Luke Solomon

2023-09-01 —

Highlights

• Co-founded meetmimir.com with a partner; led product and engineering across full-stack web work before winding down operations.
• Maintain side projects used by hundreds across 3 websites, a Chrome Extension, and two iOS applications.
• Built a Swift Compiler Explorer (SwiftSyntax, Vapor, D3.js) that visualizes Swift's compilation pipeline through AST, SIL, LLVM IR, and assembly stages.
• Designed and built ManaDrain, a Chrome and Firefox extension that allows users to store trading cards across disparate websites into a unified cart.
• Shipped Bling Out My Deck (blingoutmydeck.com), a Next.js/TypeScript web app that allows players to see what the most expensive version of their trading card deck would look like.
• Published and maintain treachery.games, a fully featured companion iOS app and website for playing a popular variant of Magic: the Gathering, used by hundreds every week.
• Launched Claudius, an OSX application that allows a user to easily track their Claude Code usage in their menu bar. Also allows users to display this information on their Tidbyt, a popular LED display.
• Built The Lazer Dragon Workout Experience, a fun workout tracking application with an 80s, disco/retro styling.

2022-06-01 — 2023-01-31

Highlights

• Overhauled the host-to-guest handoff flow, streamlining a critical multi-step user experience and improving reliability through targeted photo caching.
• Redesigned the camera and photo upload flow used for filing insurance claims, lifting the rate of successful claim submissions and directly protecting host revenue.

2020-11-01 — 2022-05-31

Highlights

• Owned the creation and integration of an internal iOS framework built on HealthKit and CoreData, used as foundational infrastructure across multiple unreleased health applications.
• Built unreleased applications using SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, Combine, CoreData, HealthKit, and CloudKit, working under tight design and privacy constraints typical of Apple's health products.

2019-11-01 — 2020-03-31

Highlights

• Re-architected carousel views across the Yelp app to elegantly handle single-item states, improving the experience on lower-density content surfaces and reducing visual clutter.
• Redesigned and shipped Business Stories; A/B tests confirmed sustained increases in user engagement.

2018-03-01 — 2019-07-31

Highlights

• Drove user growth and engagement on a native iOS app serving millions of young readers through a series of A/B-tested features.
• Improved subscription conversion and customer LTV by redesigning the subscription onboarding flow.
• Lifted reading and viewing engagement time by overhauling the book reader and video player experiences.
• Led major content-browsing redesigns, testing multiple layouts and producing sustained engagement gains across cohorts.
• Migrated and refactored substantial portions of the codebase from Objective-C to Swift while extending full iPad support, partnering closely with Design, QA, and PM to hit sprint commitments.

2017-03-01 — 2018-02-28

Highlights

• Led a 2-month intermediate iOS course in Oakland for 10 students — every student shipped an app to the App Store.
• Taught three beginner iOS courses in Tokyo and Osaka over a month abroad; managed instructor team, daily operations, and curriculum authorship.

2015-12-01 — 2017-03-31

Highlights

• Built and maintained a cross-platform iPhone and iPad app in Objective-C and Swift.
• Implemented Yidio's first in-app purchase (Yidio Premium), opening a new recurring revenue stream.
• Shipped the “Watch Next Episode” feature, increasing user retention and re-engagement by drawing users back into the app after sessions ended.
• Redesigned movie and show detail pages, lifting ad click-through rates.

2015-06-01 — 2015-08-31

Highlights

• Taught iOS game development to 16 students aged 13–24; every student published a game to the App Store.
• Authored curriculum covering GameCenter, Analytics, iAd, and the full App Store submission process.

Rochester Institute of Technology 2009-09-01 — 2014-05-31

Make School 2014-09-01 — 2015-05-31

• Swift
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Objective-C
• HTML
• CSS

• SwiftUI
• UIKit
• Swift Concurrency
• Combine
• CoreData
• HealthKit
• CloudKit
• SwiftSyntax

• Next.js
• React
• Node.js
• Chrome Extensions (MV3)

• Supabase
• Firebase
• Git

• Bikepacking
• Racing

• Godot 4
• Roguelike
• Deckbuilder

• HIIT

• French
• German