
Daniel Roach
Senior Software Engineer
A decade of engineering across Apple platforms, web, and enterprise infrastructure, shipping apps, automating release pipelines, and managing systems at scale.
Disciplines
Apple Platforms
Native app development across iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro. Expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit with a focus on performance, accessibility, and App Store delivery.
Web Developer
Full-stack web development spanning consumer-facing products and internal tooling. Built REST APIs, management dashboards, and ad-tech platforms across multiple companies.
DevOps & Release Engineering
Owning CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, from commit to App Store. Automated build, signing, and distribution workflows for enterprise mobile teams, with observability and 99.9% uptime across 50+ device labs.
AI & Workflow Automation
Leveraging AI coding assistants and LLM tools to accelerate development, automate workflows, and build AI-integrated features. Experienced applying AI orchestration across mobile, backend, and CI/CD contexts to increase velocity and output quality.
IT Support Specialist
End-user hardware and software support in regulated environments. Provisioned systems, resolved escalations, and maintained documentation in a HIPAA-compliant healthcare setting.
Systems Administrator
Managed on-premise virtualized infrastructure including Hyper-V clusters and SAN storage. Automated reporting pipelines, hardened security posture, and modernized legacy infrastructure.
Highlighted Impact
- Boosted post-meeting engagement by 30% by delivering a unified Meeting Recap suite, consolidating AI summaries, searchable transcripts, and recordings into a single flow across iOS, visionOS, and tvOS.
- Served as the primary owner of Webex's redesigned Meeting tab, one of the app's most customer-critical pages, receiving strong enterprise reception that measurably increased confidence in the Webex iOS product.
- Reduced crash rates by 25% and improved app stability for 2–3M weekly active users by leading a full Swift and SwiftUI modernization of legacy Objective-C codebases.
- Accelerated App Store release cycles by 40% by engineering end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for iOS, visionOS, and tvOS, covering build, signing, testing, and distribution with full compliance.
- Sustained 99.9% CI uptime across 50+ Apple devices by leading a dedicated CI/CD Scrum team, eliminating flaky runs through structured logging, smart retries, and test gating.
- Shipped high-visibility enterprise features including Meeting Recap AI summaries, Webinar OBTP, and Free User Spam Reduction in direct partnership with Apple, driving gains in customer satisfaction and adoption.
- Replaced Myspace's legacy Flash ad player with a standards-compliant HTML5 media player, sustaining revenue streams while delivering measurable gains in performance, security, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Designed and deployed the SAL Application, a government billing compliance system adopted as the primary audit artifact by state reviewers to verify correct allocation of department budget funds.
- Modernized network and server infrastructure across healthcare and education environments, migrating physical servers to Hyper-V clusters with SAN-backed storage, managing Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and VPN, and maintaining voice transmission systems across T1, ISDN, and SONET lines during USAF service.