Ellen Shapiro

@designatednerd
iOS + Android + Lasers + Cats + Travel
Madison/WI
she/her

Mobile Dev

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iOS + Android + GraphQL + Glowforge + Cats + Travel

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I'm open to

guest lecturing,

live streaming,

speaking at events,

speaking on podcasts,

and speaking on twitter spaces.

Contact Me

Resume

Apr 2023 - Present

iOS Engineer, Pixite

Jun 2022 - Feb 2023

iOS Engineer, Gusto

Jun 2019 - Feb 2022

Mobile Developer Advocate, Apollo GraphQL

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Portfolio

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Airtag Keychain

Giant cardboard squirrel

Spoke at Server-Side Swift

Things I’ve built

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Fun fact: Doubling the size of all the sides of a 3D object 8x’s the volume and uses a hell of a lot more cardboard.

Trying to go through a bunch of my thinnest cardboard and I was messing around with whether to actually set the height of the cardboard to 0.07in (actual average size of my thin cardboard) or 0.125...

Turned this model from Thingiverse into a big owl statue that I gave to my sister in law who is a teacher. Also enjoyed the intermediate state it got to when I only had the top and bottom put toget...

Podcasts

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Analyzed the results of Keynote Poker the previous week on Stacktrace Episode 89 with John Sundell, Gui Rambo, and Kaya Thomas

Was on Stacktrace Episode 88: Keynote Poker with John Sundell, Gui Rambo, and Kaya Thomas.

On the App Force 1 Podcast with Jeroen Leenarts talking about the Apollo iOS SDK

Was on Episode 105: Navigating DocC of the Empower Apps podcast with Leo Dion

Speaking engagements

Spoke on the GraphQL for Non-JS Languages panel at GraphQL Galaxy.

Spoke on the Client-Side Libraries panel at GraphQL Galaxy.

Videos

Spoke at iOS Conf SG about Scripting in Swift. This wound up being my only in-person conference of 2020. Oh, the Before Times.

Gave a talk at 360iDev on about DocC IN THREE WHOLE DIMENSIONS! Very, very sad this wound up being my only in-person conference of 2021, but so glad we could make this happen.

Was a guest on Episode 2 of Swiftly Speaking with Paul Hudson. Spoiler: Everyone was a winner in the bet I made on Twitter about swearing: I managed to not swear for over two hours(!!), but gave a ...