Jimmy Hickman
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJimmy Hickman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building scalable mobile and platform systems, currently shaping architecture and delivery at Rakuten Rewards. He excels at turning complex ideas into modular, maintainable systems—recently leading a modular in-app browser rollout and CI/CD modernization that sped feature delivery across teams. Known as an approachable, execution-focused leader, he mentors engineers and drives cross-team alignment on technical strategy and quality. Jimmy blends deep mobile expertise (iOS/Swift/Objective-C) with full lifecycle product experience from founding small agencies to shipping enterprise SaaS. Off the clock he channels the same builder’s mindset into filmmaking, woodworking, and Raspberry Pi–driven light and sound shows, a creative practice that fuels his systems thinking and unconventional problem solving. Based in Petaluma, he’s motivated by opportunities that combine technical challenge with tangible user impact.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
cocoapods10
uiview9
json-data9
swift8
carthage8
json8
json-parser8
swiftyjson7
home-assistant5
ios3
ui-components3
swiftui-list2
pull-to-refresh1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Appmazo/AppmazoFoundation
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
Collection of extensions and tools for common app development techniques.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 8 months
techniquesandroidkotlinextensionsios
JimmyJammed/NWSTokenView
Nov 2018 - Aug 2019
NWSTokenView is a flexible UIView subclass that shows a collection of objects in a similar manner to the Messages app.
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 9 months
uiview
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