Gergely Orosz
Writing at mobile.dev
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarGergely Orosz is a seasoned software engineering leader and prolific writer with 13 years of experience building high-scale products at companies like Uber, Skyscanner, and Skype, now authoring The Pragmatic Engineer—Substack’s top tech newsletter. He has led cross-platform payments and wallet teams that handled billions in annual transactions, shipping global features and architecting resilient systems under rapid growth. Gergely blends hands-on engineering (including mobile UI work like enhancements to the SkyFloatingLabelTextField Swift library) with people leadership, product thinking, and platform design. As an advisor and angel investor he focuses on developer tooling, platform engineering, and mobile quality, helping startups marry velocity with maintainability. He also authors books and tooling to help engineers grow technically and in career practice, and quietly champions practical, evidence-based engineering advice. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs big-company scale experience with a maker’s instinct from earlier indie app successes.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
textfield10
swift10
user-interface10
silverlight10
ui-design10
charts9
windows-phone9
ios9
interface-builder7
javascript6
progress-bar6
devexpress6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Skyscanner/SkyFloatingLabelTextField
Dec 2015 - May 2016
A beautiful and flexible text field control implementation of "Float Label Pattern". Written in Swift.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 164 commits, 49 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gergely primarily contributed to the UI elements of the SkyFloatingLabelTextField library. They focused on enhancing the visual appearance and user interaction of the text field. Specifically, they added the ability to customize line and title colors, and also set custom fonts for different labels, improving the overall styling of the control. The user also made modifications to the example project, including the addition of an icon.
swiftinterface-buildercocoapodstextfield
gergelyorosz/gergelyorosz
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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