Soomin Lee
Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Lead at TheFork, a TripAdvisor company
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSoomin Lee is a Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Lead based in Paris with a decade of experience building and maintaining media playback systems for Apple platforms. As main maintainer of VLC-iOS and a contributor to VLCKit and VLCMediaLibraryKit, she blends deep Objective-C/Swift interoperability expertise with practical open-source stewardship on one of the most widely used media projects. At VideoLabs and now TheFork (TripAdvisor), she has led mobile engineering efforts, shipping production-grade playback features and bridging native libraries into Swift apps. Her contributions include adding a Swift-based VLCKit example and low-level libvlc callbacks, reflecting comfort across high-level app architecture and native media bindings. Known for navigating the “Apple world,” she pairs hands-on coding with team leadership and a knack for translating complex C/Objective-C media stacks into accessible Swift integrations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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English, French, Korean, Japanese
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Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
swift10
ios10
libvlc9
multimedia8
xcode6
accessibility6
uikit6
voiceover6
encryption6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
videolan/vlckit
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
libvlc bindings for OS X, iOS and tvOS in Objective-C, official mirror
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:97 commits, 33 PRs, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Soomin primarily contributed to the project by adding a Swift-based playback example for iOS, demonstrating the use of the VLCKit framework within a Swift environment. They developed the `PlaybackViewController`, `HomeViewController`, and `AppDelegate` files, including the necessary bridging header for integrating the Objective-C VLCKit library into the Swift project. Furthermore, the user fixed a typo in `VLCCustomDialogProvider.m` and made minor improvements to other files. They also added libvlc callbacks.
objective-cpicture-in-picturelibvlcappletvtvos
Mikanbu/VLCMediaLibraryKit
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
Personal clone of the VideoLAN VLCMediaLibraryKit repository
Contributions:12 PRs, 184 pushes, 32 branches in 5 years 3 months
videolanvideo
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