Zach Fetters
Staff IOS Engineer at Apollo GraphQL
Cincinnati Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Fetters is a Staff iOS Engineer with over a decade of experience building production-scale consumer apps and mobile SDKs, currently shaping Apollo GraphQL’s iOS client. He brings senior mobile expertise from roles at Twitter and Amazon and led mobile engineering at Marxent, blending hands-on implementation with tooling and automation. At Apollo he improved code generation and testing for the widely used apollo-ios GraphQL client, resolving subtle naming and symlink issues that improve reliability for downstream consumers. Based in the Cincinnati area, he pairs a game-and-simulation programming background with deep Swift and GraphQL knowledge, often focusing on developer experience and robust test coverage that prevent tricky runtime type conflicts.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Game and Simulation Programming, Bachelor's Degree, Game and Simulation Programming at DeVry University
Github Skills (9)
graphql-client10
unit-testing10
graphql10
swift10
ios10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
apollo-ios10
test-automation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/apollo-ios
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
📱 A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 releases, 110 reviews, 69 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Zach focused on improving the code generation process for a GraphQL client for iOS. They implemented fixes for code generation, addressing issues related to disallowed target names, and ensuring correct casing of variable names and field names. Additionally, they contributed to testing, writing new tests to validate symlink file deletion in operation-relative directories when using symlinks, and validating type conflicts within selection sets.
graphql-clientapollographqlcachingapollo-iosstrongly-typed
apollographql/apollo-ios-xcframework
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Repo used to allow building the Apollo iOS package as an XCFramework
Contributions:13 PRs, 51 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 7 months
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