James Rochabrun
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Rochabrun is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of hands-on experience building native iOS and macOS apps using Swift and Objective-C. After teaching himself iOS development, he progressed from indie contractor roles and a consumer startup founder to leading app development at Kodak Alaris, Yahoo! Mail (Verizon Media), and now Airbnb. He specializes in shipping polished, production-grade mobile experiences—programmatic UI, Core Image/Core Graphics, REST integration, and navigating complex codebases and merge conflicts in Agile teams. Known for bridging product thinking and engineering, he’s contributed to app releases end-to-end, from UX implementation to App Store deployment. His background founding a fashion discovery startup and participating in accelerator programs gives him a rare blend of product intuition and execution discipline. Colleagues rely on him to simplify hard problems and deliver reliable, user-focused iOS features at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
iOS developer, iOS Development, Objective-C & Swift, iOS developer, iOS Development, Objective-C & Swift at Mobile makers
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (42)
chatgpt-api10
openai-api10
openai10
swift10
testing9
ios9
git9
git-branch9
swiftui-list9
delegates9
xcode9
ios-simulator9
swiftui8
uicollectionviewdiffabledatasource8
objective-c7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jamesrochabrun/PeruvianApp
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:99 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
jamesrochabrun/SwiftOpenAI
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
The most complete open-source Swift package for interacting with OpenAI's public API.
Contributions:47 releases, 43 reviews, 119 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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