Kevin Gifford

Kevin Gifford

Skills

Job experience

Phone
+3620338783910

Email
kgt@gitmax.com

Working with stakeholders to identify business requirement and deliver them in the apps.
Leading distributed team of mobile developers
Ensuring knowledge transfer between onshore and offshore teams.
Coaching team members on the best development standards and practices.
Leading the development of internal clients applications (iOS, Swift, MVC, Rest, MVVM) used by the staff in critical areas.
Setting up continuous delivery infrastructure (Azure, VSTS, build agents).

2021.10 - current

GitMax
Mobile team lead

10 years

IOS

6 years

Swift

2 years

SwiftUI

2020.03 - 2021.10

Alibaba Group
Head of Mobile

Alibaba Group
Senior Software Developer

2018.10 - 2020.03

Developed:

AliExpress Global mobile app features;
Infrastructure libraries for AliExpress Global app;
Backend for Social e-commerce functionality integrated into FB;
Architecture advisor linters pack which is now used across whole Alibaba Group (Taobao, Alipay, Alicloud etc). (Clang, C++);
Backend for Seller Center (Spring, Java).

Reflexis Systems
Head of Mobile

2016.09 - 2018.10

Developed 20 more banking apps (Some based on white label solution, some with deep customisation, some still in development).
Hired and built team of 11 iOS developers with own development standards.

Reflexis Systems
Senior iOS Developer

2015.09 - 2016.09

Developed in a team a mobile banking construction platform.
Because of two headlining products based on this platform, company was able to attract 20 more banks as clients and develop 4 types of banking products: mobile bank, agency bank, electronic wallet, payments library.

Clients:

Facebook
IOS Developer

2014.09 - 2015.09

Developed HandShake Visit Cards exchange and Meetings app.
Researched and developed UDP whole punching module using STUN/ICE servers for P2P communications.

Sigma Software Group
Mobile developer

2014.01 - 2015.09

Developed Android client for remote work with virtualization complex based on open source realization of aSpice app.
Added custom GOST algorithms encryption modules.
Developed pre-sale prototype applications for Google glass - Smart Map, Recognition.

Cogniance
IOS Developer

2013.01 - 2013.10

Developed iPhone and iPad client of Gosuslugi.ru.
Developed pre-sale projects:

Techery
Trainee developer

2011.06 - 2011.12

Warsaw University of Technology (2015)

Education

6 years

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Leadership

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