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Zac Ji

Zac Ji

Senior iOS & Indie Developer

Hi! I am Zac (Hongbo Ji). I have 10+ years of professional iOS native engineering experience, focusing primarily on the Apple ecosystem (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS), alongside cross-stack skills in Android, Flutter, and modern Web engineering (Astro/Vue/CSS).

Being fluent in Chinese, English, and Korean enables me to easily localize, design, and ship my apps to global markets. Currently, I am dedicated to creating streaming, utility, and AI applications, aiming to craft highly fluid, thoughtfully designed software for users worldwide.

Skills

iOS Core

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

Performance

  • Xcode Instruments Diagnostics
  • Memory Leak Debugging
  • App Launch Speed Tuning
  • Core Animation Frame Rates
  • Modular & Native Architecture

Engineering

  • Astro / Vue / CSS Modules
  • Node.js / Cloudflare Workers
  • Git & GitHub Actions CI/CD
  • App Store Review Guidelines
Experience
2026.01 - Present

iOS Indie Developer & Creator

Full-time indie creator focusing on Apple ecosystem and AI integrations. Designed and released 4 major applications:

  • Lumen Noise: Clock + ambient soundscapes (iOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS)
  • LeafAid: AI-powered plant caretaker and diagnostic assistant
  • Flux IPTV: Universal playlist player with local latency checking
  • Aibrary: Experimental app utilizing Sentry self-healing loops
2023.03 - 2025.12

Coupang (Seoul) · Senior iOS Engineer

Senior engineer at Coupang iOS Core Platform team, maintaining foundational frameworks for the largest e-commerce App in Korea. Led modularization and migrated core modules to native Swift. Operated fully in English and Korean.

2017.10 - 2022.11

ByteDance · iOS Engineer

Developed features for TikTok international e-commerce. Led optimization on Lynx dynamic page framework. Improved startup and load metrics by over 100% using container pools and pre-rendering. Formulated coding guidelines and worked on multi-platform Flutter/Android setups.

2016.03 - 2017.10

ShengHuo Info Tech · iOS Engineer

Shipped "DouBai Live" streaming e-commerce iOS app from scratch. Built video player flows, integrated HLS streaming, and handled WeChat Mini Program development.

2015.05 - 2015.11

Kumho Software (South Korea) · Frontend Engineer

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

2010.09 - 2014.06

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.

Connect

I am open for iOS/macOS custom development projects, performance optimization consulting, or general technical advising. Feel free to reach out.

jihongboo@icloud.com