# Ignacy Z.

> Software Engineer (iOS)

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ignacy

I am a Senior+ iOS developer with many years experience developing consumer apps. I wish to apply my varied technical and creative talents to produce interesting and meaningful work, all while helping others apply their best selves to our shared goals.

Hobbies include photography, capoeira, and snowboarding.

## Work Experience
### Senior Engineer @ Spruce Health
Jan 2024 – Present

### Senior iOS Engineer @ Tempo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Led re-architecture and modularization of monolithic onboarding system, transforming into an intent-based system that is easy to reason about, testable, and reusable for demo mode and just-in-time onboarding

- Initiated and led architecture, implementation, and evolution of a design system on iOS; evangelized and oversaw its use and growth throughout the iOS project, increasing developer velocity, testability, and guaranteeing UI consistency

- Refactored major areas of the legacy codebase for quality, stability, and modern standards

- Laid off as part of a severe reduction in force

### Software Engineer - iOS @ Lyft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA
- Founding member of the Memberships team, led mobile efforts to implement membership sales and management products, from experimentation and market research to productizing Lyft Pink

- Architected flexible, cross-platform, and backwards-compatible purchase flow for Lyft Pink

- Developed features and experiments on the Passenger Growth team, focusing on customer discounts and application onboarding

### Senior Developer @ Deezer
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California
Deezer acquired Stitcher in October 2014.

- After acquisition, continued to maintain and add features to existing Stitcher app 
- Integrated Talk browse and playback capabilities into Deezer application

### Senior Software Engineer @ Stitcher
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA
iOS:
- Refactored app internals for more generalized and flexible use
- Implemented many core features, including: offline listening, background refresh, new playback mechanism, user front page (news feed)
- Re-implemented Stitcher's BMW integration using their RAPI SDK

Web:
- Architected and led 3-person team in developing JavaScript-based Stitcher technology; using this core, implemented multiple web-based Stitcher clients, including: Stitcher web app, Stitcher widgets and Show Pages
- Implemented and maintained PHP code as needed

### Senior Developer @ Mekanism
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA
- Integrated PHP frameworks with social media platforms, providing AMF services to Flash applications
- Provided in-house iOS expertise, building and maintaining iPhone apps
- Clients included: DKNY, Microsoft, Virgin America, Pepsi, IAVA, TakePart, eBay, Schwab, 20th Century Fox

### Freelance Developer @ Mekanism
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
- Implemented Omniture tracking on Drupal-based community site
- Deployed Facebook applications for marketing campaigns

### Self-Employed @ Freelance Web/IT Consultant
Jan 2002 – Jan 2012
Provided web development and IT services. Delivered numerous projects, from simple websites to advanced Web 2.0 applications and immersive QTVR experiences.

### Photographer @ Self Employed Photographer
Jan 2005 – Jan 2011
Freelance assignment, event and art photographer.

http://photos.ignacy.net

### Technical Lead @ Zoomedia
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009
- Responsible for architecture, development and maintenance of dozens of custom web sites and web-based applications, primarily for clients in the Life Sciences industry
- Integrated various Web2.0 technologies based around the LAMP stack to develop client and internal websites, including a proprietary PHP-based MVC API and CMS
- Developed portal platform featuring modular search engine, integrating varied data sources

### Technologist @ tcgagency.com
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
- Responsible for front-end and back-end website development using DHTML, PHP, Flash

### Front-End Developer @ Razorfish
Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | San Francisco, California
- Performed maintenance and R&D work using various technologies, including JHTML, Dynabase, Dynamo, UltraSEEK and WML


## Education
### Bachelor's in Computer Science
Brown University

### High School Diploma
Saint Ann's School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ignacy
- Website: http://ignacy.net

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Last updated: 2026-04-01