Philipp Comans
Lead Software Engineer at Chime
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhilipp Comans is a product-focused lead software engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building user-centered web and mobile products. He has progressed from early-stage engineering roles to leading teams at Chime, combining front-end architecture, cross-platform mobile work, and backend systems to simplify complex problems into delightful user experiences. At a Sequoia-backed startup he helped scale a chat product to 50,000+ active users and optimized image delivery at scale, demonstrating a knack for pragmatic performance improvements. His background spans startups and enterprise consulting, with hands-on experience across Flutter/Dart, TypeScript, Firebase/Firestore, JavaScript frameworks, and cloud platforms. Philipp blends product instincts (former product manager at Scribd) with engineering leadership to align design, metrics, and delivery. He’s known for creating reusable UI libraries and onboarding distributed teams, helping organizations move faster without sacrificing quality.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
German Jordanian UniversityMaster of Science Informatics, Master of Science Informatics at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-SiegUniversity of New Brunswick
English, German
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Github Skills (59)
flutter10
ios10
mobile-development10
flutter-plugin10
windows10
app-framework10
skiasharp10
mobile-game10
cross-platform10
plugin10
desktop10
material-design10
android10
skia10
mobile10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
carnivorestudios/plugins
Aug 2017 - Nov 2020
Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
Contributions:6 PRs, 47 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 3 months
background-servicedartpluginflutter-pluginnull-safety
pcomans/ReadWithInstapaper
Jul 2013 - Sep 2022
Contributions:13 commits, 5 pushes in 9 years 3 months
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