Eugene Bistolas
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Kihei, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEugene Bistolas is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple with over a decade of mobile engineering experience focused on delivering polished, performant user experiences across iOS and cross-platform products. He led platform and architectural initiatives for Humane’s AI Pin and previously shipped core Messages features at Apple—search, Tapbacks, location sharing, iMessage apps and stickers—demonstrating deep system-level and product UX expertise. He contributed to the widely used Signal-iOS project, improving emoji handling, context-menu and keyboard animations, and Xcode/iOS compatibility, showing a practical focus on stability and interaction polish. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and an engineering manager, he partners with cross-functional teams to take features from architecture through release. Based in Kihei, Hawaii, he combines product-minded engineering with an eye for delightful, high-impact details.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (10)
swift10
ios10
mobile-development10
animation10
emoji9
code-generation8
ui-design8
interface-design7
user-interface7
objective-c7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
signalapp/Signal-iOS
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
A private messenger for iOS.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:216 commits, 1 push, 2 tags in 6 months
Contributions summary:Eugene primarily contributed to the iOS application of Signal. The contributions focused on updating and generating emoji-related code. Further work involved bug fixes and improving animations, particularly around context menus, message insertions and deletions, and keyboard interaction for improved usability of the application. The user also worked on a series of performance and build fixes that related to Xcode 13 and iOS 15, indicating a focus on maintaining the application's stability and user experience.
signalchatcommunicationswiftios
signalapp/YYImage
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Image framework for iOS to display/encode/decode animated WebP, APNG, GIF, and more.
Contributions:1 commit, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 day
apngcocoapodsanimated-webpimageanimated
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