Andrew Yates
Staff Engineer at Buffer
San Francisco, California, United States
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RockstarAndrew Yates is a Staff Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years building native iOS apps and leading mobile teams, currently shaping Buffer’s iOS experience. He combines product-focused engineering with an active indie developer streak—shipping apps like Alpenglow and event apps used by thousands under his AndyDev moniker. At Buffer he progressed from iOS Engineering Lead to Staff Engineer, contributing both to new features and to open-source tooling such as adding Buffer integration to the widely used ShareKit sharing library. Known for pragmatic UI/UX attention and reliable integrations (including OAuth and API updates), he balances large-scale product ownership with hands-on feature development across web and mobile.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
apim10
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shareware10
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mobile-development10
twitter-api9
url-shortener9
shorturl9
iphone6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ShareKit/ShareKit
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Drop in sharing features for all iPhone and iPad apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:36 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on integrating the Buffer sharing service into the ShareKit library, adding the ability to share URLs and text to Buffer. They implemented the necessary authorization, UI presentation, and content handling, along with configuration options. Additionally, the user updated the Twitter sharing functionality to use the 1.1 API and resolved a crash related to Twitter OAuth. They also added an option to control URL shortening within the Buffer sharing flow.
ipaddrop-iniphonereact-nativesharing
bufferapp/diggdigg
Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
DiggDigg is the floating all-in-one share bar for your WordPress website.
Contributions:72 commits in 1 year 2 months
floatingall-in-onewordpresswordpress-websitewordpress-plugin
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