Itay Brenner
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolItay Brenner is a seasoned iOS engineer with 13 years of experience building performant mobile tools and developer-facing SDKs, currently at Sentry after Emerge Tools' acquisition. He combines full-stack fluency—backend, frontend and native iOS—with a strong open-source mindset, contributing to projects like CocoaPods and device-performance tooling that reverse-engineer Xcode protocols. As a former Senior iOS lead at MediaLab and Mercado Libre he has driven migrations, improved crash-free metrics and launched features that measurably increased engagement. He also co-founded a stealth AI startup, organizes local meetups, and teaches blockchain and Solidity at Universidad ORT Uruguay, guiding students through practical smart-contract projects. Known for pragmatic debugging expertise, he built and maintained open-source stack-trace recording tools that materially improved iOS observability for teams and clients.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Matemathics And Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS, Matemathics And Computer Sciences at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyEngineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad ORT Uruguay
Spanish, English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (19)
dependency-manager10
unit-testing10
ios10
python10
swiftui-app10
xcode10
avfoundation10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
swiftui10
test-automation10
webcam9
ruby9
objective-c8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Itaybre/CameraController
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
📷 Control USB Cameras from an app
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 121 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Itay primarily worked on implementing the core functionality of a USB camera controller application. They developed the initial project setup, including the basic application structure with AppDelegate and ContentView, utilizing SwiftUI for the UI. Furthermore, they added device management capabilities, creating a DeviceManager class with the ability to monitor for connected and disconnected devices. They extended the app with settings views and a status bar menu, enabling a more user-friendly experience for managing camera settings.
uvcwebcamcamerausbios
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Itay primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying unit tests within the `cocoapods/cocoapods` repository. Their work focused on creating tests to validate specific functionalities, such as the deletion of the `ASSETCATALOG_COMPILER_APPICON_NAME` key and the behavior of dependency downloads. They also addressed linting issues within the test suite. Furthermore, they added integration tests to ensure proper functionality of the installation process with the "just_download" flag enabled.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
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