About me
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.
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
More: How cognitive psychology and neuroscience contribute to the development of efficient (performing) AI models (Artificial Intelligence).