Helena Ford
Chief Technology Officer at StackTiger
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHelena Ford is a CTO and entrepreneur with a decade of engineering experience building AI-infused web and mobile products, currently leading a stealth venture while running her consultancy StackTiger. She combines hands-on full‑stack and mobile development—contributing notable iOS improvements to the widely used Notifee React Native notifications library—with strategic leadership from founding DashHound to heading engineering teams. Her work spans machine learning for social commerce, productizing influencer-driven discovery and commerce flows, and shipping reliable production systems for clients. Based in Manchester, she is an active open-source maintainer, lifelong learner and advocate for women in tech who often pairs travel with hacking on side projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Caldicot SchoolMEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Bristol
English
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Github Skills (5)
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ios10
react-native10
user-notifications10
swift9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
invertase/notifee
May 2020 - Jan 2023
⚛️ A feature rich notifications library for React Native.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:34 releases, 66 reviews, 502 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Helena primarily focused on enhancing the iOS side of the React Native Notifee library. They implemented support for attachments, including local images, videos, and GIFs. The contributions also include fixes to prevent issues with badge counts, remote notification responses, trigger notifications and improvements to the notification service extension.
reactreact-nativefeature-richandroidnotifications
invertase/react-native-notifee
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
⚛️ A feature rich notifications library for React Native Android & iOS, built by @invertase, the authors of @react-native-firebase.
Contributions:37 releases, 13 reviews, 168 commits in 1 year 3 months
reactreact-native-androidreact-nativefeature-richfirebase
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