Yarden Eitan
Consumer Mobile Platform Engineering Lead
New York, New York, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYarden Eitan is a design-driven mobile platform engineering lead with 12 years of experience delivering production iOS apps and building company-wide Design Systems at DoorDash and Google. He combines hands-on full-stack development—shipping SDKs and apps—with leadership of cross-platform design system teams that span Android and iOS, accessibility, themes, and animation. A former iOS lead at Mixpanel and contributor to widely used open-source projects like Mixpanel’s Swift and Objective-C SDKs and Material Components for iOS, he blends product sensibility with deep UI/UX and code-quality focus. Trained at Cambridge (MPhil) and shaped by startup and systems work from SanDisk firmware to founding a consumer app, he is equally comfortable in low-level C and Swift-based UI engineering. Based in New York but originally from Israel, he publishes about design and engineering and often bridges design thinking with pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Computer Science, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Computer Science at University of CambridgeBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (13)
mobile10
objective-c10
swift10
uikit10
ios10
mobile-development10
analytics10
ui-components10
sdk9
accessibility9
obj8
carthage6
cocoapods6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mixpanel/mixpanel-iphone
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Official iOS (Objective-C) Tracking Library for Mixpanel Analytics
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 187 commits, 91 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Yarden primarily contributed to the official iOS Mixpanel tracking library. Their work included fixing in-app notification display issues, improving the in-app notification design, and adding support for a light version. They also made improvements to exception handling within the swizzling functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed code-related issues and added support for a mini in-app notification style.
cocoapodsanalyticsobjective-cmixpanel-iphonemixpanel-sdk
material-components/material-components-ios
Nov 2017 - Apr 2022
[In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:26 releases, 3 reviews, 657 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yarden contributed to the Material Components for iOS library, focusing on UI component improvements and bug fixes. Their work involved removing legacy iOS support and applying code cleanup to improve the component's performance. Additionally, they implemented fixes to the navigation bar for iPhone X and the appearance of the selected icons, with further improvements for the touch behavior of the cards and also added features to support a11y. They also contributed to the creation of several examples demonstrating the features of the library's components, improving the visual touch feedback for users.
objective-cmaterial-componentsmaterialmaintenance-modecustomizable
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