# Soojin Ro > Software Engineer @ Meta Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/soojin Tech Leader of international teams, while having worked in South Korea, Singapore, and New York. Security Cards Widget, my side project app, ranked #1 in the App Store and was among the in 2015, 2016, and 2017. I spoke at various iOS conferences in New York, Boston, Seoul, and write about iOS, Swift, and mobile apps on my blog (https://soojin.ro). ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Growth ### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead (iOS, Flutter) @ Momenti Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Momenti is a content platform that enables interactive content that you can touch and engage. - Grew & managed the mobile team of 6 members across New York, California, Seoul offices - Engineered a scalable, composable, layered architecture that accelerated feature development speed, often enabling releases ahead of schedule - Bridging the gaps between product and engineering. - Created interactive media platform with advanced use of AVFoundation, FFmpeg - Motivated & educated developers to write automated tests, including unit/integration/e2e tests - Used customized RIBs with Combine for iOS, and bloc for Flutter app architecture. - Oversaw 3 iOS apps, 3 Flutter apps with less than 1% downtime ### Senior Software Engineer, iOS/Flutter @ Grab Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Singapore GrabPay, Consumer Payment Experience Engineering Enhancements - Engineering Owner for Engineering Activities - Planned engineering improvement tasks(e.g. feature modularization, build time improvement, app size optimization, localization improvement, increase&maintain UT coverage, UI tests, reduce unit test execution overhead). - Led the development of major features e.g. GrabPay Card, Payment, Rewards(Flutter), served to millions of users in Southeast Asia - Led the development of GrabPay top-up module that is used extensively across Grab super app. - Set high code standards through detailed code reviews & numerous 1-on-1 chats/calls with team members. - Interviewed 20+ candidates for Lead/Senior iOS Engineer roles (2020) Product Impacts - Led the team's first Flutter development for Rewards feature. - Created reusable code/modules that improves user experience and developer productivity. - Translates product specifications to engineering tasks, identify limitations, trade-offs, and workarounds. - Managed sprint tasks to deliver new features on time. ### iOS Developer @ NAVER WEBTOON CORP Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Seongnam, Gyeonggi, South Korea Webtoons/Comics/Manhwa app: Global 4M+ reach across US, LATAM, Europe, Southeast Asia. Technical Impact - Managed QA and monthly release cycles. - Set and maintained standard for the codebase with thorough code reviews. (design, naming convention, improvements, etc) - Propagated best practices to teams through discussions and creating tutorials. - Designed and modularized common UI into reusable components. - Adopted Promises to improve design and readability of asynchronous APIs. - Transformed the UI to support Universal app using Adaptive Layout. Automation - Revamped CI/CD infra using Fastlane and Jenkins. - Fully automated deployment process, reducing time and manual effort to almost none. - Automated onboarding process of new team members using Fastlane. (certificates, profiles, and device registration) - Streamlined updating Localization.strings files for 6 languages. - Integrated Siri to deploy our app. e.g. "Hey Siri, deploy dev app" Mentorship - Mentored 4 interns with extensive online&offline technical reviews and lectures (3 of whom received full-time offer). - Recruited 5 university students as a mentor at NAVER Hackathons (2018 summer, 2019 winter). - Wrote 6 internal wiki articles/tutorials to share knowledge and inspire teammates. ### iOS Developer@NAVER LABS @ NAVER WEBTOON CORP Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Korea - Kid’s Smartwatch app - In-vehicle Navigation & Infotainment app (dropped) ### Android Developer @ LINE Plus Corp Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Korea - Developed ‘LINE Lite’, a light-weight LINE messaging app with under 1MB in size. ## Education ### Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Yonsei University ### Mobile Programming & Entrepreneurship NHN NEXT Institute ### Chinese Language and Literature Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/soojinro --- Source: https://flows.cv/soojin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/soojin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05