Andy Finnell
IOS Software Engineer at Pinterest
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAndy Finnell is a senior iOS and macOS engineer with 11 years of focused experience building consumer-facing apps and leading performance and architecture efforts. He has driven mobile architecture and delivery at Stitch Fix and now works on iOS performance at Pinterest, after leading iOS for ASDA at Walmart eCommerce. As a founder of multiple Mac and iOS products, he pairs product intuition with hands-on engineering—shipping utilities like Illuminate and acquiring and evolving niche Mac apps. His background includes principal engineering at Macromedia where he led Mac development on flagship products, giving him deep system-level Cocoa expertise. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he combines startup founder grit with large-company scale experience, often bridging product, performance, and platform concerns. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions and for turning legacy Mac knowledge into modern iOS performance wins.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer and Information Sciences, B.S., Computer and Information Sciences at East Tennessee State University
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Github Skills (35)
asynchronous10
markdown10
objective-c10
ios10
image10
thread-safety10
rendering10
pinterest10
appkit10
asyncdisplaykit10
webp10
texture10
commonmark10
uikit10
swift10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
andyfinnell/TestKit
Jul 2021 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
andyfinnell/NativeMarkKit
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
NativeMark is a flavor of Markdown designed to be rendered by native apps.
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 166 commits in 2 years 5 months
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