Christopher聽Pickslay
Co-Founder at Two Bit Labs
Pleasant Hill, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Pickslay is a seasoned mobile application developer and Co-Founder with 14 years of experience building user-focused products from concept through launch. Based in Pleasant Hill, California, he leads Two Bit Labs, a studio that partners with startups and established brands to design, test, and ship polished iOS and Android apps for clients like Bleacher Report, Target, and ModCloth. His background spans product leadership and engineering鈥攆ormerly directing product and technology at GreatSchools鈥攕o he bridges strategy, user research, and hands-on implementation. Christopher has deep experience improving quality and test infrastructure, evidenced by contributions that modernized Objective-C testing in the popular Expecta matcher framework. He is comfortable operating across the stack (native mobile, backend services, analytics) and is known for turning educational and media ideas into scalable, well-tested products. His BA in English from UC Berkeley underpins a pragmatic, user-centered approach to product storytelling and design.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at University of California, Berkeley
Spanish
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objective-c
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios10
testing10
test-framework10
xctest10
test-automation10
nspredicate9
iphone9
uitableview9
xcode9
coredata9
swift9
cocoa-touch9
php6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
specta/expecta
Dec 2011 - Oct 2013
A Matcher Framework for Objective-C/Cocoa
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure of the Expecta framework. They added support for XCTest, the modern testing framework for Objective-C, including the addition of XCTest target. The user updated assertion methods to use XCTAssert* macros when running with XCTest and also added test cases to verify that XCTest failure methods are correctly called. The contributions suggest a focus on adapting the testing process to different testing environments and ensuring the quality of the Expecta framework.
matcherobjective-ccocoaios
twobitlabs/TBLCategories
Mar 2012 - Mar 2021
Various Objective-C categories
Contributions:214 commits, 14 pushes in 9 years 2 months
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