POPCHAT
Founder
Peter Boctor
Full stack developer, advanced iOS engineer, startup veteran, loves technology and building products
Full stack developer, advanced iOS engineer, startup veteran, loves technology and building products
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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.
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.
iOS Developer · Zaarly 1.5 introduced request examples, alerts for sellers and a way to negotiate the price prior to accepting the request.
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 switched from a request model to a marketplace were sellers listed their products and services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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Founder & CTO
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
Founder & CTO
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.
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Acompli
Senior iOS developer
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.
iOS contractor
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
Director of Mobile
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
Senior Computer Scientist
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 Campus Rep at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
Evangelized the Mac and helped students and faculty decide which Macs to buy and assisted them with any technical issues.
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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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