Rizwan Sattar
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRizwan Sattar is a Senior Software Engineer in San Diego with 15 years of experience building polished, user-focused iOS and tvOS applications. He combines deep native expertise in Swift and Objective-C with practical experience across Python, JavaScript and Java, and has shipped SDKs and frameworks for companies from startups to Apple and Google. At Google he contributed to Firebase’s iOS Messaging module and continues to contribute to open-source UI components like CLTokenInputView, demonstrating attention to reliability, logging, and API clarity. Rizwan’s background spans consumer products, SDK development, and platform integrations—he’s built remote bundle delivery systems, multi-variant app architectures, and even playful UX features like proximity-based interactions—showing an engineer who values both craftsmanship and delightful user experience.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The George Washington University
English, Bengali, hindi & urdu
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Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
ios10
messaging10
ui-design10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
uid10
sdk10
front-end-development10
swift10
uikit10
firebase10
error-handling9
firebase-cloud-messaging9
debug8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rsattar/CLTokenInputView
Feb 2014 - Sep 2016
A replica of iOS's native contact bubbles UI
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:100 commits, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rizwan primarily contributed to the development of an iOS token input view, a UI component. Their work started with the initial setup of the basic classes and a test view controller. They implemented core features, including detecting backspace key presses for token selection. They also added support for selecting tokens, managing text field behavior, and customizing its appearance and behavior.
replicaios11bubblesswiftios
firebase/firebase-ios-sdk
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Firebase SDK for Apple App Development
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:18 commits, 34 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rizwan primarily contributed to the Firebase iOS SDK, focusing on the Messaging module. They implemented features related to direct channel messaging, added error logging, and cleaned up logging and configuration code within the Messaging component. Furthermore, the user addressed formatting inconsistencies in the public headers and added comments to clarify functionality. They also resolved issues related to FCM token handling and topic subscriptions.
firebase-databasefirebase-functionsdatabase-as-a-serviceremote-configios
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