Rob Norback
CEO at Mighty Fine Apps LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRob Norback is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 11 years of experience building mobile-first teams and shipping impactful apps from the San Francisco Bay Area. As CEO of Mighty Fine Apps he built Live Transcribe for iOS using speech recognition and custom wake words to improve accessibility for d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing users, earning deeply personal user feedback. Previously he led mobile engineering at Chime and directed mobile at Steady, where he introduced React Native to accelerate development and doubled team throughput while cutting costs. He moves between hands-on engineering and strategic product leadership, rewriting codebases, designing MVVM architectures, and integrating real‑time APIs. A former physics teacher turned entrepreneur, he blends pedagogy and technical discipline to solve hard UX and performance problems. His work shows a pattern of using emerging technologies to deliver measurable business outcomes and memorable customer impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education Secondary Education and Teaching, Master of Education Secondary Education and Teaching at Arizona State UniversityBachelor’s Degree Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology at Cornell University
English
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Github Skills (71)
swiftui10
xcode-plugin10
cross-platform10
android10
pie-chart10
xcodebuild10
ios10
react-native10
react10
animation9
midi9
audio9
music9
swift9
code-injection9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Rnorback/OpenBox
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:77 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Rnorback/HearingHelper
Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:1 release, 14 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 6 months
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