Yuta Ooka

Senior iOS Developer
1350061, Tokyo, JP.

About

Highly accomplished Senior iOS Developer with over 3 years of experience in building and scaling production-grade mobile applications. At LY Corporation, significantly improved the LINE messenger app by reducing iCloud backup error rates by 71% and boosting chat list scroll performance by 37%. Proven expertise in end-to-end product delivery, full-stack web development, and AWS infrastructure, with deep technical proficiency in Swift, Combine, Swift Concurrency, and SwiftData.

Work

CCFOLIA Inc.
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iOS Engineer

Freelance

Summary

Led solo development of an iOS application prototype, building the entire UI layer and integrating advanced APIs for secure content access and immersive UI.

Highlights

Led a two-month solo effort to deliver the first iOS application prototype, building the entire UI layer using SwiftUI and SwiftData.

Integrated swift-openapi-generator to auto-generate type-safe APIs, reducing boilerplate and enhancing development efficiency.

Implemented EPUB ingestion with AES-GCM encryption/decryption via CryptoKit, ensuring secure offline access to licensed content.

Adopted new APIs introduced in iOS 26, updating TabView and NavigationStack to align with platform changes and integrating Liquid Glass effects for a modern, immersive UI.

Sabab Inc.
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iOS Engineer

Freelance

Summary

Developed a fundraising prototype and led the creation of an iOS avatar-streaming app, securing significant pre-seed capital and resolving critical technical dependencies.

Highlights

Built a fundraising prototype that secured ¥30 Million (approximately $190K) in pre-seed capital for Sabab within three months.

Led development of an iOS avatar-streaming app utilizing SwiftUI and Live2D Cubism SDK.

Diagnosed and fixed build errors in AWS C HTTP, IO, and SDKUtils libraries, submitting patches upstream to enable clean builds for Swift developers.

LY Corp
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Senior iOS Engineer

Full-Time

Summary

Led key initiatives for the LINE messenger app, enhancing performance, reliability, and user experience for over 200 million monthly active users across Asia-Pacific.

Highlights

Re-wrote the iCloud backup module with Swift Concurrency, cutting backup-error rates by over 71% and increasing test coverage to 85% for improved reliability.

Led a team of four iOS engineers in redesigning the Chats list, shipping internal beta on schedule and gathering feedback from 300+ employees in the first week.

Mentored a newly onboarded senior iOS engineer, enabling on-schedule delivery of key components for the Chats-list redesign through pair-programming and targeted code reviews.

Boosted Chats-list scroll performance by 37% by migrating to UICollectionView Diffable Data Source with ID-only snapshots and enabling on-demand Core Data faulting.

Drove quality through weekly code reviews (averaging 15 PRs/week), preventing regression bugs, and mentored two junior engineers on test-driven development.

Led the secure key management system for the Premium Backup project, utilizing Keychain to store E2EE and master keys for end-to-end encrypted backup and restore.

Education

The University of Tokyo

Master of Engineering - MEng

Information Technology

The University of Tokyo

Bachelor of Engineering - BE

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Languages

English

Fluent

Japanese

Native

Skills

Programming

Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, Core Data, SwiftData, Swift Concurrency, XCTest, Swift Testing, Node.js, Vue.js, AWS, API Tooling, CryptoKit, Live2D Cubism SDK, TypeScript, Prisma ORM.