Biography

Joel had the good fortune to work at Apple when the iPhone was being developed. His exposure was writing sample apps against the iPhone SDK, making him among the first people in the world to `#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>`. That launched him into the world of iOS development for good, where he has since worked on a wide variety of interesting products, launched a startup, worked at several others, and still somehow not gotten tired of San Francisco.

Joel is currently an iOS developer at Handshake, a platform to help students find meaningful careers.

Talk: iOS Staff+

The path to Senior Engineer is well-understood: increase your technical and communication skills, scope, and impact.

And it’s much the same for iOS engineers.

Beyond Senior, though–at the Staff level and beyond–the ladder vanishes.

Is there a path forward?

How do you find it at your company?