Tshepo Moodley

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VP of Engineering at Meridian Finance | ex-Google

Meridian Finance
Johannesburg, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
11+ years experience
Ashesi University
English, Afrikaans
Hiring
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Overview

I've spent 16 years on iOS apps - first at Microsoft, now at Meridian Finance. Took crash-free sessions from 96.3% to 99.8%. Most at home with Swift and UIKit. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Questions about iOS apps
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
UIKitCore DataErlang/OTPSwiftXCTest
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for a frontend engineer who has worked on Erlang/OTP at scale

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Mid
Type
Contract
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$180k-$221k + equity
Team
IOS, 10 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with XCTest Production experience with Core Data Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $174k-$315k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Johannesburg, South Africaswiftcore dataerlang/otp
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jun 2023 - Present
    Meridian Finance · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 6%.
    • Grew the iOS team from 5 to 24 engineers.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2023
    Google · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Led or co-led 12 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
    Twiga Foods · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Moved 68% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Senior iOS Engineer
    Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
    PwC · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.6% to 99.9%.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
    Microsoft · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 28% in two quarters.
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.8% to 99.7%.

Projects

IOS apps benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Erlang/OTP and XCTest on real workloads.

Write-up: iOS apps in practice
2022

A long-form guide to iOS apps for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Ashesi University
    BSc, Mathematics
    2005 - 2009

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