Kelvin Lau
Senior Mobile Engineer II at raywenderlich.com
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKelvin Lau is a Senior Mobile Engineer II at Instacart with 11 years of hands-on experience building iOS apps for top brands including Nike and Disney. He combines product-focused engineering with a strong educational streak as a published author and resident author at raywenderlich.com, where he produces tutorials that reach thousands of developers. An award-winning developer recognized in Canada's Developer 30 under 30, Kelvin has led and grown open-source projects dramatically—helping a Swift algorithms repo scale from 4k to over 28k stars. His work spans deep algorithm and data-structure implementations in Swift as well as production mobile architecture and mentorship roles. Based in Vancouver, he brings a blend of agency and startup experience, early adoption of Swift, and a knack for turning complex engineering problems into accessible learning resources. Colleagues rely on him for both high-quality shipping code and clear technical communication.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Spring Startup SchoolAssociates of Physics, Associates of Physics at Langara College
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
6,633reputation
311kreached
107answers
117questions
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Github Skills (16)
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
data-structure10
facebook10
ios9
user-interface9
objective-c6
xcode6
spritekit6
parse-platform6
uitableview6
iphone-x6
uicollectionview6
scaling6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/swift-algorithm-club
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 535 commits, 430 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Kelvin's primary contributions involved implementing and modifying algorithms and data structures in Swift. They added code for MergeSort, both as a playground file and a standalone Swift file. Furthermore, the user removed a merge conflict, indicating involvement in code integration and version control within the project. Their work focuses on the implementation of data structures and algorithms, such as Red-Black Trees.
explanationsdata-structuresswiftalgorithms-and-data-structures
kodecocodes/DadJokes
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
A way to improve the programmer's day.
Contributions:23 commits, 14 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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