Julien Saad
CEO at Rare Carat
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Saad is a product-driven CEO leading Rare Carat, America's top-rated diamond jeweler, after rising through roles from Head of Product to Chief Product Officer where he built the AI systems powering the platform. With 12 years of experience spanning startup founding, product and engineering scaling at Transit, and strategic client work as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey, he blends hands-on software engineering with data-driven product leadership. He founded and ran Third Bridge, demonstrating entrepreneurial grit, and has shipped mobile improvements to open-source iOS components like SVWebViewController. Julien’s background in computer software engineering and agile marketing informs a pragmatic approach to building delightful, measurable products that scale.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
French, English
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Github Skills (11)
objective-c10
uiwebview10
swift10
ios10
ui-elements9
uikit9
uinavigationcontroller6
nsuserdefaults6
uitableview6
cocoa-touch6
viewcontroller6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TransitApp/SVWebViewController
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
A drop-in inline browser for your iOS app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 days
Contributions summary:Julien primarily contributed to the iOS application's SVWebViewController, enhancing its functionality and user experience. They added the ability to customize the dismiss button style, including "done" and "cancel" options, along with the correct behavior on iPad. They also fixed a typo in the done button's tap action and enabled the customization of activities to allow for sharing the URL. Furthermore, the user exposed the `webView` property for more customization options.
ios
juliensaad/Event-Vods
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
Spoiler free iOS client for https://eventvods.com
Contributions:3 PRs, 113 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 4 months
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