Jean-pierre Simard
Director Of Mobile Engineering at Ramp
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-pierre Simard is a Director of Mobile Engineering with 14 years of experience building and scaling iOS and Android teams, currently leading Ramp’s mobile organization to deliver world-class apps for finance. He previously shaped multimodal experiences and cross-platform networking at Lyft, drove Apple platforms at Realm, and founded a mobile studio, blending product-minded engineering with hands-on development. Jean-pierre combines deep systems and build expertise—evident from contributions to Homebrew tooling, Xcode installers, and Swift core projects—with pragmatic leadership in CI, static analysis, and incident review processes. He has a track record of mentoring engineers, initiating cross-cutting working groups, and co-authoring patents that improved observability and networking control. Based in Montreal with a BSc in Electrical Engineering, he brings a rare mix of low-level build/devops chops and mobile product leadership. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained open-source impact on tooling used by iOS developers (SourceKitten, SwiftSyntax, SwiftLint, xcodes), which accelerates team productivity.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa
French
Github Skills (62)
dependency-management10
objective-c10
maintenance10
c-language10
package-management10
api-design10
foundation10
testing10
command-line-interface10
rspec10
linux10
bash10
document-generation10
ruby10
homebrew10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
jpsim/SourceKitten
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
An adorable little framework and command line tool for interacting with SourceKit.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 releases, 49 reviews, 1088 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jean-pierre primarily contributed to enhancing the `sourcekitten` project's capabilities to support C/C++ structs, fields, and Objective-C ivars. These additions involved modifying existing Swift code to incorporate new language features and improve the extraction of information from C-based code. Additionally, the user focused on improving file path handling, correcting documentation comment extraction, and fixing minor inconsistencies within the project's codebase.
command-line-toolsourcekitswiftxcodeswiftlint
realm/SwiftLint
May 2015 - Jan 2023
A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:106 releases, 428 reviews, 2534 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jean-pierre's contributions focused on refactoring the code to improve consistency. The main focus was improving code formatting by ensuring all rule descriptions followed a consistent format. The user also fixed issues, mainly surrounding trailing whitespace and incorrect syntax and added support for various coding patterns like handling cases for multiple closures.
linterswift-package-managerbazellintingcode-quality
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