Clifton Roberts
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolClifton Roberts is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of hands-on experience building high-quality iOS applications at companies like PayPal, Quizlet, Lyft, and HotelTonight. He specializes in architecting mobile frameworks and led Quizlet’s shift from MVC to a reactive MVVM architecture using RxSwift, while also mentoring engineering teams. Clifton has deep practical experience migrating codebases from Objective-C to Swift, shipping subscription and payment features, and solving complex concurrency and data-service challenges. Beyond product work, he’s built performance-focused graphics and physics engines earlier in his career and maintains a pragmatic, prompt-driven approach to building tools and prototypes.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Software Engineering Digital Electronics 3D Graphics, Computer Science Software Engineering Digital Electronics 3D Graphics at The University of Texas at Dallas
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Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
beautifier9
carthage9
xcode-extension8
formatting8
xcode-plugin8
parallax7
swiftlint7
command-line-tool7
braze6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Parallaxer/Parallaxer
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
A framework for crafting parallax effects in Swift.
Contributions:29 commits, 26 PRs, 86 pushes in 5 years 6 months
parallaxcocoapodsanimationswiftios
Parallaxer/PhotoBook
Aug 2016 - May 2021
An example app which showcases the Parallaxer framework.
Contributions:58 commits, 26 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 10 months
showcasesandroid
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