can move the items with his finger to sort them) and pinching/rotating/panning gestures allow the user to play with the view and toggle from the cellview to a fullsize display.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:89 commits, 1 push in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Gulam's commits focus on developing a performant Grid-View component for iOS applications. The initial commit establishes the core functionality of the grid view. Subsequent commits refine the code, rename methods for consistency, remove unnecessary background color and add support for various gestures like pinch, tap, rotation, and pan for transforming the view and entering into full screen mode. Further changes add support for different item sizes based on the orientation, enhance the editing capabilities with deleting options, implement reusable cells and improve the layout strategies for better performance.
Contributions:21 commits, 5 pushes, 2 tags in 8 months
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Gulam Moledina - Staff Developer, Mobile Engineering at Shopify