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Matthew Roberts
Lives in Belfast, United Kingdom
Junior iOS Developer
Prefers only permanent roles at a minimum base salary of £35,000/yr
Job search status:
Ready to interview and actively searching
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MATTHEW'S WISHLIST
In priority order:
1.
I'm looking for a company that has a great culture and mentorship
2.
I'd like to work at a company with 16-50 employees
3.
My ideal company would be in these industries: casinos & gaming, cybersecurity, health care technology & nursing, social networking or tv, music, film, & theater
4.
I'm looking for a new position as a(n) individual contributor
5.
I aspire to work in these top technologies: JavaScript and Python
LOCATION
Wants to work in or near the following areas:
In priority order:
1. London, United Kingdom2. Belfast, United Kingdom
PRIMARY AREA OF EXPERTISE
Additional skills:
EXPERIENCE & ROLES
Total: Software Engineering
In order of proficiency:
1. Mobile
2. Gaming
WORK EXPERIENCE
Strafe
Junior iOS Developer
Apr 2018 — Nov 2019 (1 yr, 7 mos)
During my job I have worked with XCode, VSCode, Postman, GitHub, Terminal
including Homebrew, a little GraphQL and more. Has experience with both Carthage
and CocoPods for dependency management. Frameworks used during job include:
Alamofire, RxSwift, Lottie and ARAnalytics to name a few.

I spent the first 6-9 months self teaching Swift and the related tools required to do my job. I moved on to getting to grips with the codebase, and began implementing small features and changes/fixes to the application as soon as I was able.

One of the biggest challenges I overcame was building the 'Shop' screen in the application which was pivitol for the userbase in the direction the company was taking the application in. At the time it was a very large step-up from what I had been previously doing, and a lot of responsibiliy and agency was given to me to complete it to the best standard I could as it would be very prominently user-facing.

It was one of the largest and most important screens I ever worked on, and I had to come up with solutions for some of the design so it would be beautiful on a variety of iPhone types. The update this feature was added in was one of the biggest updates we had been working on. It went on to be one of the most visited and used screens in the application.
EDUCATION
Queens University Belfast
MSc Software Development
2017