Summary
Cyan Villarin is a Senior iOS Engineer with over a decade in software development and 7+ years focused on customer-facing iOS apps, currently building crypto buy/sell features and Auto Investment at Mercari’s Mercoin team. Proficient across SwiftUI, MVVM, Swift Concurrency, Combine/RxSwift and UIKit, Cyan blends modern reactive architectures with solid testing and CI experience (Xcode Cloud, Bitrise). Comfortable working in Japanese environments, they’ve shipped features for consumer finance, language learning, childcare health apps and internal iPad systems for railways, often performing code reviews and cross-functional planning. Creator of the Chatzone iOS app and active enough to publish iOS content on YouTube, Cyan brings a product-minded approach to apps with large user bases. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, they favor Agile practices while navigating both legacy Objective-C and cutting-edge Swift ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, Highest Semestral GWA Attained: 1.1974 (2nd Sem 2017-2018), BS Computer Science, Highest Semestral GWA Attained: 1.1974 (2nd Sem 2017-2018) at University of the Philippines Diliman
Japanese Language, Japanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language, Japanese Language and Literature at Akita University
English, Japanese, Tagalog