Eric Amorde
Senior Software Engineer at Square
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEric Amorde is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience focused on native iOS development, currently building core Foundation features at Square in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings deep expertise in Swift and Objective-C and a history of shipping production apps across payments and consumer hardware at Square, PAX Labs, and FIS. An active open-source contributor, Eric has improved the widely used CocoaPods ecosystem—adding plugin support, better xcframework handling, and installer/build fixes—demonstrating fluency with build systems and dependency management. His background also includes backend work and automation (Django and Python) from earlier roles, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective on mobile engineering. Known for optimizing build performance and tackling tricky project configuration problems, he combines hands-on coding with attention to long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Sonoma State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Yonsei University
Korean
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Github Skills (18)
dependency-management10
objective-c10
ios10
build-system10
ruby10
xcode10
project-configuration10
macos10
package-manager10
cocoapods10
build-automation9
performance-optimization9
swift9
testing8
uitableview6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/Xcodeproj
Jun 2018 - Apr 2022
Create and modify Xcode projects from Ruby.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (with focus on project configuration and build system)
Software Engineer (with focus on project configuration and build system)Contributions:7 releases, 16 reviews, 41 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the project's build system and configuration management, focusing on improving performance and maintainability. This included optimizing code related to string allocations and other minor performance improvements. The user also updated constants and settings, and added support for macro expansions within the scheme launch actions. These changes collectively improved the project's build process and overall functionality.
machplistmodifyrubyxcodeproj
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Jul 2015 - Mar 2022
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 98 reviews, 204 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on improving the CocoaPods dependency manager, making multiple contributions to its core functionality. They implemented support for source provider plugins, enhanced xcframework slice handling, fixed various build issues, and refined the project's integration with user targets. Their work involved modifying key installer components, adding support for dynamic frameworks, and addressing code generation and file referencing issues within the project's build system.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
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