Resume

Driven & experienced iOS engineer and leader looking for the opportunity to solve chal-

lenging problems in new and innovative ways.

Experience

DIRECTOR OF MOBILE, RAYA, NASHVILLE, TN — 2022-2023

• Managed a team of 14 iOS engineers and managers

• Lead the technical and team direction for Raya’s ﬂagship iOS app

• Worked with product and project management teams to create an effective SDLC

• Worked with leadership to create a more effective hiring process

• Lead the transformation of Raya’s CI to be more streamlined and scalable

• Lead large technical initiatives such as modularizing the app

• Technologies - GitHub Actions, Swift Package Manager, Cocoapods, AWS, Git, Xcode,

Objective-C, Swift, Fastlane, Bash

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, IOS, IHEARTRADIO, NASHVILLE, TN — 2020-2022

• Managed a team of 20+ iOS engineers and managers

• Managed relationships with external contracting partners for the iOS team

• Managed iHeart’s Apple Developer Accounts

• Lead the technical and team direction for iHeartRadio’s ﬂagship iOS application

• Worked with product and project management teams to create an effective SDLC

• Assisted in feature development of iHeartRadio’s ﬂagship application

• Assisted in architectural decisions for iHeartRadio’s ﬂagship application

• Lead engineering efforts for iHeart’s new iOS app, Podtastic!

• Technologies - Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Swift Package Manager, Cocoapods, AWS, Git,

Xcode, Objective-C, Swift, Fastlane, Python, Bash

LEAD IOS ENGINEER, NC2MEDIA & LONELY PLANET, NASHVILLE, TN — 2017-2020

• Lead engineering efforts for SDK and a companion app for the SDK

• Built iOS frameworks for use across all iOS products

• Assisted in technical efforts for all iOS projects

• Assisted in Android SDK development

• Assisted in web development

• Assisted in backend development

Jake Elrod

[email protected]

770-361-4827

http://jakeelrod.com

• Technologies - Jenkins, Cocoapods, AWS, Git, Android Studio, Xcode, IntelliJ, Kotlin, Go,

Java, Javascript, Semantic-UI, React, Objective-C, Swift, Bash

MANAGER & PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, ASURION, NASHVILLE, TN — 2014-2017

• Lead engineering efforts for US & Philippines iOS Engineers

• Managed US-based iOS engineers distributed between CA and TN

• Owner/Manager of Asurion’s Apple Developer & iTunesConnect Accounts

• Assisted in technical efforts for all projects (3-6 active projects at any given time)

• Built proprietary iOS frameworks for use across all iOS products

• Built a new CI process for all of the iOS applications

• Built custom controls (pie chart, checkbox, progress circle, etc) for our projects

• Assisted in the development on an Android application

• Received formal security training in penetration testing & mobile defense

• Technologies - Objective-C, Swift, Bamboo, Jenkins, Bash, Cocoapods, Python, Java

(Android & RESTful services), AWS, SVN, Git, IntelliJ, Android Studio,Xcode, PyCharm,

Terraform

PROGRAMMER ANALYST, NFIB, NASHVILLE, TN — 2012-2014

• Responsible for iOS applications

• Built CI process for the iOS applications

• Assisted in the development of an Android application

• Assisted in the development our of mobile web application

• Assisted in maintenance of our database

• Technologies - Objective-C, Java, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET MVC, T-SQL, Bash, Visual Studio,

Eclipse, Xcode, Jenkins, TFS, Git

INNOVATION ENGINEER, C7 TECHNOLOGIES, NASHVILLE, TN — 2011-2012

• Responsible for maintaining and improving backend services

• Assisted in development of front-end applications

• Developed an ASP.NET web application for administration of the system

• Technologies - C#, WCF, WPF, ASP.NET, PL-SQL, Visual Studio, TFS

Education