Greg de J
iOS+macOS Developer
UX Engineer
Indie App Developer
About
I'm a UX Engineer who thrives at the intersection of design and development, driven by my passion for quality software, Apple's ecosystem, and aesthetics.
I thrive on working with multidisciplinary teams, where designers maintain a clear vision and have the final say. I love obsessively iterating with them to refine user experiences that align with platform standards.
Equally, I find joy in collaborating with engineers to build elegant, consistent, and scalable codebases.
I believe outstanding products come from detail-oriented individuals who empathize across roles: designers mindful of platform nuances, and engineers who prioritize user experience over developer experience.
As an indie developer, I’ve channeled my passion for minimal, purposeful apps into Quiche Industries, my quirky brand for new ideas.
Work
Quiche Browser — iOS Developer
A highly customizable web browser designed for minimalists who desire a browsing experience tailored to their usage habits and aesthetic preferences.
25,000+ downloads.
4.9★ App Store average rating.
Featured on The Verge, MacStories, and Lifehacker.
Made the front page of Hacker News.
iA — iOS+macOS Engineer
I built the Web Sharing feature to package and publish iA Presenter and iA Writer documents as HTML websites, and rebuilt license management to enable editing access through one-time purchases or subscriptions.
Beam — macOS Engineer
Together with former Apple and Google rock stars, I contributed to the development of several features for a hybrid web browser and note editor app.
Appier — iOS Engineer
At the first Taiwanese unicorn company, I modernized an SDK integrated across more than 50 mobile apps. I implemented a new code architecture that boosted unit test coverage from 30% to 80%, introduced UI tests and snapshot tests, and rebuilt the entire CI/CD infrastructure and deployment process.
Quiche Reader — iOS+macOS Developer
A read-later app designed to help users fight infobesity, by removing the process of choosing articles to read, and helping them decluttering their reading queue.
4.7★ App Store average rating.
Featured on Lifehacker.
Google — UX/Web Engineer
As a key contributor to a framework utilized by both internal and external developers for constructing highly visible Google websites, I helped the Brand Studio team in converting the brand style guide into code and developing complex UI components.
In addition to building tools to enhance the developer workflow, I took the initiative to conceive, plan, and implement a comprehensive overhaul of the component infrastructure.
Through writing and reviewing code in compliance with Google's high standards, I learned that maintaining consistency in codebases and having developers adhere to a unified coding style significantly improves readability, scalability, maintenance, and debugging.