Jesse Farsong
Senior IOS Engineer, Loom IOS at Atlassian
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Farsong is a Senior iOS Engineer with 13 years of professional experience, currently building Loom iOS at Atlassian after leading product and engineering efforts at Loom and Blinkist. He combines deep iOS expertise with a Ruby on Rails background, enabling him to bridge mobile client work with backend considerations and ship end-to-end features. Jesse has a track record of improving team delivery and developer experience—splitting monoliths into frameworks, instituting debugging tools, and raising sprint completion from under 10% to over 95%. He contributes to prominent open-source Swift projects like RxSwift and RxAlamofire, where he improved delegate proxies, tests, and performance-sensitive test code. Based in Denver, he’s pragmatic and process-minded, often tackling technical debt and cross-functional coordination to accelerate teams. An early ACM chapter co-founder, he still invests in mentoring and internal workshops that cultivate curiosity across engineering and product.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (16)
swift10
ios10
rxswift10
alamofire10
reactive-programming10
rxcocoa10
networking10
xctest10
testing10
functional-programming9
observer9
reactivecocoa6
moya6
uirefreshcontrol6
reactivex6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RxSwiftCommunity/RxAlamofire
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
RxSwift wrapper around the elegant HTTP networking in Swift Alamofire
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 12 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Jesse focused on improving the testing coverage and quality of the RxAlamofire library. Their contributions involved fixing logic errors in the existing tests, specifically related to progress handling within data requests. They also refactored test code, including moving equality extensions and removing unnecessary operators to enhance clarity and maintainability. Further improvements included converting properties for better performance.
rxswiftalamofirenetworkingswift
ReactiveX/RxSwift
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Reactive Programming in Swift
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 21 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on adding and refactoring code related to RxCocoa's iOS extensions, specifically for `UITabBar`. Their contributions included the creation of a new `RxTabBarDelegateProxy`, the addition of methods and tests for the tab bar delegate, and the renaming of delegate methods. Furthermore, they made several minor updates involving comment improvements and the use of new Swift syntax, as well as fixing typos in comments.
observerunidirectionalrxswiftreactive-programmingswift
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