# James Rochabrun > iOS Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesrochabrun Self-taught engineer focused on building native iOS and macOS apps using Swift and SwiftUI, often integrating AI to expand what’s possible in developer experience. At Airbnb, I work on internal tools that improve engineering workflows through agentic systems and AI-assisted development. Outside of work, I’m a dad of two and an active contributor to open-source projects focused on building AI frameworks for Swift—designed to make it easier to integrate LLMs and agent-based patterns into Apple platforms. Creator of SwiftOpenAI, SwiftAnthropic, and more. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2023 – Present | Estados Unidos AI Developer Tools & Platform • Led development of AirChat for Xcode, Airbnb's native AI coding assistant — ranked #1 most improved dev tool with 94.9% agent mode adoption • Integrated Claude Code into Xcode by building a Swift SDK that runs Claude Code as a subprocess, enabling agentic coding capabilities in Apple's closed IDE environment • Built agent mode infrastructure with MCP protocol support, extended thinking, and multi-chat workflows • Architected multimodal prompting system supporting code context, images, PDFs, and IDE awareness through Apple's Accessibility APIs Technical Evangelism & Knowledge Sharing Delivered technical talks and hands-on sessions across multiple teams on applying AI to boost developer productivity, agent-based workflows, and IDE-integrated tooling Open Source & Technical Leadership • Created SwiftOpenAI (650+ stars) and SwiftAnthropic (250+ stars) — the Swift SDKs that enabled AirChat development, as AI providers only offer official support for Python and TypeScript • Released 10+ open source projects totaling 1,200+ GitHub stars, filling critical gaps in Swift AI tooling • Published technical articles on AI integration in iOS development ### iOS Software Engineer @ Airbnb Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Host Calendar Redesign • Led complete iOS Host Calendar rewrite over 9 months — 168+ PRs, coordinating with infrastructure, product, and cross-platform teams • Achieved 100% rollout with 99%+ stability, closing 14 accessibility bugs and improving STH metrics by 3.2% • Resolved performance regression, turning -4.8% TTIL regression into +3% optimization SwiftUI Pioneer • Member of inaugural SwiftUI pilots for components and screens, building some of Airbnb's first production SwiftUI features • Developed complex calendar UI components with multi-day reservations, accessibility support, and pagination • Contributed directly to SwiftUI achieving general availability for all iOS engineers ### Senior Software Applications Engineer @ Verizon Media Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### Software Application Engineer II @ Verizon Media Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California ### Software Applications Engineer @ Verizon Media Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California Yahoo! Mail iOS team. ### iOS Developer @ Kodak Alaris Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### iOS Developer @ Start App Studio Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area UX Design, iOS Development independent contractor. ### iOS Developer @ Oomami.inc Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco • Layout of latest design implementation programmatically. • Implementation of features for edition and filter images, using Core Image framework • Work in Agile environment using Git and solving merge conflicts. • Afnetworking implementation. • Responsible for the last two versions pushed in the AppStore. • Core Graphics framework implementation. • Integrate client side with Oomami REST API. ### PR Manager & Marketing @ Zomato Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santiago de Chile ### Founder/Product Manager @ deemelo Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 Deemelo a mobile tool for shoppers to find great fashion products available in nearby stores. For retailers, we offer an easy and effective platform to engage with nearby shoppers. With deemelo you can find all the fashion of your city in your smartphone, you can follow and be followed, share your discoveries and get fashion levels that let you get vip acces to the best fashion events. All the Fashion of the city in your hands! Deemelo una herramienta móvil para compradores que ayuda a encontrar prendas y accesorios en tiendas cercanas. Con Deemelo puedes encontrar toda la moda de a ciudad en tu Smartphone, puedes seguir a otros usuarios y ser seguido, compartir tus descubrimientos y obtener puntos que podrás usar para acceder a exclusivos descuentos y entradas Vip para los mejores eventos de moda. Toda la moda de la ciudad en tus manos! ### Participant @ Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Participante de la incubadora del instituto 3IE de la Universidad Federico Santa Maria. ### Participant @ Start-Up Chile Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 ## Education ### iOS developer in iOS Development, Objective-C & Swift Hack Reactor Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### iOS Developer in iOS Mobile makers Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jamesrochabrun - Website: https://jamesrochabrunsite.wordpress.com/ - Website: https://medium.com/@jamesrochabrun - Website: http://startappstudio.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/jamesrochabrun JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jamesrochabrun/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22