Tom Lai
Software Engineer II at Disney Streaming
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Lai is a versatile iOS-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile features for top-tier companies including Amazon and Disney Streaming. He has shipped production-facing work across apps like Amazon, Alexa, Audible and Nike Trial Zone, specializing in Swift, SwiftUI and robust feature integration such as in-app purchases, multi-account linking, and playback control. Tom has repeatedly bridged product, design, and analytics—creating in-house cocoapods, New Relic dashboards, and Splunk alerts—to improve user experience and operational visibility. Comfortable across frontend and backend concerns, he has a track record of finding critical issues early in releases and simplifying complex flows with MVVM and flow controllers. Based in Seattle, he pairs a University of Washington CS degree with hands-on retail and airline app experience that demonstrates a knack for shipping polished, mission-critical mobile software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Software Engineering at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Everett Community CollegeiOS Development, iOS Development at Udacity
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Github Skills (70)
apple-tv10
iphone-app10
swiftui10
tvos10
iphone10
watchos10
ipad10
apple-watch9
swift9
react-native9
ios9
objective-c9
flutter9
widgetkit9
ads8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tomtclai/SiteSee
Mar 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 39 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years
discoverneighborhoods
tomtclai/learning
May 2015 - Nov 2022
attempt at learning new things
Contributions:760 commits, 6 PRs, 511 pushes in 7 years 7 months
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