Ellen Shapiro is a mobile software engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in native iOS and Android development, focused on building delightful, reliable apps that "make your phone go beep" for fun and profit. Based in Rochester, NY, she pairs hands-on engineering with teaching and public speaking—her slide decks are available on SpeakerDeck—bringing clarity to complex mobile topics. Ellen also contributes to open-source tooling around iOS build automation and coverage (notably improving XcodeCoverage build scripts and Cobertura XML output), showing a pragmatic knack for making developer tooling robust across varied build environments. Colleagues know her as a practical mentor who enjoys demystifying mobile ecosystems while shipping production-quality apps.
Code coverage for Xcode projects (Objective-C only)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Contributions:37 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ellen primarily contributed to the automation and configuration of the XcodeCoverage project. They updated the build scripts, specifically focusing on quoting paths and ensuring proper environment variable handling for various build scenarios, including Cocoapods integration. Their work involved modifying shell scripts (envcov.sh, exportenv.sh) to correctly locate dependencies and integrate with different build configurations, ensuring the project's coverage analysis runs successfully. Additionally, they added and modified Cobertura XML generation functionalities.
A light-weight URLSession wrapper for building simple API clients.
Contributions:8 releases, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 3 months
apilight-weightapi-clientslightsimple-api
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