Summary
Jason Ji is a Senior iOS Engineer with 12 years of Apple-platform experience and 11 years focused on iOS, currently building mobile experiences at Spotify. He has led teams and technical migrations at Capital One, driving high-visibility features seen by hundreds of thousands monthly, architecting API migrations, and automating regression testing to 100%. His background spans prototyping AR, NFC, and ML-powered experiences, contributing 10 granted patents and shipping prototype work into production. Earlier roles include full-stack iOS and Apple Watch development at MITRE, where he also released open-source tooling for Semantic MediaWiki visualizations. Jason pairs deep technical craftsmanship with mentoring experience—running weekly training sessions for junior engineers—and brings a scientist's rigor from an MS in organic chemistry and a BS with highest distinction. Outside of work he’s a dad who candidly describes his GitHub as a graveyard of bug-report projects, hinting at a pragmatic, problem-focused approach to open source.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Organic Chemistry, M.S., Organic Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley
TJ Diploma, Computer Science, TJ Diploma, Computer Science at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
B.S., Chemistry with Highest Distinction, B.S., Chemistry with Highest Distinction at University of Virginia