Victor Pena
Engineering Manager II at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolVictor Pena is an Engineering Manager II based in Amsterdam with 14 years of experience building and leading mobile-first engineering teams at scale, most recently at Uber where he now heads Earner Payments Onboarding after leading the Unified Checkout platform. He pairs deep iOS technical roots—author of the PrettyKit UI library and longtime Swift/Objective-C practitioner—with product-focused leadership, driving unified checkout experiences and frictionless earnings access across consumer apps. Victor has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and management, from rewriting flagship TomTom apps and building UI libraries to presenting mobile architecture (RIBs) at international meetups. He combines a practical open-source mindset (PrettyKit has 1k+ stars) with recruiting and coaching experience across iOS, Android and backend disciplines, making him effective at growing cross-functional teams.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Informatique Spécialité Technologies de l'Information et Ingénierie du Logiciel, Master Informatique Spécialité Technologies de l'Information et Ingénierie du Logiciel at Université de Bretagne OccidentaleMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Universidad de A Coruña
Spanish, Galician, English, French, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
objective-c10
ui-customization10
uikit10
ios10
interface-design9
coredata6
thread-safety6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vicpenap/PrettyKit
Apr 2012 - Nov 2012
PrettyKit for iOS is a small set of new widgets and UIKit subclasses that gives you a deeper UIKit customization. You will be able to change their background color, add gradients, shadows, etc.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:55 commits, 3 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the iOS application's UI and customization features. They focused on modifying and extending UIKit components, such as `UIToolbar` and `UINavigationBar`, to allow for greater visual customization. Their work included implementing rounded corners, gradient effects, and etched separators within table view cells and navigation bars. The user also addressed documentation errors and improved the integration of these custom UI elements within the example application.
neumorphismgradientsinterface-builderdeepershadow
vicpenap/vicpenap.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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