Josh Heald
Mobile Wrangler at Automattic
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Heald is a Mobile Wrangler and seasoned mobile engineering leader with 12 years’ experience building and scaling iOS and Android products from startups through enterprise teams. Based in Edinburgh, he has led cross-platform teams at FanDuel to deliver state rollouts and migrations under tight deadlines while also contributing hands‑on as a principal iOS engineer. Now at Automattic, he continues to focus on mobile quality and accessibility—his open-source contributions include usability and accessibility improvements to the official WordPress iOS repo. He combines product-minded engineering, people leadership, and a background in backend and web services, and is as comfortable shipping UI improvements as he is reducing backend API load. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic under pressure, with a knack for turning operational constraints into scalable delivery practices.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Software Engineering at University of Durham, St John's College
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Github Skills (19)
accessibility10
ios10
xcode10
swift10
uiview9
interface-builder9
objective-c9
xib9
ui-design8
ux-design8
cocoapods7
ibdesignable6
uibutton6
iphone6
uistackview6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 reviews, 21 commits, 7 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on improving the accessibility and usability of the iOS WordPress application. Their contributions involved fixing navigation issues, improving date selection within the calendar, and adding accessibility features, such as announcing selected dates and adding heading traits. The user also made enhancements to the UI by updating the date picker and modifying the settings for blog reminders. These changes aimed to create a better user experience.
ioswordpressobjective-cswiftcocoapods
joshheald/WindAlert
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:53 commits in 2 months
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