Zac West
Staff Mobile Engineer at Dropbox
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZac West is a Staff Mobile Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping resilient, user-facing mobile apps from startup to scale at companies like Imgur and Dropbox. He specializes in iOS architecture—rewriting large apps for extensibility, building reusable UI and data layers, and implementing offline-friendly flows such as background uploads and Core Data/Realm sync. Zac has led first-mobile-hires to Editor’s Choice launches and driven cross-functional efforts including analytics taxonomies and ad-safety features, demonstrating product-minded technical leadership. His early systems work on high-availability RAID and C-based stacks gives him uncommon comfort across low-level systems and high-level app frameworks. Based in San Diego, he blogs and maintains a public presence at zacwe.st and GitHub, blending practical engineering craft with attention to long-lived, maintainable code.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (146)
lit-element10
realtime10
python10
testing10
websocket10
dotfile10
tailscale10
security10
wireguard10
realm10
3d10
starscream10
home-assistant10
vpn10
multiple-machines10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zacwest/ZSWSuffixTextView
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
UITextView subclass which displays a suffix after editable text and a placeholder.
Contributions:1 release, 64 commits, 2 pushes in 7 days
editableuitextview
zacwest/ZSWTaggedString
Feb 2015 - Jun 2021
Converts Strings into NSAttributedStrings using an HTML-like markup language.
Contributions:10 releases, 121 commits, 14 PRs in 6 years 5 months
markup-languageiosswiftstringobjective-c
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