Kyle Rokita
IOS Engineering Director at Ginger Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Rokita is an iOS engineering director in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and shipping consumer mobile apps and backend services that favor simplicity and rapid iteration. He has led iOS teams at Ginger Labs, architected secure payment frameworks at JPMorgan Chase (including tokenization and anti-tamper protections), and shipped App Store products using Objective-C and Swift across UIKit, SceneKit, StoreKit and Bluetooth-LE integrations. Comfortable across the stack, he’s delivered front-end work in React/Angular and backend services in Node.js and Vapor, contributing middleware and caching fixes to the popular Vapor server-side Swift framework. With a math degree from Notre Dame and a background in actuarial analytics, he brings data-driven rigor to product decisions and testable architecture. Colleagues describe him as a velocity-minded leader who reduces complexity while maintaining security and test coverage.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at University of Notre Dame
English
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Github Skills (10)
application-framework10
server-side-swift10
app-framework10
web-framework10
http10
swift10
testing9
database-api8
databases8
database8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vapor/vapor
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kyle contributed to the Vapor framework by updating existing middleware components, including `SessionMiddleware`, `ValidationMiddleware`, `DateMiddleware`, and `AbortMiddleware`. They also created and modified unit tests, specifically focusing on middleware functionality. Additionally, they updated the `FluentCache.swift` file to match the table column names and added an 'exists' property, indicating database interaction within the caching layer.
http2frameworkswift-nioswiftserver-side
technikyle/technikyle.github.io
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:176 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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