Hermés Piqué
Director Of Engineering, Gaming & Metaverse at YouTube
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHermés Piqué is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years building consumer-facing products and platform-scale experiences across mobile, AR/VR, gaming and the metaverse. Currently Director of Engineering for Gaming & Metaverse at YouTube, he previously scaled Meta Quest’s app store to its first billion in revenue and drove mass adoption of Spark AR at Facebook. A hands-on former iOS engineer and open-source contributor, his work includes notable contributions to popular projects like Haneke image caching and in-app purchase libraries, with a strong focus on performance, concurrency and testability. He blends product intuition from founding Robot Media and Barcelona.IO with enterprise execution at Meta/Facebook, repeatedly turning experimental tech—AR, video sharing, web3—into mainstream engagement. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs technical depth in mobile systems with strategic privacy and integrity stewardship. Colleagues describe him as a builder who surfaces practical solutions for creators to deepen fan relationships in novel, platform-scale ways.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at Juan XXIIIBachelor of Science (5 years), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (5 years), Computer Engineering at Universidad de la República
English, Spanish, French, Catalan
Stackoverflow
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android
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camera
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singleton
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extern
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ios
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macos
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Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
uiimage10
imagecaching10
uitest10
caching10
uiimageview10
objective-c10
ios10
thread-safety10
testing10
xctest10
storekit10
singleton10
file-cache10
swift10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robotmedia/RMStore
Jul 2013 - Jan 2016
A lightweight iOS library for In-App Purchases
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:322 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hermés primarily contributed to the development of an iOS library for In-App Purchases (IAP). The commits involve the creation and modification of classes and methods related to handling payments, product requests, receipt verification, and download management. The user implemented features to support transaction management, and added methods for managing downloads, along with the UI aspects for the demo app.
in-app-purchaseios-library
hpique/SwiftSingleton
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015
An exploration of the Singleton pattern in Swift
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Hermés primarily focused on updating and improving the test suite for the Singleton pattern implementation. They updated existing tests to reflect changes in the project's Beta versions, and refactored test code to use more modern and accurate assertion methods, and added multithreading checks. This involved modifying multiple test files, focusing on ensuring the correctness and thread safety of the Singleton pattern implementation.
singletonswift
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