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    Peter Boctor

    Peter Boctor

    Full stack developer, advanced iOS engineer, startup veteran, loves technology and building products

    Software Engineer Seattle University of Washington
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    Projects
    Zaarly 1.0
    iOS developer · Ask for anything! You posted a request that included what you wanted (tickets to an even, or for someone to go stand in line for you),… · More how much you wanted to pay and where you were.
    Hot Popcorn 1.0
    Movie app with trailers, movie times and in-app tickets
    Hot Popcorn was a full featured movie app that included movie information, reviews, trailers, rotten tomatoes scores, and movie tickets purchasing.
    Zaarly 1.5
    iOS Developer · Zaarly 1.5 introduced request examples, alerts for sellers and a way to negotiate the price prior to accepting the request.
    Zaarly 2.0
    iOS Developer · Zaarly 2.0 introduced profiles as well as a design overhaul.
    Skedadel 1.0
    Delightful City Guides
    Founder, iOS developer, Backend developer, Designer · Skedadel 1.0 was a guide creation and sharing app. A guide was one or more place, each with a tip… · More or info about the place.
    Zaarly 3.0
    Zaarly 3.0 switched from a request model to a marketplace were sellers listed their products and services.
    Skedadel 2.0
    The photo is the new review
    Founder, iOS developer, Backend developer, Designer · Skedadel 2.0 suggested places to go all around the world and showed you all the Instagram photos taken there.
    Paper by FiftyThree's Book feature
    iOS developer · Worked on the app portion of Paper's new book feature (fiftythree.com/book). This collaboration between Moleskine and FiftyThree… · More lets you print a gorgeous physical copy of your Paper notebooks.
    Acompli 1.0
    iOS developer · Accompli is an advanced email app with calendar and file sharing support. Acompli was later acquired by Microsoft and re-branded as the… · More official Outlook app.
    Assist 1.0
    Chat with a local
    Founder, iOS Developer, Backend developer, Designer · Assist lets you ask a question about a city and you are connected with a local where you can chat… · More and they can send you place recommendations via chat.
    Popchat 1.0
    Create GIFs with your reaction to the news
    Everyday the Internet Gods feed us an overflowing supply of news.
    We react with everything from “meh” and “wtf” to “haha” and “fail”.
    Now Popchat… · More makes it easy to create an animated GIF combining the news with your reaction.
     
    Experience
    POPCHAT
    POPCHAT
    Founder
    Assist
    Exit
    Assist
    Founder & CTO 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)
    Built the Swift iOS front end which included a real time chat and push notifications on Amazon's SNS and integrations with Foursquare's API. Built the back end in Node/Firebase/Heroku.... more Built Swift iOS Admin apps to manage the community and conversations among people. Built web based Admin apps in Angular/Node/Firebase.
    Skedadel
    Skedadel
    Founder & CTO 2012 - 2014 (over 1 year)
    Built the Objective C iOS with push notification support. Built a responsive web front end. Built the backend using Rails/Postgres/Mongo/Redis/Heroku and included integrations... more with the Foursquare and Instagram APIs. Built a metrics system and metrics reporting apps in iOS and web. Built a responsive HTML website.
    Acompli
    Exit
    Acompli
    Senior iOS developer 2013 (5 months)
    Helped build the first version of Acompli's iOS email app which later became the Outlook app on iOS. Built the calendar interface, attachment viewing, the side to swipe functionality... more and parts of the message viewing UI.
    FiftyThree
    FiftyThree
    iOS contractor 2013 (about 1 month)
    Built the iOS side of Paper's new book feature (http://www.fiftythree.com/book) to order on demand physical notebooks of your Paper sketches. The interface included a custom... more collection view to select which pages to print as well controls to select the color of the book and previews to what the printed pages would look like.
    Zaarly
    Zaarly
    Director of Mobile 2011 - 2012 (over 1 year)
    Built & shipped 9 versions of the Zaarly iOS app which includes custom maps, push notifications and chat. Managed a team of iOS engineers. Managed contracting the initial... more Android app and the process of hiring in house Android engineers and migrating the app in house.
    Adobe Systems
    Adobe Systems
    Senior Computer Scientist 1994 - 2006 (almost 12 years)
    I was a cross platform (Macintosh/Windows) C++ desktop engineer on the original InDesign team. Shipped 5 major versions. Architected, designed and built the scripting API... more to InDesign. Led the conversion of InDesign to Xcode and the GCC compiler to allow InDesign to run on Intel based Macs.
    Apple
    Apple
    Apple Campus Rep at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena 1991 - 1993 (almost 2 years)
    Evangelized the Mac and helped students and faculty decide which Macs to buy and assisted them with any technical issues.
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    POPCHAT
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    Apple, Adobe Systems, Zaarly, Skedadel, Assist, FiftyThree, Acompli
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    About
    Achievements

    As CTO at Skedadel and Assist, architected and implemented the front and back end of several high quality iOS apps and helped w raise a $1.5M seed and $4M series A. Helped build the Acompli iOS app which was later acquired by Microsoft for over $200M. As director of mobile at Zaarly, built the core of the Zaarly iPhone app, managed the building of the Zaarly Android app. Created the iOS dev blog iDevRecipes.com. Was part of the core team that built and shipped the first 5 major versions on Adobe InDesign.

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    Skills
    iOS Development Product Development Leadership iPhone / iPad Development Node.js Firebase Back-End Development Front-End Development Ruby on Rails Javascript
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