Thomas Désert
Engineering Manager & IOS Engineer - Door To Door at BlaBlaCar
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolThomas Désert is an engineering manager and senior iOS engineer with 10+ years building mobile products across startups and scale-ups, currently leading Door to Door at BlaBlaCar. He blends hands‑on iOS architecture and implementation—having built Zen by BlaBlaCar from scratch—with people leadership, scaling teams and processes to improve predictability and time-to-market. Comfortable from low-level C/Unix to web stacks, he’s known for pragmatic problem-solving and a focus on UX, maintainable code and modular app architectures. At BlaBlaCar he has driven cross-platform booking squads and an iOS chapter, recruiting and growing teams while streamlining stakeholder interactions in a complex org. He repeatedly ships fast by leveraging existing ecosystems and iterative discovery to reach product–market fit. Based in Paris, he pairs a systems mindset with curiosity for new technologies and continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechGraduate Computers, Graduate Computers at Dalian Polytechnic UniversityBachelor's degree Communication Technology, Bachelor's degree Communication Technology at Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
French, English
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Github Skills (34)
validations10
uitableview10
actionsheet10
forms9
swift9
ios8
form-builder8
futures7
cocoapods7
nsstring6
carthage6
async-await6
uitoolbar6
cocoa-touch6
accelerometer6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yanisvieilly/project-ld31
Aug 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
tdesert/capture_ios_sim
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
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