Alan Fineberg
IOS Developer at Datadog
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Fineberg is an experienced iOS engineer with 13 years building and shipping high-impact mobile features for apps like Lyft, MasterClass, Datadog, Yelp, and Square. He blends hands-on engineering and team leadership—having led iOS teams, mentored engineers, and shipped platform integrations like SharePlay—while also owning automation and release tooling such as Square’s open-source spacecommander for Objective-C formatting. Comfortable across ObjC and Swift, he has a track record of improving test automation, accessibility, and product metrics through cross-org collaboration and pragmatic architecture. He’s contributed practical technical writing and postmortems on thorny iOS issues and memory-leak gotchas, demonstrating a talent for explaining complex runtime and tooling problems. Based in San Francisco, he pairs mobile product sense with backend data work (AWS/Kinesis, Redshift) from his time at Halo Neuroscience, and holds multiple patents tied to his Square and Halo work. An unusual strength: he equally prefers shipping polished user-facing features and building developer-facing automation that keeps large teams productive.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science and Engineering, BSE, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (9)
objective-c10
bash10
clang-format10
python10
build-automation10
code-formatting10
cicd9
test-automation9
git9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
square/spacecommander
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Commit fully-formatted Objective-C as a team without even trying.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:58 commits, 51 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alan primarily focused on improving the code formatting and build processes for the Objective-C project. Their commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the tooling and automation needed to ensure consistent code style and automated testing. They updated the build scripts to use newer versions of clang-format, introduced custom formatters to address specific code style issues, and enhanced the pre-commit hooks.
objective-cteam-acommitformatted
alanf/deadlock
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 17 days
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