David Langley
Senior Engineering Manager at Upswing Golf
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolDavid Langley is an engineering manager and seasoned mobile-first technologist with 11 years of experience leading teams and shipping production-grade iOS and Android clients. Based in Dublin, he currently leads engineering at Element after progressing from senior engineer roles and formerly heading mobile efforts at HubSpot and IBM. He combines hands-on expertise in mobile SDKs and full-stack web work—contributing to high-profile Matrix/Element projects around notifications, permalinks and UI/UX refinements—with leadership in product delivery and developer workflows. An entrepreneur as founder of Upswing Golf, he blends product intuition with technical execution and a knack for untangling tricky platform bugs (notably iPad and call-related crashes).
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA (mod), Computer Science, BA (mod), Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin
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Github Skills (27)
kotlin10
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javascript10
ios10
user-interface10
android-sdk10
ui-design10
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android-development10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
element-hq/element-ios
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:128 reviews, 333 commits, 101 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements within the iOS application. They addressed a crash related to direct messaging within call handling, and corrected a crash on iPad during search functionality. Furthermore, the user introduced new features, such as improved messaging and UI elements for notifications.
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element-hq/element-android
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
A Matrix collaboration client for Android.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:40 reviews, 146 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the Android mobile client for the Element application. The commits show a focus on UI modifications, preference implementation, and refactoring existing fragments related to notification settings. The user also addressed discrepancies between the mobile client and the web implementation regarding notifications. They contributed to the advanced notification setting features.
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