Yannick Loriot
Software Engineer WhatsApp
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYannick Loriot is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently working on WhatsApp at Meta after contributing across Horizon and Workplace projects. He blends mobile-first craftsmanship in iOS and Swift with full‑stack skills in Node.js and React, shipping performance and reliability improvements at scale. As a former CTO and co-founder, he brings product-minded engineering, CI/DevOps and team processes to bear on fast-moving projects. A prolific open-source contributor, his Swift libraries (color manipulation, custom UI controls, QR readers and interactive transitions) emphasize polish, usability and test coverage. He is fluent in both hands-on UI/UX work and backend reliability fixes (e.g., Socket.IO client fixes), and often pairs visual design sensibilities with low-level Core Graphics and animation expertise. Based in the UK and trained in software engineering and applied math, he’s known for curiosity, autonomy and a knack for turning prototypes into production-grade components.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master 2 (M2), Informatique et Mathématiques appliquées, spécialité Génie logiciel, Master 2 (M2), Informatique et Mathématiques appliquées, spécialité Génie logiciel at Université Grenoble Alpes
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Github Skills (36)
socket-io10
french10
objective-c10
francais10
ios10
url-encoding10
animation10
testing10
swiftui-app10
ui-design10
networking10
uid10
gesture-recognition10
localization10
socket10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
yannickl/Splitflap
Nov 2015 - Sep 2019
A simple split-flap display for your Swift applications
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily worked on updating and refactoring the example project for the `splitflap` Swift application. Their contributions include updating the example project, refactoring the data source/delegate design, and adding delegate methods. They also made changes to improve the UI and incorporate features like a logo and font customization.
splitswiftsplit-flap-displayflapsplit-flap
yannickl/YLProgressBar
Feb 2012 - Jan 2019
UIProgressView replacement with an highly and fully customizable animated progress bar in pure Core Graphics
Role in this project:UI Developer
UI DeveloperContributions:175 commits, 9 PRs, 58 pushes in 7 years
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily contributed to the UI of the YLProgressBar library. Their commits include fixing visual glitches, updating the sample project to newer iOS versions and Xcode, and refactoring the code. They also added features like the ability to customize the progress bar's appearance and behavior, including the stripes and gloss effects.
animationcore-graphicstoolbaranimatedcustomview
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