Paul Zabelin
Staff Software Engineer at Artium
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Zabelin is a Staff Software Engineer and veteran iOS leader based in San Francisco with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years building software, including delivery of 70+ App Store apps and a dozen personal titles. He excels at test-driven development, continuous integration/deployment, and team building—having coached TDD at Google and Pivotal and hired and grown mobile teams that sustained rapid delivery. A consistent open-source contributor, Paul has improved Kiwi BDD for iOS with smarter reporting, notification matchers and async verifiers, reflecting his blend of practical tooling and QA automation skills. His background spans startups and enterprise product teams (DoorDash, Indiegogo, Omada, Sparta) where he led iOS rebuilds, test automation, and full-suite integration testing. Trained as a physicist at MIPT, he brings a methodical, engineering-first mindset to product engineering and developer coaching.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Quantum Electronics, BS, Quantum Electronics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
English, Russian
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Github Skills (12)
objective-c10
ios10
xctest10
testing10
hamcrest9
xcode6
code-signing6
cordova-ios6
fourcc6
calayer6
catransform3d6
cordova6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kiwi-bdd/Kiwi
Mar 2012 - Jan 2020
Simple BDD for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS) & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Mobile Developer (iOS) & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul focused on enhancing the Kiwi BDD framework for iOS. They improved the reporting of example descriptions within Xcode, adding features to display warnings for pending examples. The user also implemented a notification matcher to test posted notifications, along with asynchronous verifier support. Further contributions included refactoring test code, fixing bugs related to Hamcrest matchers, and adding more features to the notification matcher to improve matching capabilities.
objective-ctestingbddswiftios
paulz/SwiftUI-snapshot-testing
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Practical SwiftUI Snapshot Testing
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 123 commits in 1 month
modularitytestingpracticalswiftios
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