Roland Leth

A new beginning can surface such a mixture of emotions ... Excited. Scared. Eager. Patient. Hard working. Tired. Restless. Hopeful. We're a small software company, currently working on a couple of internal projects, but if you'd like to work with us, don't hesitate to reach out.

In close cooperation with our Head of Mobile, the Product and UI/UX teams we tried to make the best decisions, thinking about our users' best. We analysed and reviewed feature/change requests and suggested alternatives when needed. As a lead iOS developer I was responsible for: Defining the iOS architecture and guidelines. The planning and coordination of the iOS project. Suggesting best solutions and practices. UI and unit tests. Preparing and creating minimum viable UI test flows. Ensuring proper ticket specification so that we can increase the team productivity. Promoting, implementing and teaching iOS best practices. Integrating and mentoring junior members of the team, through pair programming sessions. Offering support to the iOS team, but also to other teams when needed. Sometimes helping the Frontend and Backend teams with Ruby related code. Mid 2016 we started planning the merge of two platforms, that would eventually became the main one, and this implied the creation of a new native app. My main responsibilities remained the same, with the addition of being more involved in Product decisions. The app was never finished, but eventually discarded, and mid 2017 we actually started the merge process related to the mobile apps. During this time I was responsible for: Taking a crucial role in specifying new APIs that were to be created on the new platform and used by the mobile apps. This was done in close cooperation with the backend and mobile teams. Supporting the backend and mobile teams in regards to the newly specified APIs. Coordinating the adaptation of the existing iOS app to the new business requirements and infrastructure. Cooperating with the Product and UI/UX teams to take the best decisions related to the required changes by the iOS app. Besides the above mentioned merge, one of the other biggest challenges was sometimes working with a total lack of designs/mocks, specifications, flows or real data.

During this time I participated in a Magento course, I tinkered with PHP for the creation of a couple of API proof of concepts, and I created several APIs with Node.js, Express & Elastic Search. In cooperation with a couple of backend members and the frontend Lead, we defined the APIs that had to be created for the merge of two projects that eventually became the main one.