Sam McGarry

Sam McGarry

Product Engineer in Copenhagen, He/Him

Projects

Ongoing

Today is an elegant productivity app based on a century old workflow, the Ivy Lee Method. It aims to help fight overcommitment, and answer the question "What am I doing Today?".

2023
MacWhisper at Good Snooze
2023
Push Up Pal at Good Snooze
2022
Dashcam Data Collection at Playground

Side Projects

2024
Cue

Features

2024

A brief mention of Posture Pal for macOS, a project I worked on in 2023, in a New Yorker article about slouching.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
2023 — 2024
Apple Platforms Engineer at Good Snooze
Remote
  • Helped design and ship the Posture Pal macOS app, culminating in an App Store feature under “Best New Apps and Updates”.

  • Designed and implemented a new onboarding flow for MacWhisper, capturing 50% of the paywall conversions within the app.

2023 — 2023
Remote
  • Guided end-to-end development of the FieldDay iOS app, launching on the App Store within an aggressive 6-month timeframe.

  • Designed a reliable, offline-proof image upload system used by the FieldDay app with 100% Gherkins based testing coverage.

  • Implemented an efficient CI/CD pipeline with Xcode Cloud for beta testing, eliminating internal manual release efforts completely.

  • Wrote async/await API wrappers to modernize & adapt the Apollo iOS GraphQL package so it could be used within the project.

2021 — 2023
Remote, London
  • Worked with designer to implement 20+ custom interactive animations using CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics, and UIKit.

  • Used Vision, AVFoundation, CoreSpotlight and CoreData to develop an intelligent and searchable image indexing system.

  • Worked with team to design and develop a demo app used for vehicle data capture while driving, all within a 3 week timeline.

  • Designed & implemented a new code review process, resulting in cleaner, more maintainable code & saving development hours.

2021 — 2021
Remote
  • Worked with Air Force pilots to develop post mission paperwork iPad app, reducing mission length by at least 1 hour.

  • Garnered support for feature by presenting prototype to fifty people from multiple government and civilian organizations.

  • Wrote and deployed hundreds of Gherkins based UI and unit tests, expanding the project’s test coverage by 50%.

  • Created data model documentation that was used as a reference by multiple teams and stakeholders during a feature sync.

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