Ismail Gulek
IOS Lead at ayoba
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolIsmail Gulek is an iOS Lead with nine years of experience building production-grade mobile apps and leading engineering efforts from startups to scale-ups. Based in Istanbul, he progressed through senior iOS roles at Element and stc pay before taking on leadership at ayoba, combining hands-on Swift/SwiftUI development with team and product ownership. He contributes to prominent open-source Matrix projects, improving localization workflows for Element X and adding client authentication features in the matrix-rust-sdk, showing fluency across iOS, Rust FFI, and internationalization. Known for fixing nuanced UI and layout issues as well as architecting localization tooling, he brings practical attention to usability and global readiness.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bilgisayar ve Bilişim Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, 2.99, Bilgisayar ve Bilişim Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, 2.99 at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (26)
ios10
ui-design10
cffi10
uid10
localization10
front-end-development10
foreign10
ffi10
swift10
rust10
authentication9
objective-c9
user-authentication9
sdk9
uikit9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
element-hq/element-ios
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:22 releases, 452 reviews, 2208 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ismail's commits primarily focus on the development of the iOS application, Element. Contributions include updating UI components such as switches and the handling of text attributes within the application. Further contributions include addressing layout issues and adding UI elements such as thread list buttons and icons.
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element-hq/element-x-ios
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Next generation Matrix client for iOS built with SwiftUI on top of matrix-rust-sdk.
Role in this project:Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:145 reviews, 43 commits, 64 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ismail focused primarily on setting up and improving the localization infrastructure for the iOS application. They implemented a localizer script, handled string generation, and added a GitHub workflow for issue management. The user also addressed pluralization, reverted text changes, and contributed to various localization-related tasks, demonstrating a deep understanding of internationalization best practices for the project.
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