Mines Chan
Senior Software Engineer at Skyscanner
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMines Chan is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 12 years of hands-on experience shipping mobile and web products across startups and scale-ups. He has led teams and technical delivery at companies like Lalamove and DigiSalad, and currently contributes to engineering at Skyscanner, blending hands-on iOS/Android development with people and process leadership. Mines is comfortable across the stack—mobile (Swift/Kotlin/Objective-C), backend APIs, and CI/CD—and has built and scaled user-facing apps used by millions across 15+ cities. He co-founded a consumer app and served as CTO/Technical Lead, giving him product-minded engineering and P&L awareness rarely seen in individual contributors. An active open-source contributor, he authored MZTimerLabel, an iOS timer/stopwatch library that reflects his attention to useful, reusable UI components. Colleagues know him for pragmatic architecture, rigorous testing practices, and a preference for code-driven layouts over storyboards.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (15)
timers10
timed10
uid10
timer10
objective-c10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
uilabel9
memory-management6
memory-leaks6
php6
iphone6
database6
coregraphics6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mineschan/MZTimerLabel
Oct 2013 - Nov 2017
A handy class for iOS to use UILabel as a countdown timer or stopwatch just like in Apple Clock App.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 releases, 89 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mines primarily contributed to the development of an iOS library, MZTimerLabel, designed to function as a countdown timer or stopwatch, similar to the Apple Clock app. The commits demonstrate the creation of UI elements and core logic for displaying time formats and implementing features like start, pause, reset, and the handling of countdown completion events. The user also improved the library's internal logic and added delegate methods.
clockuilabelclock-apptimerswift
mineschan/LocoMobileExport
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
An exporter script for Localise.biz projects for iOS and Android projects
Contributions:8 releases, 18 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
exporterandroidiosbizandroid-projects
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