Hey everyone! I'm Fernando Ortiz, I'm 32 and work as a Software Engineer, remotely from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Let's start with a quick summary of my career:

• I graduated from the Universidad Nacional de La Matanza
• I've worked 2.5 years as a researcher in Augmented Reality publishing papers like this one.
• In February 2015, I started working as an iOS Developer in Adoos, a marketplace startup with mobile apps and a website.
• In October 2015, I left Adoos to start working at Infinixsoft, as a Software Engineer. I worked there until June 2020 in different roles, from iOS developer, to React Native/Node.js developer, to Project Leader and Mobile Architect.
• Then, in July 2020, I started working at Parser Digital where I'm working at this moment as a mobile Software Engineer and as Mobile Chapter Lead, organizing talks and events, and ensuring the knowledge is accordingly spread across the team.
• I'm also a University professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Matanza since 2020.

Apart from the main timeline I've just described, I have written articles, worked in projects and learned a lot of useful skills during these ~10 years.

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🧠 My skills:

• iOS development:
  • Swift (from 1.1 to 5.3). Advanced Swift knowledge and love for the language.
  • Core Data and other core frameworks in the iOS landscape like in-app purchases, push notifications, etc.
  • Ability to work on a project from the start to the publication on the App Store and beyond.
  • Ability to modularize and scale iOS projects
• Node.js development:
  • Javascript/Typescript knowledge.
  • MongoDB
  • GraphQL/REST
• React Native development:
  • React/React Native practical knowledge.
  • Redux/Vanilla React state management.
  • Expo/standalone React Native experience.
• QA Automation
  • Basic knowledge on mobile test automation using Appium/WebdriverIO.
• Project Leading
  • Managing relationships with stakeholders.
  • Working internally with teams assigning tasks, keeping internal teams functioning with clear priorities.
  • Leading live demos with different stakeholders.
  • Strategic planning and roadmapping.

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📚 My articles:

• Notes and links on fixing font imports in iOS
• Designing apps with remote flexibility
• Home widgets in iOS
• Flutter: Initial impressions
• Forgotten UIKit gems: UIAppearance
• MVP: Minimum Viable Promise
• CI/CD in iOS Development
• DispatchGroup in Swift
• Mobile e2e tests using WebdriverIO and Appium
• Expressiveness and extensions
• How to modularize a big iOS project
• The Architecture Cake
• Basic AVPlayerViewController
• Decisions and Policies
• Persistence with Core Data and SwiftUI
• Custom Containers in SwiftUI
• Noise and sound
• Unidirectional Architectures and time traveling in Swift: II
• Unidirectional Architectures and time traveling in Swift: I
• On testing private methods
• On abstractions and architecture
• Starting Quick / BDD in iOS
• Testing the Untested
• Simple Dependency Injection using @propertyWrapper
• A single source of truth
• Minimal Networking layer from scratch in Swift 4
• Service-oriented AppDelegate
• Group By in Swift 3
• Architecting an Analytics layer
• A better, exhaustive switch in UITableView protocols
• Be Literal!
• Isolating tasks in Swift, or how to create a testable networking layer
• Customize MapKit’s MKMapView with Google Maps styling wizard
• Github now allows you to tag your repositories
• Keep your dependencies explicit
• Managing async code in Swift
• Interface builder is great. Storyboards are not
• Presentation Controls, custom views and lighter UIViewControllers - part 2
• Presentation Controls, custom views and lighter UIViewControllers - part 1
• Easily register and dequeue UITableViewCell in Swift

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✍️ Important links:

• My personal blog on dev.to
• My old personal blog on Medium
• My Linkedin
• My email