Gasper Kolenc
IOS Architect at Mercari, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolGasper Kolenc is an iOS architect and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building high-performance mobile products used by hundreds of millions of people. Currently leading the GroundUp rebuild of Mercari’s iOS app in Tokyo, he combines deep platform expertise with regular shipping cadence to maintain performance at scale. He previously led iOS at Dubsmash and founded Tingles, a Y Combinator-backed video platform that grew to over 2M users and a $10M valuation, owning video infrastructure, encoding and mobile stacks. A three-time Apple student scholar and a master's graduate in computer science, he blends academic rigor with startup grit and a knack for shipping end-to-end systems. Notable for repeatedly founding and scaling consumer apps from single-engineer prototypes to multi-million user products, he brings both strategic architecture vision and hands-on execution.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y CombinatorMaster’s Degree, Computer and Information Science, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Science at University of Ljubljana
English, Slovenian, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (131)
ergonomics10
composition10
loading-animation10
uikit10
swiftui10
architecture10
modularity10
youtube10
placeholder10
swift10
skeleton10
android-apps10
cli10
ffmpeg10
deep-linking10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gapl/PushReview
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:6 releases, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
gapl/XCDYouTubeKit
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 tags in 3 months
tvosyoutube-videoyoutube-video-playeryoutubevideo-player
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