Ray Cho
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRay Cho is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and modernizing iOS platforms, currently leading a multi-year migration at Pinterest that converted 220 Objective-C modules to Swift and established a modular architecture of 250+ modules. He combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding cross-team sequencing and mentoring engineers to resolve complex migration blockers while preserving product velocity. Previously a founding member of Pinterest’s Identity team, Ray built unified authentication frameworks and drove reliability practices that enabled sub-minute observability and full unit-test coverage. His background spans startup CTO work and civic-tech product development, where he shipped end-to-end features and testing suites that improved stability and user engagement. Based in the NYC area, he pairs rigorous system-level thinking with pragmatic delivery, and is driven by a mission to simplify users’ lives through thoughtful engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Michigan - College of Engineering
Korean, English
Github Skills (27)
asynchronous10
objective-c10
ios10
image10
thread-safety10
rendering10
pinterest10
asyncdisplaykit10
webp10
texture10
uikit10
object-cache10
carthage9
open-access8
tvos8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raycsh017/Pensieve
Apr 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
raycsh017/54Days
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 4 months
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