Paul Von Schrottky
Senior IOS Engineer at ParentSquare
Paraguay
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Top SchoolPaul Von Schrottky is a Senior iOS Engineer and team lead with 11 years of experience building polished mobile experiences, currently working remotely from Paraguay. He has shipped major features for notable apps including Day One (iPhone, iPad, macOS) and the WordPress mobile apps, where he contributed to the rich text editor and revenue-generating features under the Jetpack brand. Paul blends hands-on Swift/Objective-C coding with release management, CI/CD improvements, accessibility work, and SwiftUI component development, and he has a track record of shipping complex iPad UIs such as a 3-column experience and SwiftUI journaling components. Before Automattic he led mobile teams in the financial sector, delivering multiple top-ranked banking apps with security-focused features like certificate pinning and biometric auth. An open-source contributor across high-profile WordPress repos (WordPress-iOS, Gutenberg) and fluent in cross-platform integration via React Native bridges, he pairs product-minded engineering with strong operational rigor. He holds a Bachelor of Electronic and Computer Engineering from Griffith University and began his career writing embedded firmware, reflecting a pragmatic breadth from low-level systems to consumer apps.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Electronic and Computer Engineering at Griffith University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
wordpress10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
java10
human-interface10
javas10
android-app10
android10
swift10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:690 reviews, 367 commits, 288 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the development of the WordPress iOS application, focusing on improving the user experience and functionality of the Aztec (classic) editor. They added support for loading autosave content into the editor and implemented logic for handling autosaved posts, including a dialog for users to choose between the current and autosaved versions. The user also addressed several bugs related to displaying a status label for autosaved posts, the deprecation notice, and improved the user experience.
cocoapodsobjective-cwordpressswiftios
WordPress/gutenberg
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:217 reviews, 105 commits, 97 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the Gutenberg editor's mobile (iOS) experience within the WordPress ecosystem. Their contributions involved enabling features like the verse block and fixing rendering issues specific to Xcode 12. They also worked on improving the user interface by adding titles to media selection sheets and fixing display issues in dark mode. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to block functionality on mobile by updating and maintaining code.
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