About Me

About Me

Zac Ji

Zac Ji

Senior iOS & Indie Developer

Hi! I am Zac (Hongbo Ji). I have 10+ years of professional iOS native engineering experience, alongside cross-platform skills in Android, Flutter, and modern Web engineering.

Being fluent in Chinese, English, and Korean enables me to easily localise, design, and ship my apps (like Flux IPTV) to global markets. Currently, I am dedicated to creating streaming and utility apps within the Apple ecosystem.

Technical Skills

iOS Core

  • Swift & SwiftUI
  • UIKit / Auto Layout
  • Structured Concurrency
  • Combine & Reactive Prog
  • SwiftData & SQLite Storage

Optimization

  • Xcode Instruments
  • Memory Leak Diagnostics
  • App Launch Time Tuning
  • Core Animation Frame Rates

Fullstack

  • Astro / Vue / CSS Modules
  • Node.js / Cloudflare Workers
  • Git & GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • App Store Connect Review Flow

Career & Indie Timeline

Jan 2026 - Present

iOS Indie Development & Global Shipping

Full-time indie creator focusing on Apple ecosystem apps and AI workflows. Shipped 4 major applications:

  • Lumen Noise: Clock + ambient soundscapes (iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS)
  • LeafAid: AI-powered plant caretaker and leaf diagnostic companion
  • Flux IPTV: Universal playlist player with local latency status checking
  • Aibrary: Experimental app utilizing Sentry crash self-healing loops
Mar 2023 - Dec 2025

Coupang (Seoul) · Senior iOS Engineer

Worked in the Core Platform team maintaining base frameworks for the largest e-commerce App in Korea. Led modularization and migrated legacy components to modern Swift. Operated in a fully English and Korean bilingual working environment.

Oct 2017 - Nov 2022

ByteDance · iOS Engineer

Developed TikTok international e-commerce features. Led optimization on Lynx dynamic page framework. Improved startup metrics and page loading speeds by **over 100%** using caching, pre-rendering, and container pools. Also shipped cross-stack Flutter/Android apps and established code reviews.

Mar 2016 - Oct 2017

ShengHuo Info Tech · iOS Engineer

Shipped "DouBai Live" streaming e-commerce iOS app from scratch. Optimized video latency and HLS streaming protocols with Tencent Cloud Live SDKs.

May 2015 - Nov 2015

Kumho Software (South Korea) · Frontend Engineer

Maintained internal enterprise portals. Worked with classic Web frameworks including ASP and .NET.

Sep 2010 - Jun 2014

Nanjing Xiaozhuang & Woosong University · Software Engineering B.S.

Majored in Software Engineering. Selected as an exchange student to Woosong University in South Korea, completing bilingual coursework in system architectures and databases.

Let's Connect

I am open for iOS/macOS custom development projects, performance optimization consulting, or general technical advising.

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