Rob Ward

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Engineering Manager at Elmstead Software · UIKit, XCTest

Elmstead Software
Bristol, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
6+ years experience
University of Bristol
English
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Overview

Based in Bristol. I lead iOS apps at Elmstead Software. Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Skills
CombineSwiftCore DataSwiftUIUIKitXCTest

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Elmstead Software · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 39 a week to 3.
    • Shipped 26 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
  2. iOS Engineer
    Jul 2021 - Sep 2024
    Tesco · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 40% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 3.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
    Ryanair · 9 mo · Full-time · Bristol, UK
    • Shipped 12 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 6.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from iOS
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling iOS apps.

Open-source Core Data toolkit
2022

A small library for iOS apps that 618 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. University of Bristol
    BSc, Information Technology
    2017 - 2020

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