Jerrold Poh
Founder at Blue Cottage Software
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJerrold Poh is a seasoned engineering leader and Fractional CTO based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience helping startups and scale-ups ship reliable mobile and web products. He blends hands-on mobile expertise—from leading iOS, watchOS and tvOS teams to fixing front-end UI issues in open-source projects—with strategic leadership roles driving product strategy, hiring first engineers, and implementing agile practices. As Development Team Lead at Xero and former founder of a mobile consultancy, he’s comfortable scaling teams, running engineering audits, and embedding technical leadership without full-time overhead. Notably, his contributions to a desktop Facebook Messenger client highlight a practical eye for UX polish and cross-platform quirks that often separate good products from great ones.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology IT (hons), Bachelor of Technology IT (hons) at University of Auckland
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Github Skills (15)
css10
gui-application10
javascript10
user-interface10
electron10
desktop-application10
objective-c6
ios6
coredata6
sqlite6
switch-statement6
persistence6
iphone6
database6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
danielbuechele/goofy
Aug 2015 - Feb 2020
macOS app for Facebook Messenger
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 136 commits, 30 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jerrold primarily focused on front-end development, specifically for a desktop client application. Their work involved fixing UI issues and implementing new features related to the Facebook Messenger interface. The user's contributions included updating and modifying CSS and JavaScript files to improve the user experience, particularly concerning the display and functionality of elements within the application. They also addressed bugs related to keyboard shortcuts and notification behaviors.
macos
zovafit/SwiftPhoenixClient
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
Connect your Phoenix and iOS applications through WebSockets!
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 10 months
websocketselixirwebsocketiosphoenix
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