Grant Paul
Senior Manager, Platform Professional Services
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarGrant Paul is a Senior Manager in Platform Professional Services with 15 years of software engineering experience, now leading platform delivery at CrowdStrike from California. He blends hands-on engineering and people leadership, with deep iOS and macOS expertise demonstrated by substantive open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Facebook's Buck build system and the Dolphin emulator. His work shows a knack for bridging platform tooling and native UI—adding build-system support, improving Xcode project generation, and implementing Retina and native-fullscreen support—so he can move teams from prototype to polished platform integrations. Known for pragmatic refactors and stability-focused fixes, he quietly improves developer and user experiences across codebases.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
objective-c10
debug10
c-language10
ios10
mobile-development10
user-interface10
os-development10
build-system10
ui-design10
interface-design10
osdev10
mobile-application10
xcode10
swift10
uikit10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/Tweaks
Mar 2014 - Jan 2017
An easy way to fine-tune, and adjust parameters for iOS apps in development.
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 30 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to the `facebookarchive/tweaks` repository, an iOS library for in-app parameter tuning. Their work focused on enhancing the library's functionality and user experience. Key contributions include adding support for various integer value types, implementing action tweaks, fixing iPad positioning issues, and improving the stepper controls for adjusting tweak values. The user also addressed several bugs related to dismissal behavior, and improved the stability of the library.
cocoapodsparametersfinetuneswift
facebookarchive/Shimmer
Feb 2014 - Oct 2016
An easy way to add a simple, shimmering effect to any view in an iOS app.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:38 commits, 16 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the iOS-specific "shimmer" library. They addressed issues related to incorrect return types, fade duration discrepancies, and initial setup problems. Further contributions included fixing a problem with the shimmering effect when bounds were set after it started, and adding iOS 6 support to the example project. The user demonstrated expertise in Objective-C, specifically for iOS development, and also worked on the UI-related aspects of the library.
shimmerin-viewios11ios-appshimmering
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