Saurabh Rane is a Mumbai-based software engineer with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience blending software development, content strategy, and digital marketing. He contributes to notable open-source iOS projects—maintaining and expanding Font Awesome/Swift icon libraries—and has shipped UI-focused features across many UIKit components. With postgraduate training in sociology and a background in advertising, he brings a rare human-centered perspective to product and content work, translating cultural insight into clearer UX, copy, and campaign strategy. His career spans hands-on coding at GitHub/Amzn-adjacent projects and senior content roles driving SEO, social, and retail campaigns, including contributions to fashion launch work showcased at Lakmé Fashion Week. Colleagues value his ability to move fluidly between technical implementation and narrative design, making him effective across cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA Sociology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Sociology at Institute of Distance and Open Learning - University of Mumbai
Master of Arts (Honours) Sociology, Master of Arts (Honours) Sociology at University of Mumbai
Higher Secondary Certificate Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Higher Secondary Certificate Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Ramnivas Ruia Junior College
Bachelor of Mass Media Advertising, Bachelor of Mass Media Advertising at Ramnarain Ruia College - Mumbai
Contributions:18 releases, 91 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily contributed to the SwiftIcons library by implementing and updating various UI components. This included adding support for setting icons in multiple UI elements like `UIImageView`, `UILabel`, `UIButton`, `UISegmentedControl`, `UITabBarItem`, `UISlider`, `UIBarButtonItem`, `UIStepper`, `UITextField`, and `UIViewController`. The commits also involve updating the documentation and examples. The user also updated the deployment process for GitHub pages.
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Saurabh primarily contributes to the iOS library for Font Awesome icons, focusing on enhancing its features and improving usability. Their work includes supporting new Font Awesome versions, implementing functionality to customize the icons, and adding support for stacked images. They also updated the example app, demonstrating a thorough understanding of integrating the library within an iOS environment. Additionally, they added support for UITextField.
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