Vijaya Kandel
Software Engineering Manager at Zalando SE
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolVijaya Kandel is a software engineering manager based in Berlin with 11 years of mobile-first experience, currently leading two cross-platform mobile teams at Zalando. He blends hands-on iOS development (8+ years) with pragmatic leadership—coaching senior engineers, driving architecture for a backend-driven mobile UI, and keeping delivery aligned with company goals. A persistent practitioner of software craftsmanship, he champions testing, CI tooling, modular architectures and developer experience while still shipping code and running workshops. Vijaya explores functional programming and languages like Elm and Haskell, bringing FP ideas into iOS architectures and experimenting with Kotlin Multiplatform and SwiftUI. He founded a mobile startup, contributes to OSS, and has spoken at conferences—an engineer-manager who prefers democratic decision-making and emotional intelligence over hierarchy. Notably, he combines practical product work (checkout, Apple Pay, modular VIPER migrations) with research-led experiments in data-driven native UI rendering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc IT, Computing, GPA 3.5, Bsc IT, Computing, GPA 3.5 at London Metropolitan UniversityHigh school +2, Science with math, High school +2, Science with math at Budhanil Kantha
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (169)
json-parser10
programming-language10
json-data10
vim10
swift-package-manager10
emacs10
carthage10
swift10
json10
mongokitten10
xcode10
macos10
objective-c10
ios10
visible10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kandelvijaya/XcodeFormatter
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 77 commits, 11 PRs in 1 month
swiftiosxcodecorrection
kandelvijaya/Kekka
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Functional Types in Swift
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 2 months
swiftfunctional-programming
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