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Gilbert Andrei FLOAREA
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Gilbert Andrei FLOAREA

IOS DEVELOPER
Bucharest

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Summary

Senior iOS Developer with 10+ years of experience delivering top-ranking apps and driving significant revenue growth. Recognized for innovative development techniques, elegant architecture, and creating features that set industry trends. Experienced in mentoring and onboarding developers, building high-performing teams, and fostering diverse talent. Strong communicator and collaborative leader, adept at working with cross-functional teams and customers to deliver impactful solutions. Proven track record in leadership, organizational development, and inspiring teams to excel in fast-paced, creative environments.


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Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Life360
03.2025 - 08.2025


  • Company Overview: Life360 is a San Mateo-based technology company and mobile app that provides real-time location sharing, safety features, and social connectivity for families, with over 80 million monthly active users and growing premium subscriptions.


  • Designed and implemented the 'Circles' feature, enabling families and groups to connect in private spaces.
  • Developed new circle creation flows, including onboarding, invitations, and role assignments.
  • Built in-app prompts and guidance to improve discoverability and adoption of Circles, increasing user engagement.


  • My personal best gain: I gained deeper experience in onboarding flows and prompts, understanding how small UX decisions drive user engagement and retention.



Senior Software Engineer

Grubhub, Inc
08.2022 - 03.2025


  • Company Overview: Grubhub is part of Just Eat Takeaway.com (LSE: JET, AMS: TKWY, NASDAQ: GRUB), a leading global online food delivery marketplace. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms, and an improved delivery experience. Grubhub features more than 300,000 restaurant partners in over 4,000 U.S. locations. locations. locations. cities. Provided nearly $9 billion in gross food sales to local takeout restaurants in 2020. Processes more than 745,000 daily orders. Serves 32 million monthly active diners, sent more than $4 billion in total tips to drivers to date.


  • I was one of the many iOS developers on this project. I was grouped into small teams (2-5 members), and I was assigned to lead a small group of three. After one year, I became the staff engineer of the Search module of the app.
  • Worked and created different internal frameworks, each having one of the teams mentioned above as the owner. The process was straightforward: if you add code to other frameworks, you need approvals from the owners of those frameworks, making the codebase extremely secure and failproof.
  • I added many experiments in the app. An experiment was essentially a new feature requested by the board to test different implications, such as gross gain, time spent, acceptance of the feature, demand in the market, visual updates, and ease of use.
  • Adding analytics for everything in the new features, and even rewriting some to standardize the flow with new demands from the BE and Analytics teams. Added unit tests for each piece of code added; the app had a code coverage of 99% and tested even the API calls and the events sending flows.
  • Participated in bug bashes to speed up the delivery process and help make it flawless. Given suggestions on task implementations, and participated in task creation and estimation.


  • My personal best gain: I perfected my knowledge of working on a framework-based project.


Senior Software Engineer

John Lewis
03.2020 - 08.2022


  • Company Overview: John Lewis & Partners is a British brand of high-end department stores operating throughout the United Kingdom, with concessions also located in Ireland. The brand sells general merchandise as part of the John Lewis Partnership.


  • Led the redesign of the Product Details Page, modernizing both architecture and UI/UX, with a focus on scalability and performance.
  • Implemented social proof features (ratings, reviews, badges) that boosted conversion and revenue while maintaining a seamless user experience.
  • Standardized EU energy label compliance across the app, ensuring regulatory alignment.
  • Hosted weekly tech talks to guide the team through transitioning from UIKit to SwiftUI components.
  • Developed backend middleware using Vapor (Swift on server) to implement new functionalities, enabling data aggregation and customization before delivery to the iOS apps, improving performance, scalability, and alignment with client needs.


  • My personal best gain: I gathered insights on working with multi-SKU products and how a product can actually be unique.


Strategy Consultant

SiriusXM
09.2019 - 03.2020


  • Company Overview: SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America. Reaching a combined monthly audience of approximately 150 million listeners, SiriusXM offers a broad range of content for listeners everywhere they tune in, with a diverse mix of live, on-demand, and curated programming across music, talk, news, and sports. Revenue: $9B, Net income: $1.21B, ~34M subscribers, ~150M listeners.


  • Applied music industry expertise to expand business opportunities and design user-specific interactive flows, improving audience engagement and retention.
  • Joined design and architecture meetings to accelerate delivery, align cross-functional teams, and optimize development workflows.
  • Actively participated in agile ceremonies to stay connected with the development side, resulting in increased efficiency and stronger collaboration across teams.
  • Developed the CarPlay version of the app, extending SiriusXM’s presence into the automotive space, and enhancing the in-car user experience.
  • Partnered with analytics teams to define KPIs and measure retention improvements, ensuring product decisions were data-driven.


  • My personal best gain: I was happy to help scale and customize an already huge app, and learn how the big boys play.


Senior Software Engineer

V-BANK
12.2018 - 09.2019


  • Company Overview: Germany's leading bank for asset managers and their clients. As the very first bank in Germany, V-BANK is focused, with its business model, on securities account management and on securities settlement for independent asset managers and selected clients, such as family offices. We have managed to become the market leader within only a few years.


  • I worked for V-Bank in Germany. The main goals were to deliver an investing app that could be used by both the asset managers and the users.
  • Implemented security layers to keep the app data and all requests safe from a man-in-the-middle attack, and other attacks.
  • Added SSL injections directly from a pipeline in order to renew certificates on the fly, without having to disrupt the users.
  • Maintained pipelines with multiple app environments to have a good overview of all the app versions, and deliver them to various sets of users.
  • I imposed my best coding standards and had over 65% code coverage using both unit tests and UI tests.
  • I built the app from the ground up, and then we added more team members to deliver more specific features to make the app more user-friendly.


