Elle Sullivan
Staff Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolElle Sullivan is a Staff Software Engineer and former engineering manager with 11 years of experience specializing in iOS and macOS development, currently shaping privacy-first mobile experiences at DuckDuckGo from Ontario, Canada. She has led feature work and significant refactors on the DuckDuckGo iOS app—migrating to Swift Package Manager, modernizing networking with URLSessionDataTasks, and adding UI touches like fire button animations and autofill—while contributing unit tests and experiments. Her background spans consumer and growth-focused mobile engineering at Deliveroo and earlier mobile development roles, combining hands-on feature delivery with team leadership. Elle’s MEng in Computer Science from the University of Southampton underpins a pragmatic approach to shipping maintainable, user-centered apps, and she brings a knack for finding elegant refactors that reduce technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (12)
swift10
swift-package-manager10
ios9
unit-testing9
objective-c9
duckduckgo8
autofill8
android7
android-developer7
android-developers7
privacy7
mobile7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/iOS
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
DuckDuckGo iOS Application
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 183 reviews, 356 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Elle primarily focused on developing features and refactoring code for the DuckDuckGo iOS application. Their contributions included migrating to Swift Package Manager, refactoring the networking layer to use URLSessionDataTasks, and updating various dependencies such as Lottie and OHHTTPS. The user also worked on UI-related tasks, such as the fire button animations and adding the new autofill features to the app. In addition, the user also contributed to unit tests and experimentations.
ios-applicationduckduckgoprivacyprivate-searchprivate-browsing
duckduckgo/DesignResourcesKit
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 7 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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