Daniel Inoa Daniel Inoa iOS Engineer

Professional work

Independent iOS Development

Since July 2024, I have designed, built, and published independent iOS products through Inoa Labs. I shipped Timegres, a paid, local-first iPhone planner for capacity-aware scheduling.

Tinder

Spent four years across Core, Profile, and Revenue teams, combining consumer product delivery with app architecture, UI systems, payments, and developer tooling.

  • Revenue Helped design credit-card payment processing as an alternative to In-App Purchase, then built middleware to observe and process dynamically generated Tinder consumables.
  • Profile Rebuilt all of Settings and Edit Profile from scratch, migrating Objective-C to declarative Swift on Form. Also built Tinder U surfaces, sharing, a Snapchat Stories integration, and AVFoundation photo and video tools.
  • Core Pitched, built, and maintained Form, later adopted for the full Settings and Edit Profile rebuild. Contributed to DISCOVER, Auto Layout tooling, GDPR features, platform tooling, and modularization that improved compile times.

Farmers Insurance

Worked on Farmers' consumer iOS app and Bellhop, an internal campus operations app, while improving architecture and engineering practices across the team.

  • Architecture Re-architected networking, caching, and UI layers, and advocated design patterns that improved scalability across the consumer app.
  • Bellhop Designed and built workflows for conference-room booking, employee lookup, and technical support across company campuses.
  • Team Introduced test-driven and Playground-driven development, and mentored junior developers and hackathon attendees.

Friends of The Web

Built client iOS apps across healthcare, games, productivity, and higher education, moving between end-to-end product delivery and framework-specific gameplay work.

  • Healthcare Led development of DrainIQ, helping post-surgical patients track and share drain measurements.
  • Games Co-developed Tall Chess and an unreleased strategy war game using Game Center and GameplayKit.
  • Client Apps Contributed to Reporter and the University of San Diego's Insight productivity apps.

Independent

Built and marketed URI Confessions end to end, creating an anonymous social app for University of Rhode Island students to share thoughts and ideas.

University of Rhode Island

Built the university's interactive campus map for faculty, staff, students, and visitors to find parking, buildings, and departments. Also developed RESTful APIs for internal applications used across university departments.

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