Victor Fernández is an experienced iOS engineer and founder with 12 years building polished, design-forward mobile experiences and leading cross-functional teams from San Diego. As Co-Founder and CEO of Panels (and previously its lead developer), he has tackled mathematically and graphically challenging apps like a sketching tool called Thoughts and led creation of reusable UI frameworks at Jobandtalent. His open-source contributions to UI libraries—such as AnimatedTextInput and VBFPopFlatButton—show deep expertise in UIKit, animations and improving developer ergonomics through tests and refactors. Victor pairs hands-on implementation skills with engineering leadership (Engineering Manager at Universe) and a mechanical engineering master’s background that surfaces in a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to product design. He also teaches intensive iOS bootcamps, a signal of strong communication skills and a commitment to mentoring the next generation of mobile developers.
Contributions:49 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the UI and functionality of a flat button library. Their commits show improvements to the visual appearance, and a new feature to set the initial state without animation was implemented. They also fixed minor issues such as misplacement of elements, and updated dependencies. These contributions demonstrate expertise in button development and user interface design within the context of the POP animation library.
Animated UITextField and UITextView replacement for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 99 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the iOS-specific code within the repository. Their contributions include fixing image asset issues, refactoring UI components by updating the UI style and layout, Swift 3 compatibility, and adding content inset support. They also implemented UI tests, and improved the first responder behavior in the AnimatedTextInput components.
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