Summary
Doug Sjoquist is a seasoned iOS architect and engineering leader with 12+ years focused on high-scale, revenue-critical native apps for retailers and enterprises. He has led checkout and payment engineering at Walmart and Sam’s Club, modernizing legacy Objective-C codebases to Swift and reactive architectures while maintaining near-perfect crash rates and high test coverage. As founder of Ivy Gulch LLC he specializes in rescue, stabilization, and feature delivery at scale, pairing hands-on implementation with stakeholder-driven product decisions. Doug mentors teams, built standardized hiring processes that scaled organizations, and has a track record of shipping resilient systems supporting millions of daily users. His background in enterprise Java and systems for defense and manufacturing gives him uncommon depth across architectures and long-lived systems. Colocated in the Cincinnati area, he combines pragmatism and technical breadth to turn complex requirements into production-ready iOS solutions.
12 years of coding experience
44 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Cedarville University