Skip to content
View gergelyorosz's full-sized avatar
Block or Report

Block or report gergelyorosz

Block user

Prevent this user from interacting with your repositories and sending you notifications. Learn more about blocking users.

You must be logged in to block users.

Please don't include any personal information such as legal names or email addresses. Maximum 100 characters, markdown supported. This note will be visible to only you.
Report abuse

Contact GitHub support about this userโ€™s behavior. Learn more about reporting abuse.

Report abuse
gergelyorosz/README.md

Writing The Pragmatic Engineer, the #1 technology newsletter on Substack, and author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Advisor at mobile.dev where we're building the new standard for mobile development.

I live in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Formerly worked at Uber, Microsoft/Skype, Skyscanner and JP Morgan.

Writing

Work

  • Uber: built a lot of things at related to money: payments on the mobile and web, in the Rider, Driver and Eats app. Worked on some of the high-load distributed systems powering these products. The money systems handled more than $50B/year for more than 100M monthly users. Started as an engineer and I ended up managing a few teams later on.
  • Skyscanner: launched Skyscanner TravelPro: a coprorate travel booking solution. We signed up Transferwise as the first customer, then a few more companies, before realizing we did not hit product-market fit. I moved to Uber as we pivoted - and later the service was merged back into Skyscanner (a fancy way of saying it shut down).
  • Skype / Microsoft: worked on teams building a few standalone Skype products: Skype for Xbox One, Skype for the web and integrating Skype into Outlook.com. These products were used by more than 400M people at the time. Also built Skype for Firefox OS on an internal hackathon, but we never launched this one.
  • JP Morgan: built equity derivatives trading systems (exotics and delta ones) at JP Morgan. Sounds more complicated than it actually was. WPF, Java and the lot.
  • Mobile apps: was a profilic Windows Phone developer, building apps with over 15M total downloads.

Open Source

  • Helped open source RIBs, Uber's cross-platform mobile architecture framework. I did some talks on RIBs as well.
  • Co-built SkyFloatingLabelTextField, a Swift implementation of the "float label textfield".
  • ๐Ÿ’€ Open sourced AdRotator, a highly customizable ad rotation solution for Windows Phone and Windows 8. At its peak, over 1,000 apps were using (and making money with) this component.

Contact

Reach me on Twitter, on LinkedIn or at hello (at) gergelyorosz.com.

Pinned

  1. Skyscanner/SkyFloatingLabelTextField Skyscanner/SkyFloatingLabelTextField Public

    A beautiful and flexible text field control implementation of "Float Label Pattern". Written in Swift.

    Swift 4.1k 538

  2. swift-objective-c-mixed-project swift-objective-c-mixed-project Public

    Creating a mixed Swift 2.0 & Objective C project

    Objective-C 46 10

  3. gae-export-as-csv gae-export-as-csv Public

    Export Google App Engine data in csv format

    Python 19 3

  4. GhostSocialCasper GhostSocialCasper Public

    An extension to the Ghost Casper theme, adding a sidebar and social navigation links

    CSS 18 6

  5. ObjectiveCToSwiftStepByStep ObjectiveCToSwiftStepByStep Public

    Migrate Objective C Projects to Swift - Step By Step

    Objective-C 9 1

  6. SwiftAlgorithmsAndDataStructures SwiftAlgorithmsAndDataStructures Public

    Swift implementation of popular algorithms & data structures using Swift

    Swift 14 2