Charles Scalesse
VP, Mobile Engineering at Zola.com
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Scalesse is a seasoned mobile engineering executive with 14 years of experience leading iOS and Android teams and scaling consumer apps to millions of downloads. As VP of Mobile Engineering at Zola he transitioned from the company’s first mobile hire to architecting platforms, building teams, and remaining a hands-on iOS principal engineer. His background spans award-winning consumer products at Jetsetter and broad mobile program leadership at Hachette, blending product sensibility with engineering rigor. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved UI UX tooling—authoring popular Toast libraries in Objective-C and Swift—and made production-grade contributions to the Stripe iOS SDK around bank account tokenization. Based in New York, he’s known for crafting world-class user experiences while keeping an engineer’s attention to implementation detail.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Manhattanville College
Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios10
model-driven10
testing10
ui-design10
functional-testing10
model-building10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
unit-test10
modeling10
model-driven-development10
user-interface9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scalessec/Toast
Jul 2011 - Nov 2017
An Objective-C category that adds toast notifications to the UIView object class.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 194 commits, 24 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to the Objective-C project by enhancing the UI of the toast notifications. They fixed typos, improved code formatting, and made functional improvements, such as adding a shadow, and supporting a tap to dismiss feature. Moreover, they introduced new features like activity views and adjusted auto-resizing masks to fix rotation-related issues in the UI. These contributions indicate a focus on improving user interaction and overall UI quality.
objective-cuiview
scalessec/Toast-Swift
Nov 2015 - Dec 2019
A Swift extension that adds toast notifications to the UIView object class.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 202 commits, 59 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Charles primarily contributed to building out the functionality of a Swift extension for creating and displaying toast notifications within a UI. They focused on implementing the `ToastStyle` struct, which defines the appearance of the toast views. Further contributions included setting up various methods for presenting and managing the toasts, and they also cleaned up documentation.
swiftuiview
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