Simon Smiley-andrews
Chapter Lead at ANZ
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Smiley-andrews is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on iOS and mobile development experience who now leads chapters and large engineering practices across Australia. He has progressed from building and architecting greenfield iOS apps and open-source chat frameworks to managing teams of up to ~270 engineers while driving growth and revenue in enterprise settings. Known for blending technical depth—shipping accessibility-focused mobile products and integrating complex auth flows like Facebook/Google—with people-first leadership and bid-side technical sales support. Based in Greater Melbourne, he pairs a mathematics degree from the University of Warwick with a track record of refactoring legacy code and improving UX in widely used mobile messenger projects.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at University of Warwick
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
objective-c10
firebase-authentication10
ios10
uitableview10
swift10
messenger9
twitter9
instant-messaging9
sdk9
xcode9
firebase9
ui-design8
xmpp7
cocoa-touch6
tweet6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chat-sdk/chat-sdk-ios
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Chat SDK iOS - Open Source Mobile Messenger
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:51 commits, 7 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the iOS mobile messenger application, Chat SDK iOS. Their work focused on enhancing user experience, adding new features, and resolving bugs related to user authentication and login. They integrated Facebook and Google login functionality, implemented default profile pictures, and addressed issues related to message display and notifications, showcasing a focus on UI/UX improvements and core application features. The user also refactored code by removing subpods.
xmppxmpp-clientiosmessengerobjective-c
simonsmiley64/touristHelper
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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