Summary
DJ Mitchell is an engineering manager and seasoned iOS specialist with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise mobile products, currently leading iOS at Whatnot after rising through hands-on roles there and at Grailed, Timehop, and others. He combines a passion for elegant, maintainable Swift and ObjectiveβC code with deep familiarity in UIKit, RxSwift, Moya, CoreAnimation, AVFoundation, Apple Pay, hardware peripheral integration, and release automation. DJ has shipped 5+ App Store apps and multiple enterprise applications, and he favors scalable architectures and test-driven workflows that keep teams productive. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical leadership that still dives into code when needed, mentoring engineers while shaping product direction. Outside of work he plays chess and crafts cocktails, a hint at his systematic yet creative problem-solving style.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Centro Bartolome de Las Casas
Spanish, English