Paul Tiarks
Software Engineer at Salesforce
Tinley Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorPaul Tiarks is a seasoned iOS software engineer with 15 years of professional experience and over a decade focused on Objective-C and Swift. He has built mobile features and platform-level improvements at major companies including Salesforce, Walmart, and Orbitz, and has been at Salesforce since 2016 driving mobile engineering efforts. His open-source contributions to the widely used Salesforce Mobile SDK show a focus on robust session management and WKWebView process pooling to improve hybrid app performance. Based in Tinley Park, Illinois, he blends enterprise-scale product delivery with low-level iOS platform expertise. Colleagues know him for improving authentication flows and web view sharing—small architectural changes that noticeably boost reliability in complex mobile ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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top-5%
Github Skills (17)
objective-c10
wkwebview10
ios10
user-authentication10
authentication10
sdk10
swift10
salesforce10
oauth9
nsstring6
cocoa-touch6
coredata6
uitableview6
iphone6
grand-central-dispatch6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-iOS
Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
iOS SDK for Salesforce
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS. Their contributions primarily involved modifying the authentication and authorization flows by posting notifications upon completion and refresh of OAuth sessions. Additionally, the user exposed a settable instance of `WKProcessPool` within the `SalesforceSDKManager` class and ensured its utilization in `WKWebView` instances, facilitating web view sharing for the Salesforce Hybrid SDK. These modifications aimed at improving session management and web view performance within the SDK.
ios-sdksdksalesforcesdk-for-iosios
walmartlabs-samsclub/ios-shared
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:9 PRs, 5 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
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