Jurgis K
Partner at E-protect
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
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Top SchoolJurgis K is a seasoned mobile app designer and developer with 12+ years building native iOS and Android experiences and consulting on product design and usability. As Partner at E-protect and co-founder of Happy Moments, he has combined hands-on engineering with user-centered design to ship consumer apps like landlordy.app and drinkcontrol.app. He contributes to open-source iOS tooling—improving ActionSheetPicker to enhance accessibility and customization—showing attention to polish and developer ergonomics. His background spans product, marketing and technical leadership roles since the 1990s, giving him rare fluency in business-facing strategy and low-level implementation. Based in Riga, Latvia, he blends entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic approach to UX-driven mobile development. Colleagues value him for turning usability insights into robust, maintainable native apps.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Latvijas Universitate
Russian, English, Latvian
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Github Skills (16)
django-models10
objective-c10
django-admin10
ios10
google-analytics9
python9
django9
accessibility9
swift8
ui-design7
ui-automation6
nsdate6
automated-tests6
ios-automation6
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skywinder/ActionSheetPicker-3.0
Apr 2017 - Jul 2019
Quickly reproduce the dropdown UIPickerView / ActionSheet functionality on iOS.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jurgis primarily focused on enhancing the `actionsheetpicker-3.0` iOS library, which provides ActionSheet and UIPickerView functionalities. Their contributions included allowing the use of attributed strings for picker rows, fixing method names, and correcting documentation warnings. Further improvements involved setting accessibility traits for the picker title and resolving Xcode-related block argument warnings, ensuring overall code quality and user experience. The user also added the functionality to customize the text color of the date picker.
actionsheetreproduceswiftiospicker-component
xjki/VENCalculatorInputView
Mar 2015 - Jul 2023
Contributions:21 pushes in 8 years 5 months
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