Andrew Walz
IOS Engineer L6 at Square
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Walz is an iOS engineer with 10 years’ experience building consumer and enterprise mobile apps, currently at Square after a senior staff role at Slack. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, having led mobile teams at Hootsuite, ClickDishes, and earlier startups where he owned roadmaps and delivery. Deep in Swift and native camera UX, he’s the primary contributor to SwiftyCam—an open-source, Snapchat-inspired iOS camera framework—fixing core camera behaviors and adding SPM support. His background includes developer tooling for AR and backend testing from his time at Crux AR, plus frontline Apple Genius experience troubleshooting hardware and OS issues. Based in Vancouver, he brings a pragmatic mix of product focus and platform-level polish that helps cross-functional teams ship robust mobile features. Notably, his work often targets tricky device and orientation edge cases that improve real-world camera reliability.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Science Biochemistry, Faculty of Science Biochemistry at University of Alberta
Github Skills (5)
camera10
swift10
ios10
avfoundation10
photo9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Awalz/SwiftyCam
Dec 2016 - May 2018
A Snapchat Inspired iOS Camera Framework written in Swift
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:96 commits, 12 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the `SwiftyCam` iOS camera framework, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements to core camera functionality. Their commits included addressing issues related to camera switching, image orientation, flash control, and device orientation handling. Furthermore, the user updated the demo project, refined gesture recognizers, and incorporated Swift Package Manager support.
camerasnapchatflashavfoundationswift
Awalz/SwiftyArk
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 1 PR, 48 pushes in 7 months
swiftarkecosystemswift-frameworkbuild-framework
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