Naftali Beder
Principal Mobile Engineer at TruckMap
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolNaftali Beder is a Principal Mobile Engineer based in the Greater Chicago Area with nine years of professional experience building production-grade mobile apps and maps-focused features. At TruckMap he progressed from Senior Front-End Engineer to Principal Mobile Engineer, leading mobile architecture and shipping complex features for logistics and mapping products. He contributes to open-source mapping tooling—most notably enhancing camera animation and padding controls in the rnmapbox/maps React Native module—demonstrating cross-platform iOS/Android/JS expertise. His background in visual art and game design (including a top-50 App Store title and illustration work for major publications) gives him a strong sense for UX, interaction design, and polished visuals rarely found in pure engineering roles. Versatile and product-minded, he pairs hands-on coding with design sensitivity to deliver intuitive, performant mobile experiences.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Art, Visual Art at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBFA, Illustration, BFA, Illustration at Rhode Island School of Design
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Github Skills (14)
map-box10
ios10
react-native10
mapbox-gl10
javascript9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
spritekit6
storyboard6
xcode6
uitableview6
swift6
3d-touch6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rnmapbox/maps
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
A Mapbox react native module for creating custom maps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:81 reviews, 253 commits, 101 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Naftali primarily contributed to the `rnmapbox/maps` repository by implementing and enhancing features related to map camera control and animation. This included adding a new animation mode, "linearTo", to the map camera component and integrating it across iOS, Android, and JavaScript interfaces. Furthermore, the user worked on implementing padding options for the camera, allowing for greater control over the map's visible area, and integrated the options within examples and tests. The user also improved the example code by simplifying the expansion and refactoring features.
reactreact-native-modulemaplibremapboxreact-native
naftalibeder/figma-frame-exporter
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:105 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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