Brad Hesse
Software Engineer at Meta
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrad Hesse is a versatile mobile-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance apps and SDKs across iOS, Android, and cross-platform frameworks. He’s shipped large-scale notification infrastructure at Meta, handling billions of daily events for Instagram and Messenger, and previously maintained and enhanced OneSignal’s widely used push notification SDKs and wrappers (including Flutter, Cordova, and React Native). Proficient in Swift and Objective-C with solid C#/Kotlin skills, Brad combines deep native expertise (AVFoundation, HLS streaming) with a knack for bridging native code to higher-level frameworks. He’s driven GDPR, email, and iOS 12 initiatives in production SDKs and has a history of pragmatic, testable designs from startup apps to global platforms. Quietly practical, he often focuses on the platform-specific edge cases—simulator compatibility, concurrency fixes, and media handling—that make large-scale mobile systems reliable.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (31)
kotlin10
objective-c10
debug10
ios10
react-native10
sendmail10
cordova10
flutter-apps10
send-email10
android-sdk10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
java10
e-mail10
android-developer10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OneSignal/react-native-onesignal
Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
React Native Library for OneSignal Push Notifications Service
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:17 releases, 150 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Brad primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the React Native library for OneSignal push notifications. Their work focused on improving the integration of the OneSignal SDK, including switching to a static library, implementing iOS-specific features such as in-focus displaying, and adding support for email functionality. Additionally, the user addressed simulator compatibility issues and updated the project's README to improve documentation for the notification service extension.
react-native-onesignalreactpushonesignal-notificationsreact-native-library
OneSignal/OneSignal-Flutter-SDK
Jul 2018 - Jan 2019
OneSignal is a free push notification service for mobile apps. This plugin makes it easy to integrate your flutter app with OneSignal
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 releases, 72 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brad's contributions focused on implementing features and fixing issues within the iOS codebase of the OneSignal Flutter SDK. Their work involved adding observers for notification events and modifying existing classes related to notifications, action buttons, and subscription states. This included converting notification objects to JSON format, suggesting a focus on data handling and bridging the native iOS functionality with the Flutter framework. The commits show a direct interaction with the native iOS SDK components to enable the delivery of push notifications.
pushnotification-servicenotificationspush-notificationios
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