iOS · Visual Discovery
Worked on iOS features and experiments for Pinterest's Activation team, improving the experience for new users during their first 28 days.
Senior iOS Engineer·BairesDev contractor·Apr 2021 – May 2022
Overview
Pinterest is a visual discovery platform where people find, save, and share ideas and inspiration. As part of the Activation team, I worked on features, bug fixes, and experiments focused on improving the early user experience, especially during the first 28 days after sign-up.
Key Contributions
- —Built and maintained iOS features and bug fixes for Pinterest's Activation team
- —Ran product experiments, analyzed collected data, and presented results to support rollout decisions
- —Implemented features to adapt to iOS privacy changes, shifting focus from third-party to first-party data collection
- —Worked with Pinterest's internal A/B testing framework, Experiments, including Python-based targeting for specific user groups
- —Built Objective-C/UIKit interfaces with Texture, focusing on performance and scalable UI implementation
- —Added and maintained unit and UI tests with XCTest
Tech Stack
Objective-CUIKitTexturePythonExperimentsXCTestUI TestingMVCMVVMCocoaPodsJenkins