Jimmy Hickman
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Stone Ridge Home Owners Association
Petaluma, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Hickman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building scalable mobile and platform systems, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Rakuten Rewards. He excels at turning complex ideas into modular, maintainable systems—recently leading a modular in-app browser rollout and CI/CD modernization that sped feature delivery across teams. Known as an approachable, execution-focused leader, he mentors engineers and drives cross-team alignment on technical strategy and quality. Jimmy blends deep mobile expertise (iOS/Swift/Objective-C) with full lifecycle product experience from founding small agencies to shipping enterprise SaaS. Off the clock he channels the same builder’s mindset into filmmaking, woodworking, and Raspberry Pi–driven light and sound shows, a creative practice that fuels his systems thinking and unconventional problem solving. Based in Petaluma, he’s motivated by opportunities that combine technical challenge with tangible user impact.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Honors, High School Diploma Honors at Healdsburg High SchoolBachelor of Arts – Criminal Justice Minor in Computer Science Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration, Bachelor of Arts – Criminal Justice Minor in Computer Science Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration at Sonoma State UniversityUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (20)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
swift10
macos10
carthage10
cocoapods10
uiview9
swiftui8
json-data8
json8
json-parser7
swiftyjson7
floating6
uikit4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Appmazo/AppmazoFoundation
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Collection of extensions and tools for common app development techniques.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
techniquesandroidkotlinextensionsios
Appmazo/NWSTokenView
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
NWSTokenView is a flexible UIView subclass that shows a collection of objects in a similar manner to the Messages app.
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 9 months
cocoapodssimilaruiviewswiftios
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