  • My personal best gain: I defined my security skills and banking know-how.


Senior iOS Developer

Sony Music
12.2016 - 12.2018


  • Company Overview: Now That's What I Call Music. A series of various artists' compilation albums was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Sony Music and Universal Music (Universal/Sony Music), which began in 1983. The most successful volume to date is 1999's Now That's What I Call Music! 44, which sold 2.3 million copies, remains the biggest-selling various artists' compilation album in the UK. 2008's Now That's What I Call Music! 70 sold 383,002 units in the first week of sales, the biggest-ever first-week sale of any Now album.


  • I worked for the Sony and Universal partnership in the UK. The main goals were to deliver a high-quality stream on demand, to have the best possible user experience, and to keep retention as high as possible.
  • Hosted code review meetings to detect weaknesses in contributed program content, avoiding bug detection by users.
  • Researched and selected APIs for integration into development projects.
  • Translated basic design plans into full iOS app frameworks, delegating project components to appropriate team members.
  • Applied focus on end-user experience improvements to enhance overall adoption rates, surpassing the client’s retention target.
  • Worked with stakeholders such as the PO and Marketing Directors to find collaborative ways to deliver business value for all parties.
  • Maintained ongoing education on contemporary mobile app development techniques to expedite programming efforts, and preserve cutting-edge status within the music market.
  • Researched, designed, and implemented the application for information identification, extraction, analysis, and indexing.
  • Built an outstanding and dynamic team of software engineers and developers, which significantly boosted the overall success of the organization. Included visible, but unobtrusive, ad placement opportunities within the app, increasing revenue potential without disrupting usage.
  • Integrated existing third-party APIs to shorten development times and add interactivity with the app.
  • Added a premium subscription variant of the app that further increased the revenue and delivered a high-quality stream to the users.


  • My personal best gain was being the team lead of the project, and with a fantastic group of people, we managed to achieve 600k daily active users, with over 300k premium subscribers. It was named the fastest-growing app in the UK music industry, competing with the giants Apple Music and Spotify.


iOS Developer

IBM
09.2014 - 12.2016


  • Company Overview: BSH is the leading home appliance manufacturer in Europe. In 2020, it reached record sales of €13.9 billion.


  • I worked for Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH in the Apple and IBM partnership. The main goal was to focus on the digital transformation of the client databases.
  • The app's benefits were to help Bosch and Siemens technicians get to the owners' homes and repair their home appliances.
  • Applied Agile software development methodology to elevate final products and streamline development efforts.
  • Instructed junior developers on the use of the Swift programming language, creating a collaborative learning environment to onboard personnel.
  • Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams, and infrastructure specialists to deliver high-availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
  • Applied Apple's Swift development language to code native apps for the iOS platform.
  • Designed user experience frameworks applicable to multiple screen sizes, including both iPads and iPhones.
  • Followed Apple's Human Interface guidelines to create products aligned with iOS UI norms.
  • The app was recognized with the Solution of the Year award by Apple and IBM at the Munich Tech Hub.


  • My personal best gain: My main responsibilities were to write clean code and implement specific tasks in a fully agile environment, find neat solutions to problems, and, as time passed, I became one of the main developers in a team of 12 iOS developers, and I even traveled to the client HQ in Germany on a monthly basis.


Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Academia De Studii Economice
Bucharest
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti
Bucharest
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Petru Rares National College
Piatra Neamt
04.2001 -

Skills

Swift

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Websites

Interests

Have always been intrigued by the design of spaces and buildings, so that comes hand in hand with traveling I got to experience a lot of great building architecture, but I still get excited every time I see a well-planned city

Accomplishments

  • Was the main speaker at iOS dev talks with over 500 guests
  • One app I worked on managed to win solution of the year in Germany
  • Achieved over 600k users on an app developed from scratch

BOOKS

  • Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering
  • Design Patterns by Tutorials
  • Push Notifications by Tutorials
  • Advanced iOS App Architecture
  • Machine Learning by Tutorials
  • Core Data by Tutorials
  • Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift
  • SwiftUI by Tutorials
  • Concurrency by Tutorials
  • IOS Animations by Tutorials

MOTIVATION

  • Meeting deadlines, targets or goals
  • Mentoring and coaching others
  • Learning new things
  • Coming up with creative ideas to improve something, or make something new
  • Analysing complex data in order to draw clear and simple conclusions
  • Working well as part of a team
  • Leading a team to success
  • Completing a difficult project, and seeing it through to the end
  • Spotting flaws and errors so as to make sure the end result of a project is as good as possible
  • Finding a way to solve a problem, or overcome a challenge

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Quote

The individual taking on a task bears the responsibility to find the best methods and strategies to complete it successfully
Gilbert L. Laws

Languages

English
Full Professional
French
Limited Working

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Life360
03.2025 - 08.2025

Senior Software Engineer

Grubhub, Inc
08.2022 - 03.2025

Senior Software Engineer

John Lewis
03.2020 - 08.2022

Strategy Consultant

SiriusXM
09.2019 - 03.2020

Senior Software Engineer

V-BANK
12.2018 - 09.2019

Senior iOS Developer

Sony Music
12.2016 - 12.2018

iOS Developer

IBM
09.2014 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Academia De Studii Economice
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti
04.2001 -

High School Diploma -

Petru Rares National College
04.2001 -

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