Ke Zheng-Xiang
Founder at Hikingbook
Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Summary
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RockstarKe Zheng-Xiang is a founder and hands-on iOS engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Taipei, who single-handedly built Hikingbook’s iOS app, website, backend, and DevOps. He blends product intuition with full-stack mobile expertise, shipping polished UI components and reliable PDF and document features for real users. His open-source contributions include refined timeline UI cells and enhancements to the popular TPPDF library—adding image handling, pagination, and layout controls that improve multi-page exports. Comfortable moving between design, implementation, and operations, he thrives on end-to-end ownership in startup contexts. An understated detail: he often turns small UI building blocks into reusable components that scale across app features.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
pdf-generation10
uiimage10
pdf10
swift10
uikit10
generator10
uitableview10
ios10
ui-design10
builders10
builder-io10
builder-pattern10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kf99916/TimelineTableViewCell
Oct 2016 - Dec 2020
Simple timeline view implemented by UITableViewCell
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:75 commits, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ke primarily contributed to the development of a `UITableViewCell` designed for displaying timeline events. Their work focused on building the UI components, including drawing timeline lines, points, and bubbles, and incorporating labels and images. The user refactored the implementation to use XIB files and added functionalities like image display and stack view support. They made the demo more complex with different styles and functionality.
timelinetimeline-viewswiftiosuitableviewcell
techprimate/TPPDF
Nov 2016 - Apr 2018
TPPDF is a simple-to-use PDF builder for iOS and macOS written in Swift
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:48 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ke primarily focused on building and extending the TPPDF library for iOS. They implemented features for adding images, including image captions and options for controlling image size and layout. The user also improved the PDF generation process by adding pagination, allowing for multi-page documents, and refined the image handling with options like image quality compression and support for images in the header and footer. They further enhanced the library's functionality by adding the ability to create new pages and add images within a row.
cocoapodspdfbuildersimple-to-useswift
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