Laura Savino is a senior iOS developer with 13 years of experience, currently shaping Photoshop Mobile at Adobe and known for clear, pragmatic engineering across native apps and web-bridge integrations. She combines deep Swift and tooling expertise with hands-on work—porting Khan Academy exercises to iOS, solving tricky MathJax/auth issues, and adding localized backend endpoints—to make complex features feel native and reliable. An experienced international tech speaker and trainer, she focuses talks on Apple’s development toolchain and the human side of building software in teams. Her background in localization, applied linguistics, and cross-cultural work informs a thoughtful approach to UX and global-scale engineering.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., French; Religious Studies; Japanese minor; honors in Applied Linguistics, B.A., French; Religious Studies; Japanese minor; honors in Applied Linguistics at Penn State University
A (deprecated) framework for building exercises to work with Khan Academy.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Laura primarily contributed to improving the Khan Academy exercises framework for the iOS platform. Their work involved addressing issues with authentication for the iOS web view, ensuring API requests from the iOS app were correctly routed, and resolving errors related to MathJax rendering. The user also implemented the necessary logic to handle the absence of cookies, enabling the use of OAuth for API requests. These changes significantly improved the functionality and usability of the exercises within the iOS environment.
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Laura Savino - Senior IOS Developer - Photoshop Mobile at Adobe