Peter Argany
Software Engineering Manager at Retool
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Argany is a software engineering manager in San Francisco with a decade of experience building high-performance products and developer tools across web and mobile platforms. He currently leads Retool’s performance team, driving optimizations that make complex apps load and run swiftly even on low-end devices, and hosts an internal podcast called ReTalk. His background includes substantial contributions to Facebook/React Native and LLDB tooling for iOS, where he improved input components, image loading, and debugging commands used widely in the iOS ecosystem. At Retool he cut bundle sizes, reduced page load times, slashed CI from hours to minutes, migrated the frontend to Vite, and spearheaded a “Dead Code Society” that removed over 160k LOC. He has hands-on systems experience from building a Rust-based ledger at Novi to C++/DirectX work at Microsoft, giving him rare fluency across languages and stacks. Curious and pragmatic, he blends deep engineering chops with product-minded initiatives that scale developer velocity.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (16)
debugging10
objective-c10
swift10
debug10
ios10
react-native10
lldb10
front-end-development9
ui-design9
uid9
command-line-interface8
audio6
custom-keyboard6
pasteboard6
imessage6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react-native
Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 reviews, 170 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the React Native framework, focusing on iOS-specific components and features. They implemented and refined the InputAccessoryView, including its safe area conformance and addressing related issues. The user also added a demonstration for using InputAccessoryView to build an iMessage-like sticky text input and addressed bugs related to text input behavior. Additionally, the user made updates and refactored the image loading system, and addressed issues with fast refresh, which also involved updates to the dependency stack.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
facebook/chisel
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Chisel is a collection of LLDB commands to assist debugging iOS apps.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the Chisel project by adding and refactoring commands for debugging iOS applications. Their work included adding the `FBPrintWindow` command and subsequently moving its functionality. These changes involved modifying existing commands and integrating new features, ultimately improving the tools available for inspecting the iOS application's view hierarchy. The user also integrated changes from another branch, indicating a focus on merging new features into the project.
objective-clldb-commandslldbloggingassist
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