Jonah Katz
Engineering Manager, IOS Lead at xAI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJonah Katz is an engineering leader and iOS specialist with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing mobile products and leading cross-functional teams. Currently Engineering Manager and iOS Lead at xAI, he drives core iOS features—timelines, onboarding, video, search, profiles and premium—which reflects deep product and platform ownership at scale. His background spans senior engineering roles at X/Twitter, Facebook, and Spotify, plus founding and shipping consumer apps like Poker Chill, showing a blend of startup grit and big-tech execution. Jonah pairs hands-on iOS craftsmanship with product instincts honed from founding teams, and he’s known for shipping delightful social and multimedia experiences. A UCF computer science graduate, he brings a practical mix of engineering management, mobile architecture, and entrepreneurial curiosity—once turning a childhood hackysack side hustle into an early lesson in product-market fit.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bar-Ilan UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (73)
ui-components10
mobile-web10
framework710
javascript10
stencil10
ionic10
angular10
progressive-web-apps10
typescript10
progressive10
vue10
android10
mobile10
ios10
react-native10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jonah-katz/cheetah-track
Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:124 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
jonah-katz/poker-chill
Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:28 reviews, 54 PRs, 142 pushes in 6 months
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