Eric Jensen
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Jensen is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building high-quality iOS applications and platform tooling, currently at Apple after senior engineering leadership roles at Adobe, Frame.io, Nike, and Kiva. He has led mobile teams and product launches from scratch—most notably founding Kiva’s mobile program and driving SNKRS expansion into Europe and China—while maintaining core open-source iOS frameworks. A hands-on engineer, Eric contributes to well-known projects like Facebook’s iOS SDK and AsyncDisplayKit, focusing on sharing features, video playback robustness, and animated GIF handling. He blends pragmatic code maintenance and refactoring with feature work, improving performance, readability, and long-lived developer APIs. Based in Durham, NC, he brings both startup agility and enterprise-scale discipline to cross-functional engineering efforts. Colleagues rely on him for shipping resilient mobile experiences and mentoring teams through complex launches and platform integrations.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (16)
videojs10
objective-c10
media-playback10
swift10
uikit10
debug10
ios10
sdk10
avfoundation10
video-player10
playback10
image-processing10
mobile-development9
animation9
uiimageview9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dtorres/OLImageView
Mar 2013 - Jul 2013
Animated GIFs implemented the right way
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the `olimageview` repository, which is focused on animated GIFs. Their work involved implementing core functionality for handling animated GIFs, specifically adding methods for image loading and integrating with existing UIImage methods. Further contributions included improvements to frame duration accuracy and overall application performance. They also fixed minor issues like compiler warnings and indentation.
imageanimatedgifsanimated-gifsgif
facebookarchive/AsyncDisplayKit
Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Smooth asynchronous user interfaces for iOS apps.
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 27 PRs, 26 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the iOS mobile application by fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the ASVideoNode component. Their work included checking asset types, correcting documentation comments, replacing deprecated features, and improving code readability. They also addressed issues related to video playback, including handling playback completion, backgrounding the app, and buffer management.
asynchronoususer-interfacesswiftiosasync
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