Nelson Tai
Staff IOS Engineer at KKCompany
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolNelson Tai is a Staff iOS Engineer with 13+ years of hands-on experience building and modernizing mobile products across startups and large enterprises, currently leading architecture and delivery for the KKBOX iOS app. He combines deep technical craftsmanship—dating back to iOS 4—with strong leadership in team development, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination to drive measurable improvements like crash-free rates and build-time reductions. His work spans architecture refactors, Swift migrations, modularization, and developer tooling (including SwiftSyntax-based CLIs), and he has led migrations from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager and third-party SDK replacements to native frameworks. A prolific open-source contributor, his UI-focused CHTCollectionViewWaterfallLayout has real-world adoption and his repos have garnered thousands of stars. He balances pragmatic business priorities with engineering rigor, evidenced by automated Figma-to-Swift pipelines and reproducible static analysis runbooks. Fluent in Mandarin and proficient in English, he blends strong CS foundations with practical delivery instincts across global teams.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Yuan-Ze UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at National Chiao Tung University
English, Chinese, Mandarin
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Github Skills (6)
uicollectionview10
ui-design10
objective-c9
swift7
xcode6
delegates6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chiahsien/CHTCollectionViewWaterfallLayout
Nov 2012 - Dec 2021
The waterfall (i.e., Pinterest-like) layout for UICollectionView.
Role in this project:
UI Designer & Front-end Developer
UI Designer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 166 commits, 39 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nelson primarily focused on implementing and refining the UI for a `UICollectionView` waterfall layout. They added demo codes, which included view controller and cell implementations. Their contributions involved creating and modifying UI elements, updating the layout, and fixing issues related to the cell's frame, resulting in a more polished user experience. The user also addressed issues of blurry text within the cells by ensuring the frame values of the cells were integers.
uicollectionviewpinterestuicollectionviewlayoutwaterfall-layout
chiahsien/MarkViewer
May 2019 - Aug 2019
A document based iOS app for viewing markdown files.
Contributions:46 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 3 months
iosmarkdownmarkdown-viewerswift
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