Jeffrey Wear
Staff Software Engineer, WatchOS System UI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Wear is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building iOS/watchOS system software and full-stack web applications. Currently leading System UI on watchOS at Apple, he combines deep Swift/Objective-C expertise with modern UI frameworks like SwiftUI and UIKit to ship polished platform features. He has a track record of coaching senior engineers, running intern and new-grad programs, and moving between individual contribution and people leadership roles. Earlier career roles at Mixmax and Inkling gave him strong frontend and backend discipline, and he contributed front-end improvements to the popular gmail.js project, adding dynamic rerendering and robust localization handling. His background includes an MS in Computer Science and a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford, reflecting both technical depth and human-centered design thinking. Pragmatic and curious, he bridges low-level system work and user-facing product polish while mentoring teams to scale.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
chrome-extension10
gmail10
google-chrome-extension10
localization10
testing9
apidoc9
api9
swift6
swiftui6
xcode6
automation6
menu6
diffabledatasource6
subliminal6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
KartikTalwar/gmail.js
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Gmail JavaScript API
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily focused on enhancing the `gmail.js` JavaScript API, specifically adding and refining functionality related to UI re-rendering and localization. Their commits introduce a `rerender` method to dynamically refresh the Gmail UI under certain conditions, including providing a callback function for post-render actions. Furthermore, the user addressed localization issues by modifying the code to correctly retrieve locale information and expanding the supported format to accommodate more complex language codes.
apijavascriptgmailjavascript-apigoogle-docs
mixmaxhq/iron-router
Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
A client and server side router designed specifically for Meteor.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
routermeteorserver-side
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