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DANIEL JAMES TRONCA

iOS ENGINEER

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

UI/UX DESIGNER


Profile

Creative iOS engineer with a proven track record in the App Store, dedicated to building beautifully designed and highly functional apps. I bring a design-driven approach and a passion for pushing boundaries with Swift and SwiftUI, creating solutions that captivate and engage users.

I bring together vision, technical depth, and a relentless drive for excellence—skills that inspire teams and shape exceptional user experiences. Agile by practice, I have built a portfolio of impactful apps that consistently meet the mark.


Work

Zalando

Jul 2024 - Present

Isybank

Mar 2023 - Jul 2024

Hype

June 2021 - May 2023 • 2 years

• Worked in team on critical features with Agile methodologies. Wrote maintainable Swift code with Unit and UI tests and comprehensive documentation. • Led the development of a performant, remotely customisable Homepage seen by 100.000 user per day. • Became first point of contact for multiple key areas of the app such as Investments, Dashboard, Payments, Profile, Menu, Rating and Reviews. • Re-designed the company git-flow. • Invested time to reduce tech debt and work on issues. • Improved App Store rating of the app.

Uniwhere

1 year 6 months

Revelop - iOS Engineer

Full time

Feb 2021 – May 2021

iOS developer at Revelop, a startup helping top performers make the most out of the personal inbox. Revelop is backed by former Facebook executives, and it’s being used in the best schools of the world — from Harvard to Columbia.
• Native Gmail and Outlook client;
• App developed with declarative patterns, using Viper Architecture, SwiftUI and Combine.

Uniwhere - iOS Engineer

Full time

Jan 2020 – Feb 2021

Uniwhere is helping students stay on top of their academic life. Uniwhere is venture backed, grew to 500,000 students worldwide.
• Handled the whole iOS application and developed different features for students;
• Gmail and Outlook integration;
• Subscription plan (IAP: In app purchases).

Independent iOS App Developer

Sep 2018 - present • 5 years

Created a variety of high-quality apps using Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI that went on to be featured on ProductHunt (were top 100 in the charts in respective category on the App Store). Excellent design and user experience skills to maintain the iOS feel and adhere to the iOS human interface guidelines, whilst adding UI flair. Also, picking up new APIs and technologies as they get released, and adopting them into my apps to keep them current and at the forefront of what can be achieved on Apple platforms.


Education

Computer Science - Bachelor Degree · University of Padua

2017 - 2020

Thesis title: Improving development speed on iOS with modularization and declarative UI—an implementation with Kotlin Multiplatform and SwiftUI

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