Summary
Rogelio Kobashi is a Senior iOS Engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years in software engineering and a decade focused on iOS, currently leading mobile efforts at Drivemode while co-running PaladiNet. He designs and manages cross-functional teams and design systems, shipping production apps using SwiftUI, Combine and reactive/functional patterns across complex areas like multithreading, memory management and push notifications. Experienced across the full mobile lifecycle—from architecture (MVVM, VIPER, coordinators) and CI/CD (Jenkins, Fastlane, Bitrise) to testing and App Store releases—he pairs hands-on implementation with system-level thinking. His background includes leading iOS teams at startups and enterprise work at Rakuten and IBM, and he brings practical backend familiarity (Vapor/Node, MongoDB, MySQL) that helps bridge mobile-to-server integrations. Notably, he balances modern Swift tooling with legacy support (CocoaPods, provisioning/signing) and a history of applying media and real-time frameworks like MediaPipe and StreamChat in production.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Systems Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia
Spanish, English