Frank Valbuena
IOS Mobile Engineer at The Athletic
Bogota, Colombia
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Top SchoolFrank Valbuena is a seasoned iOS engineer and architect with nine years of professional experience building performant, scalable mobile apps and reusable frameworks for companies like The Athletic, Premise, Disney, and Royal Caribbean. He blends rigorous engineering discipline—TDD, SOLID principles, and clean architecture—with practical pragmatism to refactor chaotic codebases into maintainable systems and ship features quickly. Frank has led complex integrations (Kotlin Multiplatform networking wrappers, WebRTC/XMPP chat, crypto wallets) and optimized CoreData and concurrency hotspots to measurably improve app performance. A mathematician by training, he brings a methodical, simplicity-first mindset to design and mentoring, enjoying the craft of continuous improvement and developer enablement. Notably, he built an early iPad graphing app using OpenGL ES and Accelerate that was adopted by schools, showing a long-standing drive to bridge deep technical work with real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematician Mathematics, Mathematician Mathematics at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
boundaries10
swiftui9
architecture9
viewmodel9
mvvm9
swift9
clean-architecture9
coredata7
ios6
enums6
xmpp4
macos3
objective-c3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
frankvalbuena/iOS-Clean-Architecture-Example
Jan 2017 - May 2020
An iOS app designed using clean architecture and MVVM.
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 years 4 months
coredataios-appmvvmcleanios
frankvalbuena/Boundaries
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Source-Level Boundaries in Swift
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
boundariesswift
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