Felix Smith

Overview

Currently at Jade Grid, where I work on iOS apps. Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 897ms to 65ms. Most at home with Swift and SwiftUI. Learning Japanese, slowly.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Staff iOS Engineer

   Dec 2024 - Present
   Jade Grid · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
   • Grew the iOS team from 6 to 32 engineers.
   • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 7%.
2. Senior iOS Engineer

   May 2023 - Dec 2024
   Standard Chartered · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
   • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 5%.
   • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
3. iOS Engineer

   Jun 2021 - May 2023
   HSBC · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
   • Shipped 21 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
4. iOS Engineer

   Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
   Rightmove · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Edinburgh, UK
   • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 420ms to 84ms.
   • Wrote the Core Data service that now handles 9 million requests a day.

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Education

1. University College Dublin

   BSc, Mathematics
   2016 - 2019