Summary
Mike Sanderson is an experienced iOS engineer based in New York with over a decade building production apps in Swift, Objective-C and C#, specializing in app architecture, embedded hardware integration, and mobile security. He has led teams and projects at companies like Work & Co, Tendigi and Wickr, shipping features from secure messaging UIs to Apple Wallet integrations for major retailers. A pragmatic security researcher and presenter, he’s found real-world vulnerabilities with responsible disclosure and has given multiple technical talks on defensive coding and UIKit evolution. His background includes founding an app studio, running CI pipelines and Fastlane automation, and an unexpected career chapter as a managing editor and English teacher in Guangdong, which sharpened his communication and cross-cultural product instincts.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Miami Palmetto Senior High
B.A. Anthropology/History, B.A. Anthropology/History at New College of Florida
English, Chinese