Justine Kay
Senior Software Engineer, IOS at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustine Kay is a Senior iOS Engineer with 11 years of experience blending product-minded engineering, visual design, and UX to build polished mobile experiences at The New York Times and other media and consumer apps. She excels in Swift and Objective-C, shipping features across NYT News and Audio teams while advocating for readable, testable, and maintainable code. With roots in fine arts and a background in photography and design, she brings a strong visual sensibility and an exceptional eye for detail to interface and interaction problems. Her career began through a selective Pursuit fellowship and includes impact-driven projects like an app to document civil-rights incidents and health-focused tools for new mothers. Justine is a maker who prioritizes continuous learning and craftsmanship, often bridging product, design, and engineering to connect people to meaningful ideas and services. Based in New York, she combines creative instincts with production-scale iOS engineering to deliver empathetic, elegant apps.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Pursuit Fellowship iOS Development, Pursuit Fellowship iOS Development at PursuitBachelor’s Degree Fine and Studio Arts Photography and Digital Imaging, Bachelor’s Degree Fine and Studio Arts Photography and Digital Imaging at Ringling College of Art and DesignFine and Studio Arts, Fine and Studio Arts at Institute for American Universities - Center for Art and Culture (CAC), Aix-En-Provence, France
Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
server-side8
server8
vapor7
server-side-swift7
swift7
http6
http-server6
video-upload6
swift-nio5
storage4
cloud-storage4
ios3
web-framework3
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JustineKay/BMLPVideoArchiver
Dec 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 4 months
personal-cloudsimultaneouslypersonal-cloud-storagecloud-storagevideo
JustineKay/SeekNYC
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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