Jogendra Kumar is a versatile software engineer with nine years' experience building and maintaining mobile-first products and backend services, currently based in Amsterdam and working at Just Eat Takeaway.com. He specializes in iOS development—contributing to notable open-source projects like FOSSASIA’s SUSI AI and Open Event apps—and has a track record of migrating large codebases across Swift versions, improving UX, and modularizing monolithic apps. Beyond mobile, he has built backend microservices in Go and participated in CI/CD and deployment automation, giving him true full-stack fluency. An active open-source maintainer and mentor, Jogendra combines hands-on engineering with community leadership, having reviewed hundreds of contributions during FOSSASIA programs. He pairs an applied physics background from IIT (BHU) with practical product experience, often solving platform-level integration problems that improve developer productivity and app reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Enginering Physics/Applied Physics, Engineer’s Degree, Enginering Physics/Applied Physics at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
An easy way to add a shimmering effect to any view with just one line of code. It is useful as an unobtrusive loading indicator.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:38 commits, 35 PRs, 75 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jogendra primarily worked on implementing a shimmering effect for iOS views, as indicated by the "LoadingShimmer" class and its integration within the example project. They added a singleton method for easy access to the shimmer functionality, implemented the start and stop covering methods, and modified the example app to demonstrate the shimmer effect on both a standard view and a table view. Their contributions focused on integrating the shimmer effect with table view cells and updating code to Swift 5 and addressing errors.
A curated list of Open Source example iOS apps developed in Swift. An amazing list for people who are beginners and learning ios development and for ios developers who need any example app or feature.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:14 reviews, 155 commits, 116 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jogendra appears to be adding and modifying a basic iOS app example. Their work primarily involves editing a single Swift file (`hello.swift`), introducing a simple "Welcome to iOS World!" message and making minor updates. The contributions suggest a focus on fundamental iOS development concepts and perhaps serves as an introductory example or a starting point for other developers exploring iOS development. The updates involve changing the author's name and adding a test line.
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Jogendra Kumar - Software Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway.com