Matthew Knippen
President IOS Architect at Zwiffer Inc.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Knippen is a seasoned iOS architect and founder with 14 years of experience designing and shipping over 60 iPhone and iPad apps for startups through Fortune 500 clients. As President of Zwiffer and former Co-Founder/CEO of YC-backed CHARGE Running, he blends hands-on Swift engineering with product strategy, growth experiments, and team leadership that turned an idea into 1,000+ paying subscribers. He has built SDKs, mobile fraud-detection systems using ML, advanced caching for media, and led cross-platform launches including a native Android app. A practical mentor and manager, he’s guided mobile teams, coached junior engineers in Swift/Xcode, and instituted production practices like semantic versioning across SDKs. Based in Chicago, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep mobile engineering instincts—plus an unexpected background as a performing magician that sharpened his user-focused communication and attention-to-detail.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (177)
authentication10
firebase10
firebase-authentication10
push-notifications10
3d-models10
firebase-database10
firebase-messaging10
database10
openscad10
viewcontroller10
objective-c10
firebase-storage10
cocoapods10
jsqmessagesviewcontroller9
linux9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mknippen/ticket-manager
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:17 commits in 13 days
mknippen/Cubing-Timer
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
A feature-rich cubing timer app for iOS and MacOS, written in SwiftUI.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 days
feature-richtimerswiftioscubing
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