Steven Thompson
Senior IOS Engineer at Bird
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Thompson is a Senior iOS Engineer in Ottawa with 11 years building polished mobile experiences across native Swift/Objective-C and React Native/TypeScript. He’s shipped consumer and merchant-facing features at scale at Shopify and now Bird, influencing API and backend design while championing mobile-first thinking. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, Steven pairs strong independent delivery—having shipped multiple App Store apps and internal showcases—with mentoring, pair programming, and cross-discipline collaboration. His background includes leading product initiatives that increased merchant value (Shop Pay instalments, Shop Cash) and pioneering Swift adoption and modern architectures like MVVM and reactive patterns. Trained in philosophy, he brings a thoughtful, user-focused approach to technical tradeoffs and product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy, Philosophy at McMaster UniversityBell High School
French, English
Github Skills (42)
ios10
circle10
swift10
macos10
objective-c9
travis9
uicollectionview9
jenkins9
carthage8
cell8
cocoapods8
uitableview8
xcode8
code-review8
travis-ci8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
airG/iOS-airImageCache
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:37 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
airG/iOS-airSegmentedControl
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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