Kai Engelhardt
IOS Engineering Manager & IOS Chapter Lead at Linearity GmbH
Friedrichsdorf, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolKai Engelhardt is an experienced iOS engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on mobile development dating back to iPhone OS 3, comfortable shipping in both Objective-C and Swift and mentoring teams through architectural rewrites. As iOS Engineering Manager and Chapter Lead at Linearity, he blends feature development with cross-functional leadership, driving code quality, design collaboration, and adoption of Apple’s newest technologies like Liquid Glass and Foundation Models. His background includes senior technical and executive roles—VP of Software Engineering and Head of UX Engineering—plus internships at Apple where he explored tvOS internals, interaction models, and system frameworks. Kai has led major product replatforms such as Vectornator 2.0, building custom UI controls, CI automation, and polished UX integrations, showing a rare mix of product-focused craftsmanship and operational rigor. Based in Friedrichsdorf, Germany, he brings historical depth in the iOS ecosystem that helps teams avoid modern pitfalls newcomers often miss.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
German, English, Polish, Spanish
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Github Skills (22)
feed9
uitableview9
php8
rss8
rss-reader8
aggregator7
eclipse-plugin7
code-generator7
swift6
watchos6
ios-simulator6
xcode6
tvos6
websub6
ipodtouch6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kaiengelhardt/KEAdaptivityKit
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
kaiengelhardt/KEFoundation
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:12 releases, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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