Kelvin Lau
Senior Mobile Engineer II at raywenderlich.com
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKelvin L is a Senior Mobile Engineer II at Instacart in Vancouver with 10 years of experience designing and shipping iOS apps, having progressed through multiple senior roles at Instacart since 2018. He pairs production mobile engineering with developer education as a resident author for raywenderlich.com and a former iOS mentor at Lighthouse Labs. An early adopter of Swift during his agency days at Steamclock, Kelvin has worked across Swift, Objective-C and React Native and led app architecture for startups and agencies. He also contributes to open source—implementing algorithms like MergeSort and red-black trees in the well-known swift-algorithm-club—demonstrating attention to fundamentals as well as product delivery. His associates in physics and indie development roots give him a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach to solving complex mobile problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Physics, Associates of Physics at Langara College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
swift10
data-structure10
data-structures10
algorithms10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kodecocodes/swift-algorithm-club
Feb 2016 - Jan 2022
Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 535 commits, 430 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Kelvin's primary contributions involved implementing and modifying algorithms and data structures in Swift. They added code for MergeSort, both as a playground file and a standalone Swift file. Furthermore, the user removed a merge conflict, indicating involvement in code integration and version control within the project. Their work focuses on the implementation of data structures and algorithms, such as Red-Black Trees.
explanationsdata-structuresswiftalgorithms-and-data-structures
kodecocodes/DadJokes
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
A way to improve the programmer's day.
Contributions:23 commits, 14 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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