# Michael Pace

> 🍎 Experienced iOS Engineer with a penchant for #TDD📱

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelpace

Senior iOS engineer with over a decade of experience building and scaling mobile applications across greenfield, legacy, and high-traffic environments. Expert in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and modern architectural patterns (MVVM+R, modularization), with deep expertise in XCTest, UI testing, snapshot testing, and Xcode tooling (XcodeGen, CI/CD pipelines, Fastlane). Known for improving developer velocity through clean architecture, automated testing strategies, and performance optimization using Instruments and system-level debugging tools. Trusted technical leader skilled in mentoring engineers, strengthening engineering culture, and driving high-quality mobile execution from design through release.

## Work Experience
### Staff iOS Engineer @ Fanatics, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
Led greenfield development and release of two iOS apps (FanApp and Sportsbook) while modernizing mobile architecture, scaling, engineering processes and improving platform reliability.

Customer-Facing Delivery & Architecture:
- Delivered a full greenfield rebuild of decade-old iOS App, boosting monthly revenue to $1M and achieving a 4.8+ AppStore rating. 
- Implemented a data-driven, schema-governed API contract that streamlined page feed rendering and reduced future development time by thousands of engineering hours.
- Engineered a high-frequency WebSocket consumer capable of processing 100s of market updates per second at 60fps, while minimizing battery and CPU overhead.

Code Quality & Engineering Efficiency:
- Established iOS coding standards with MVVM+R architecture (UIKit/SwiftUI), enabling parallel development for 10+ engineers, reducing onboarding time, and improving code consistency.
- Improved developer velocity by simplifying module boundaries, removing unnecessary dependencies, and enforcing a scalable architectural pattern across teams.
- Built a resilient networking layer with retry logic, offline queueing, and exponential backoff for fault-tolerant real-time features.

Automation & Platform Reliability:
- Increased automated test coverage across iOS, Android, and Kotlin Multiplatform projects, significantly reducing regression rates and manual QA efforts.
- Led rollout of automated QA pipelines, accelerating release cadence and improving runtime stability.

Organizational Leadership:
- Enabled dozens of engineers to onboard and contribute within two months through clear system documentation and architectural simplification of a complex Kotlin Multiplatform codebase.
- Drove mobile hiring processes, refining interview loops, and building a high-caliber iOS engineering pipeline.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Angi
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Modernized legacy iOS apps and introduced testing and automation strategies that stabilized the platform and accelerated delivery.

Platform Stabilization & Developer Velocity:
- Saved developers hundreds of hours per quarter by converting manual QA scenarios into automated tests using Ruby, improving release quality, and reducing regressions.
- Reduced regressions by 40% by enforcing mandatory tests on all new and modified code, eliminating hot fixes.
- Integrated automation into GitHub workflows, streamlining release processes and developer feedback loops.

Legacy Modernization & Product Stability:
- Refactored Ads & Leads iOS apps, improving testability and reducing crash rates by 25%.
- Proposed and implemented strategies for modularizing legacy code.

Testing & QA Automation:
- Developed automated regression tests using Sinatra and UI testing, saving ~30 QA hours/month.

Technical Governance:
- Drove cross-team discussions around technical debt management and prioritization.
- Shaped iOS hiring pipeline by participating in interviews and helping build a cohesive, higher-quality engineering team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Flowhub
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Denver, Colorado, United States
Led the architecture and delivery of a greenfield cross-platform payments app using React Native and TypeScript.

Cross-Platform Product Development:
- Served as Tech Lead for a greenfield payments app, defining architecture, unblocking engineers, and guiding product through prototype to production.

iOS Refactoring & Platform Improvements:
- Modernized a legacy Swift codebase to improve modularity, increase testability, and enable faster iteration across multiple teams.

CI/CD & Development Practices:
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines that improved build reliability, reduce manual deployment efforts, and established TDD and agile workflows across the team.
- Mentored peers in XP practices (pair programming, iterative development, CI), strengthening team collaboration and code quality.

### Sabbatical @ none
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Denver, Colorado, United States
I am currently studying programming problems everyday for the foreseeable future. I am open to hearing about full time opportunities in the fall of 2020.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Ibotta, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Denver, Colorado
Contributed to Redemption UX squad, improving the reliability of cash back redemption features during a legacy system transition.
- Designed a lightweight modernization strategy for a high-risk legacy components, enabling safer increment refactoring and reducing regression risk.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Denver, Colorado

### Software Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Denver
• Lead multiple iOS applications to AppStore releases
• Required mastery of test driven development with Swift/iOS and other technologies
• Modernized legacy Swift/iOS applications with acceptance/integration/unit test suites
• Teaching XP processes (pairing, TDD, CI/CD), leading teams of various sizes and expectations
• Comfortable mentoring engineers through paired programming

### iOS Developer @ OCV, LLC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Auburn, AL
• Maintained, updated, and built iOS apps based on client needs
• Performed quality assurance tests on projects
• Required familiarity with iOS SDK, Objective-C and Xcode
• Worked with graphic designer to implement designs with Storyboards
• Comfortable with the iPhone/iPad provisioning process
• Built/updated over 25 apps in App Store (full list below)

### Software Engineer Internship @ SAIC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Huntsville, Alabama Area
• Developed interface for flight simulator in C# and WPF
• Gained exposure to software development lifecycle
• Required familiarity with Model-View-ViewModel design pattern 
• Comfortable using MVVM Light libraries
• Participated in AGILE software development process
• Granted Secret level US government security clearance (expired)

### Cyber Security Analyst @ Florida Power & Light
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Miami, Florida
• Established enhanced visibility into NEE cloud service usage
• Developed detailed reports for executives, management and technical analyst
• Responsible for analysis of company policy enforcement of cloud usage
• Improved security controls on approved cloud services via enterprise wide standards regarding cloud services
• Gained experience and familiarity with Bluecoat Systems and SkyHigh technologies

### Lead Instructor @ iD Tech Camps
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Columbus, Ohio
· Prepared lessons plans in Java/C++ programming, VEX robotics & Scratch 
· Taught a class of students ages 7-17 for 8 weeks
· Supervised 40+ students and maintained a safe camp environment
· Administered accurate, up to date medications and health log
· Managed with location set-up, tear down and product inventory/assessment


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Computer Software Engineering
Auburn University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/americopace

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Last updated: 2026-03-22