Josh Svatek
Technical Engineering Manager at Elevate Labs
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Svatek is a technical engineering manager and veteran iOS developer with 11 years of professional experience building consumer-focused apps and leading teams at Elevate Labs. He progressed from senior iOS engineer to technical lead and now manages engineering efforts, blending hands-on Swift expertise with product-minded decision making informed by prior product management roles. His atypical background—PhD coursework in economics and a BA in English literature and creative writing—gives him a data-driven yet user-centered approach to product design and team communication. Josh has led engineering and founding efforts at small studios and education tech companies, shipping health and learning applications for clients including Pearson and The Ottawa Hospital System. Based in Ottawa, he’s known for crafting pleasing, useful interfaces while keeping an eye on metrics and long-term product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Dissertation incomplete) Economics, PhD (Dissertation incomplete) Economics at Western UniversityBA English Literature + Creative Writing, BA English Literature + Creative Writing at Concordia University
Github Skills (16)
facebook7
swift6
ios5
moai5
objective-c5
cocoapods4
package-manager3
macos3
dependency-manager3
cocoa3
sdk3
metal1
opengl1
opengl-es1
api1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
udacity/ios-short-account-kit
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Example code for a lesson on Facebook's AccountKit.
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 month
facebook
jsvatek/Down
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Blazing fast Markdown / CommonMark rendering in Swift, built upon cmark.
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
blazingcommonmarkcmarkrenderingswift
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