George Snyder
Staff Mobile Engineer at John Deere
Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Snyder is a Staff Mobile Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling mobile products across fintech, healthcare, retail, and robotics. He blends hands-on iOS and cross-platform development with technical leadership—rebuilding core flows, migrating legacy UIs to modern frameworks like SwiftUI, and mentoring teams to adopt TDD and better delivery processes. At John Deere (via Bear Flag Robotics) he moved prototypes into production for autonomous agriculture, architecting real‑time MQTT pipelines via AWS IoT for onboard-offboard communication. A significant open-source contributor, he has improved the WordPress Gutenberg mobile editor and the Pocket Casts iOS app, bringing UX refinements and production telemetry into widely used projects. Comfortable navigating regulated environments, he’s repeatedly aligned engineering delivery with compliance and business goals while scaling orgs and launching high-impact releases. An Eagle Scout, he pairs a lifelong commitment to leadership with a pragmatic, delivery-first engineering style.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Otterbein University
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Github Skills (23)
debugging10
debug10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
wordpress10
ui-design10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
mobile10
swift10
javascript9
android-development9
networking8
cocoapods6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)
Mobile Developer (iOS/Android)Contributions:52 reviews, 179 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on the development and enhancement of the Gutenberg editor for mobile platforms. Their contributions include implementing support for the shortcode block on React Native, adding and improving the latest posts block with features like content controls, sorting, and category selection. The user also worked on theme color and gradient support and addressed issues with the RichText component. They addressed UI improvements, such as aligning the plus icon on the iOS stepper control.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:100 reviews, 317 commits, 197 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:George primarily worked on the iOS version of the WordPress mobile application, focusing on features related to the Gutenberg editor. Their contributions involved enhancing the cover block functionality to support video and background image uploads, particularly when importing from other applications. Additionally, they added new tracking events related to page template application and made adjustments for compatibility across various iOS versions and screen sizes. Their work also included refactoring the layout of the Gutenberg editor for enhanced UX.
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