Michael Valentiner
Software Engineer at Heliotropix, LLC
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Valentiner is a seasoned software engineer and senior iOS developer with a 30+ year pedigree in software product development and a deep specialty in Swift, Objective-C, and Xcode. He combines high-level architectural thinking with meticulous low-level coding, having shipped consumer apps like Photos Near and Interestingness! and contributed to best-of-breed teams behind Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. A long-time Mac developer since 1988 and iOS practitioner since 2009, he champions modern practices—TDD, CI, Agile/Scrum, and user-centered design—to deliver polished, maintainable products. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota with real-world product instincts and a history of mentoring and shaping engineering processes. Notably, he’s embraced Swift early (since 2014), signaling a forward-looking stance toward platform evolution while retaining deep legacy macOS expertise.
9 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of MinnesotaUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
swift, c++, c#, objective-c
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Github Skills (20)
podfile10
cocoa10
swift9
package-manager9
ios8
dependency-manager8
cocoapods7
macos7
carthage6
apache-flex6
objective-c6
ipad6
iphone5
drawer5
integrate4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mvalentiner/SOA-Services
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
mvalentiner/PlacesApp
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 6 branches, 1 tag in 7 months
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