Dmytro Rykun
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDmytro Rykun is a seasoned iOS and mobile software engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently building products at Snap after a senior engineering role at Meta. He has deep expertise in native iOS/macOS development from early-career system work to shipping large-scale features at consumer tech firms like Readdle and Viber. An active contributor to the high-profile react-native repository, he’s improved iOS TextInput behavior, added props like selection and textTransform, and fixed retain cycles and build issues—showing a knack for both user-facing polish and low-level reliability. Based in London and educated in computer engineering, Dmytro pairs pragmatic product-minded development with a history of tackling platform and performance edge cases that often go unnoticed until they break user experience.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Odesa National Polytechnic University
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Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
textinput10
scrollview9
fabric9
build-script8
app-framework8
swift4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 releases, 34 reviews, 36 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Dmytro's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the React Native iOS implementation, specifically addressing text input components. They added the `selection` prop to `TextInputProps`, implemented the `textTransform` prop, and fixed issues related to scroll view behavior with `contentInsetAdjustmentBehavior`. The user also corrected a retain cycle and improved the build process by addressing Hermes and source map generation.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
dmytrorykun/react-native
May 2022 - Jan 2025
A framework for building native applications using React
Contributions:384 pushes, 118 branches in 2 years 9 months
react-nativereactnative-applications
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