Kevin Wolkober
Director Of Product at Yonmo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Wolkober is a product and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile products, currently shaping Hatch’s sleep hardware-software platform as Director of Product while also founding Yonmo to help hospitality operators engage guests in real time. He combines hands-on iOS engineering (from open-source work improving image caching in a Swift photo browser to leading Squarespace’s native apps) with product strategy, having shipped App Store hits featured by Apple and covered by The Wall Street Journal. Kevin has led cross-functional teams to deliver novel blockchain and NFT experiences, established engineering best practices like automated testing at scale, and moved from senior engineer to product leadership through a pattern of shipping and iterating quickly. Based in New York, he blends technical depth with a taste for real-world craft—whether classic cocktails or optimizing nightly routines—and brings a rare mix of consumer product intuition and full-stack execution.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
imagecaching10
caching10
swift10
ios10
file-cache10
urlsession9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
suzuki-0000/SKPhotoBrowser
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Simple PhotoBrowser/Viewer inspired by facebook, twitter photo browsers written by swift
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on enhancing the photo browser's functionality, specifically by implementing caching mechanisms for images fetched from URLs. Their contributions involved creating protocols for caching, refactoring existing cache implementations using `NSCache`, and integrating request/response caching. These changes included adapting `SKPhoto` to utilize the new cache system, allowing for more efficient image loading and improved performance of the photo browser.
photo-browserswifttwitterphotos
kevinwo/KWOTools
Jun 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:40 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 10 months
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