Hector Zarate
Chief Technology Officer at Tab
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolHector Zarate is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 14 years of experience combining hands-on iOS engineering and strategic engineering management. He co-founded Tab and previously scaled and led multiple teams at Spotify, driving social integrations, growth initiatives, and a company-wide program that increased registrations by 10%. Known for turning individual contributor craft into people leadership, he built and developed engineering managers, raised team engagement dramatically, and instituted processes that improved test coverage and release reliability. Hector’s engineering roots show in open-source contributions to notable iOS projects (improving caching and styling frameworks) and in publishing Objective-C guidelines and visual UI frameworks at scale. He pairs executive training from MIT Sloan with a pragmatic product-focus: delivering business impact while enabling long-term speed and developer autonomy.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Certificate Management and Leadership, Executive Certificate Management and Leadership at MIT Sloan Executive EducationUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Computer and Information Sciences General, Computer and Information Sciences General at Stockholm University
Polish, Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
uikit10
ios10
stylesheets10
xctest10
ui-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/SPTPersistentCache
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Everyone tries to implement a cache at some point in their iOS app’s lifecycle, and this is ours.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 85 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hector primarily focused on implementing and writing unit tests for various classes within the SPTPersistentCache library. Their contributions include creating tests for `SPTDataCacheRecord`, `SPTPersistentCacheResponse`, `SPTPersistentDataCacheOptions`, `SPTTimerProxy`, and other supporting classes. These tests cover initializer methods and key functionalities, ensuring the reliability and correctness of the caching mechanisms. The user's work directly contributes to the quality and maintainability of the caching system within the iOS application.
lifecycleios-appcachingpointswift
tombenner/nui
Dec 2012 - Oct 2013
Style iOS apps with a stylesheet, similar to CSS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Hector primarily focused on enhancing the NUI framework for iOS application styling. Their contributions included fixing font-size rendering issues, adding support for text alignment in `UILabel` elements, and refactoring the code to utilize a NUI-wide constants file. They further optimized the imageFromColorName conversion and refactored the codebase to use simpler accessors and replace explicit class comparisons. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's functionality, maintainability, and efficiency in applying custom styling to various UI elements.
objective-cstylesheetsimilarcssstylesheets
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