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Valentins Kukjans

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Lead iOS Engineer at WeightWatchers, helping scale an app with 3M+ daily active users.

United Arab Emirates
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At WeightWatchers, I help scale an app with 3M+ daily active users, a 4.8★ rating, and a top 30 ranking in Health & Fitness. I focus on SwiftUI, Combine, and modular architecture for high-performance mobile experiences.

At VSCO®, I architected the Spaces module, which had 4.4M+ daily active users, and helped increase engagement by 26% and premium signups by 34%. Earlier, I was a core developer of Cornerstone Learn, where I led offline-first architecture design and authentication flows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

WeightWatchers logoWE
Current

Lead iOS Engineer

Dec 2021 - Present (4 years 11 months)

Worked as Lead iOS Engineer at WeightWatchers.

VSCO® logoVS

Senior iOS Engineer

Dec 2022 - Jul 2024 (1 year 7 months)

Worked as Senior iOS Engineer at VSCO®.

WeightWatchers logoWE

Senior Software Engineer iOS

Aug 2021 - Dec 2021 (4 months)

Worked as Senior Software Engineer iOS at WeightWatchers.

Cornerstone OnDemand logoCO

Senior iOS Developer

Apr 2019 - Nov 2021 (2 years 7 months)

• Core developer of Cornerstone Learn, a Netflix-style learning platform for enterprise clients.
• Led offline-first architecture design and authentication flows (PIN, OAuth, 3rd party SSO).
• Implemented video streaming, assessments, QR check-ins, and event modules with SwiftUI and Combine.
• Top 20 on Appstore in the business category.

Farmers Insurance logoFI

Senior iOS Developer

Farmers Insurance

May 2018 - May 2019 (1 year)

• Work on new features ,bug fixing, code refactoring
• Unit tested the code
• Responsible for UIAutomation with (XCUITest), helped the team in setting up CI/CD solution
• Maintenance of Continuous Integration with Jenkins
• Work on white label app for another insurance company
• Top 50 on Appstore in the business category.

Farmers Insurance logoFI

iOS Developer

Farmers Insurance

Jun 2017 - May 2018 (11 months)

Worked as iOS Developer at Farmers Insurance.

Fandango logoFA

iOS Developer

Mar 2015 - Jun 2017 (2 years 3 months)

• Shipped major versions of the Fandango app (Swift 3), enhancing UI responsiveness and reducing crash rates by ~30%.
• Collaborated with backend teams on efficient network calls and automated integration testing (Jenkins)

TJX Europe logoTE

iOS Developer

TJX Europe

Oct 2013 - Mar 2015 (1 year 5 months)

• Worked extensively on app yielding large increases in user engagement and customer growth through multiple A/B tested features
• Worked with UIKit Framework for development and maintenance
• Implemented UI screens and controlls with Swift
• Used Core data Framework for local storage purpose in SQLite
• Collaborated with designers to create clean interfaces and simple, intuitive interactions and

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) logoVU

Test Automation Engineer iOS

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK)

Oct 2012 - Oct 2013 (1 year)

• Created reliable and maintainable automation tests with Selenium WebDriver with Java and Cucumber(BDD) for web application and iOS mobile app.
• Developed Test Plans, Test Cases and Test Scripts, Test data, Test Summary Report
• Conducted Functional, Integration, System, Regression, Smoke, Positive and Backend Testing
• Involved in Status calls, Business and Technical design meetings
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Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

AA

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Nov 2020 · Expired Nov 2023

TR

Triplebyte

Triplebyte Certified iOS Engineer

Aug 2020

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