Mike Simons
Staff IOS Engineer II at Etsy
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Simons is a Staff iOS engineer with 13 years of experience building performant, production-grade mobile apps and SDKs, currently leading iOS efforts at Etsy from East Lansing. He has a strong history of shipping consumer-focused apps—spearheading Food52’s (Not)Recipes and delivering features that earned Apple editorial recognition—while also architecting reusable frameworks and cloud-backed SDKs at TechSmith. Deep familiarity with image handling and memory management is evidenced by contributions to the widely used PINRemoteImage project, where he improved EXIF orientation handling and optimized decoding and non-ARC memory paths. A pragmatic technical leader and mentor, Mike combines hands-on Objective-C/Swift craft with a modular design mindset that accelerates teams and enables fast feature delivery.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Michigan State University
Github Skills (6)
uiimage10
objective-c10
ios10
exif10
image-processing10
webp9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/PINRemoteImage
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
A thread safe, performant, feature rich image fetcher
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Mike focused on improving image handling within the iOS application. They addressed image orientation issues by converting EXIF data to `UIImageOrientation`. They implemented decoding logic for images, handling various image formats. Further, they refactored and optimized image processing methods and memory management, specifically addressing non-ARC memory issues.
thread-safetyiosobjective-cimagewebp
waltflanagan/WFTimer
Aug 2012 - Jan 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
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