Zaki S
Staff Software Engineer at Design Park Apps
Danville, California, United States
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Top SchoolZaki S is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack consumer products and cross-platform mobile apps, currently driving engineering at Strava. He combines deep iOS and macOS expertise (Swift/ObjC) with front-end web skills in TypeScript/JavaScript, and has a track record of shipping AI-enhanced features for storytelling and creator tooling at Tome and Meta/Instagram. As a founder and founding engineer he’s launched product-focused companies and platforms that help creators own and monetize content, and he still contributes to open-source editor work like the AI-powered Plate rich-text project. Comfortable across backend, data pipelines, and UX, he repeatedly moves between startup grit and large-scale product engineering. Based in Danville, CA, he also advises early-stage teams and builds small apps through Design Park Apps, blending hands-on coding with strategic product thinking. An understated strength is his editor internals knowledge—small, user-facing text behaviors he’s implemented reveal a nuanced understanding of complex rich-text frameworks.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Foundation of Science Computer Science, Foundation of Science Computer Science at Army Burn Hall College for BoysBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
English, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi
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Github Skills (22)
testing10
typescript10
jestjs10
slate10
typescript-types10
jtest10
typescripts10
react10
objective-c9
wysiwyg9
homebrew9
rosetta6
xcode6
uitableview6
macos-big-sur6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
udecode/plate
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
A rich-text editor powered by AI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Zaki primarily focused on enhancing the rich-text editor's functionality. Their contributions include implementing features such as indenting/un-indenting list items, enabling the unindent of top-level list items, and adding the ability to escape autoformat rules by pressing backspace. The user also implemented a feature to wrap text into link elements when inserting a break. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of the underlying text editor framework.
plugin-systemrich-textwysiwyg-editorrichtextjavascript
zakishaheen/tempcode
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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