John Regner

An expert technologist with an eye for quality and the drive to achieve it. I thrive when my teammates succeed.

iOS Developer — 2015–Present

Work History: Walmart, Safeway, Tripstr, Spark App Studio
Tech Fluency: Swift, Objective-C, git, carthage, ruby, bash, GraphQL, Core Animation, Quartz, svn, Agile

Team

• Designed and lead trainings: Git workflows, Unit Testing, Object Oriented Design, UIKit, and CA basics
• Established myself as the build environment support to eliminate tech issues for developers
• Introduced and organized efforts to align developer and CI tooling to reduce errors
• Converted Safeway iOS team from SVN to Git for increased flexibility

Initiative

• Developed and deployed custom Pull Request error reporting in order to shorten developer feedback loop
• Identified need for iPad version at Walmart and built proof of concept to demonstrate for management
• Co-Founder of Spark App Studio

Author

• Successfully shipped dozens of apps and versions independently and as part of large teams
• Authored feature work used by millions of customers including feature flags and VoiceOver support
• Wrote scripts around Walmart ReactNative wrapper to save developers time
• Used Photos framework along with CoreData and AsyncDisplayKit to engage users

Workflow

• Ensured regressions were caught early in iterations by adopting XCUITest and FBSnapshotTestcase
• Removed errors from build process with fastlane so multiple build variants could be created
• Performed an audit of Github Organization permissions to ensure appropriate access
• Researched and deployed numerous Swift, Xcode, and tooling migrations for a team of 170 devlelopers

Organizer & Presenter — Santa Clara iOS Connect 2015–2017

• Taught and mentored beginning and intermediate iOS programmers through meet-ups
• Designed and presented trainings on iOS Unit/UITesting, Git + GitHub, and CoreLocation

Software QA — Astronautics Corporation of America 2012–2015

Tech: Linux, bash, python, sed, awk, C, C++, Visual Studio, Cygwin, make

• Automated re-imaging of server and install of testing scripts to reduce testing time
• Designed tests and scripts for verification of a Linux Server and remote terminals

R&D Intern — MIT Lincoln Lab Summers 2009–2011

Tech: C#, Visual Studio, LabView, MATLAB, Simulink

• Designed and built radar user interface, and FPGA radar sub components
• Implemented k-means clustering algorithm and associated graph

Education - MSOE - BS Electrical Engineering 2007–2011

• WAVE Smart Home Power Monitor – Tech: C, C#, SVN, Embedded Systems, Perl, Wireless UART
• iPhone Audio Effects System – Tech: Objective-C, CoreAudio, Debugging

Aviation Electronics Technician — US Navy 2003–2007

• Supervised and delegated troubleshooting and maintenance tasks to a team of 8 people
• Analyzed and repaired faults in multiple hardware systems

Professional Development

• C Programming - March 2022
• DevCamp Hackathon - Best Open Source - San Francisco, Nov 2016
• Functional Swift Conf - Dec 2014 & Apr 2017
• Swift Summit - Oct 2015
• Swift Lang User Group - 2015–2016
• Santa Clara iOS Connect - 2015–2017
• Advanced iOS Big Nerd Ranch - Atlanta, GA - Feb 2015
• RokkinCat Hackathon - Oct 2014 & Jan 2015
• NSCoder Milwaukee - 2014–2015
• CocoaConf - Aug 2014

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