Michael Liberatore
Staff IOS Engineer at Lickability
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Liberatore is a Staff iOS Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building polished, user-focused mobile apps and leading cross-platform efforts. He has driven major iOS and Mac rewrites and redesigns at Turning Technologies, shipped consumer-facing features at The New York Times, and has been a core engineer at Lickability since 2016. Michael combines hands-on UI engineering—refactoring components, fixing nuanced UX bugs, and extending presentation logic—with team leadership, code review, and product-aligned delivery. He contributes to open-source tooling for better feedback in mobile apps, improving maintainability and UX in projects like PinpointKit. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, testable implementations, he balances deep platform knowledge with an eye for delightful interactions. Outside core product work, his early research projects show a longstanding interest in algorithmic thinking and accessible audio interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at The College of Wooster
Github Skills (5)
uid10
swift10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Lickability/PinpointKit
May 2016 - Jun 2021
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Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 12 reviews, 376 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the iOS application's user interface and functionality by modifying core components. They addressed bug fixes related to UI elements and implemented changes to improve the user experience, like removing redundant buttons and modifying the presentation of information in the UI. They also refactored code for improved maintainability and added new features by extending existing UI components.
cocoapodsswiftcarthagefeedbackios
Lickability/swift-best-practices
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
A repository that contains information related to Lickability's best practices.
Contributions:13 reviews, 73 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 5 months
swift-package-managerarchitectureswiftmodularity
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