Summary
Kobe Dai is a mobile developer with 11 years of experience, currently building developer-facing mobile tooling and architecture at Shopify’s Retail Foundations team. He brings deep hands-on expertise across React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile, TypeScript, Apollo/GraphQL and mobile CI/performance, having progressed from early-stage iOS work to leading platform-level integrations. Kobe has a strong track record shipping apps from scratch—from growing Xiaohongshu’s iOS user base to millions, to single-handedly delivering ZOZO’s China app—and scaling teams and processes as an iOS architect and manager. He pairs low-level mobile engineering (AVFoundation, SDKs, declarative UI frameworks) with a developer-first mindset, focusing on e2e testing and tooling that accelerates other engineers. Based in Ottawa, he also holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Science, reflecting a balance of academic rigor and product-driven delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.35, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.35 at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, A, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, A at University of Ottawa