kickstarter/ios-oss
Oct 2024 – Oct 2025
12 Months active
Languages Used
GraphQLSwiftXMLXcodeXcode Project ConfigurationObjective-C
Technical Skills
Build ManagementCombineGraphQLMVVMPayment IntegrationSwift
Ingerid Fosli
PROFILE
Ingerid Fosli
Over the past year, Ivar Fosli developed and maintained core features for the kickstarter/ios-oss repository, focusing on pledge management, onboarding, and user experience improvements. He delivered robust UI flows and integrated new payment methods, leveraging Swift, GraphQL, and UIKit to enhance reliability and accessibility. His work included refactoring onboarding and feature flag systems, expanding localization, and upgrading engagement tooling with Braze and Segment. By implementing data modeling, remote configuration, and analytics integration, Ivar streamlined complex flows and reduced maintenance overhead. His engineering approach emphasized maintainability, test coverage, and scalable architecture, resulting in a more stable and user-friendly iOS application.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
82%Features
Repository Contributions
56Total
Bugs
6
Commits
56
Features
27
Lines of code
83,641
Activity Months12
Your Network
7 peopleSame Organization
@kickstarter.com4
Shared Repositories
3
Work History
October 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Month: 2025-10 — Key feature delivered: Onboarding Flow Non-configurable (feature flag removal). Major bugs fixed: none reported. Overall impact: Simplified remote configuration surface, reduced maintenance overhead, and clearer onboarding path; sets foundation for faster future onboarding updates. Technologies/skills demonstrated: feature flag management, remote config strategy, code cleanup, and OSS contribution in an iOS project (kickstarter/ios-oss).
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025Month: 2025-10 — Key feature delivered: Onboarding Flow Non-configurable (feature flag removal). Major bugs fixed: none reported. Overall impact: Simplified remote configuration surface, reduced maintenance overhead, and clearer onboarding path; sets foundation for faster future onboarding updates. Technologies/skills demonstrated: feature flag management, remote config strategy, code cleanup, and OSS contribution in an iOS project (kickstarter/ios-oss).
October 2025
September 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered a targeted set of design-system and reliability enhancements across the Kickstarter iOS OSS app. Work focused on expanding theming capabilities, stabilizing user flows, and simplifying feature management to improve business value, user experience, and data quality.
September 2025
8 Commits • 4 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025: Delivered a targeted set of design-system and reliability enhancements across the Kickstarter iOS OSS app. Work focused on expanding theming capabilities, stabilizing user flows, and simplifying feature management to improve business value, user experience, and data quality.
August 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025: Delivered critical UI stability and localization improvements for the kickstarter/ios-oss app, while upgrading engagement tooling to Braze to improve messaging reliability and user engagement. Key outcomes include consistent search behavior, corrected disabled states across themes, expanded Spanish and Japanese localization, and Braze SDK upgrade with Segment integration to preserve push notifications, in-app messages, and deep links. These efforts reduce user confusion around filtering, broaden international reach, and establish a more reliable engagement stack for future campaigns.
5 Commits • 2 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025: Delivered critical UI stability and localization improvements for the kickstarter/ios-oss app, while upgrading engagement tooling to Braze to improve messaging reliability and user engagement. Key outcomes include consistent search behavior, corrected disabled states across themes, expanded Spanish and Japanese localization, and Braze SDK upgrade with Segment integration to preserve push notifications, in-app messages, and deep links. These efforts reduce user confusion around filtering, broaden international reach, and establish a more reliable engagement stack for future campaigns.
August 2025
July 2025
19 Commits • 3 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025—Consolidated delivery across PPO pledge management, goal-based discovery, search UX, and payment flow reliability, with release readiness housekeeping. Delivered business-value features, stabilized critical flows, and reinforced localization for global users.
July 2025
19 Commits • 3 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025—Consolidated delivery across PPO pledge management, goal-based discovery, search UX, and payment flow reliability, with release readiness housekeeping. Delivered business-value features, stabilized critical flows, and reinforced localization for global users.
June 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025Month: 2025-06 — Summary focused on delivering the new Pledged Projects Overview: Manage Pledge action in the kickstarter/ios-oss repo. This feature adds parsing logic, UI templates, and navigation events to support managing pledges directly from the PPO screen. Work is tracked under MBL-2093 with commit 4184f253da24663308657014be218d651f99ce14 and PR #2491. No other major bugs were reported in the provided data; QA to validate edge cases is planned.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025Month: 2025-06 — Summary focused on delivering the new Pledged Projects Overview: Manage Pledge action in the kickstarter/ios-oss repo. This feature adds parsing logic, UI templates, and navigation events to support managing pledges directly from the PPO screen. Work is tracked under MBL-2093 with commit 4184f253da24663308657014be218d651f99ce14 and PR #2491. No other major bugs were reported in the provided data; QA to validate edge cases is planned.
June 2025
May 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/ios-oss: Delivered three focused changes that improve user onboarding, payment flexibility, and accessibility. Key features delivered: User Authentication Flow for Surveys; SEPA Payment Method Display in Manage Pledge. Major bug fixes: Accessibility and Internationalization of Payment Method Labels. Overall impact: smoother survey completion for logged-out users, expanded payment options in pledges, and improved accessibility with internationalization. Technologies/skills demonstrated: iOS app development, authentication flows, UI refactoring for multiple payment types, accessibility and internationalization, test snapshot maintenance.
May 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/ios-oss: Delivered three focused changes that improve user onboarding, payment flexibility, and accessibility. Key features delivered: User Authentication Flow for Surveys; SEPA Payment Method Display in Manage Pledge. Major bug fixes: Accessibility and Internationalization of Payment Method Labels. Overall impact: smoother survey completion for logged-out users, expanded payment options in pledges, and improved accessibility with internationalization. Technologies/skills demonstrated: iOS app development, authentication flows, UI refactoring for multiple payment types, accessibility and internationalization, test snapshot maintenance.
March 2025
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/ios-oss: Delivered UI stability improvements and foundational testing/feature-flag groundwork to accelerate future feature deliveries. These efforts improved first-load UX and reduced release risk while establishing a scalable path for upcoming search enhancements.
3 Commits • 2 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 monthly summary for kickstarter/ios-oss: Delivered UI stability improvements and foundational testing/feature-flag groundwork to accelerate future feature deliveries. These efforts improved first-load UX and reduced release risk while establishing a scalable path for upcoming search enhancements.
March 2025
February 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — Kickstarted ios-oss: delivered two key user-facing features with backend/schema updates and accessibility improvements, enhancing user experience and accessibility while maintaining code quality. Key deliverables include: - Display project notices on the project page via RestrictedCreatorViewController and an AlertBanner, with GraphQL schema, view models, and tests updated to support notices. Commit: b09e9ceade326324204fbd82330cd97a13735f9f. - Accessibility improvements for large font sizes in Pledged Projects Overview: increased line limits for creator names and message buttons; explicit cap on content size category for tab bar text to prevent UI distortion. Commit: a2c5989b64c654e6c7e0250890d76f314e627203. Bug fixes: No separate bug fixes were reported for this period; the work focused on feature delivery and accessibility improvements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Swift, UIKit, GraphQL schema and backend/view-model integration, UI testing, and accessibility best practices.
February 2025
2 Commits • 2 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 — Kickstarted ios-oss: delivered two key user-facing features with backend/schema updates and accessibility improvements, enhancing user experience and accessibility while maintaining code quality. Key deliverables include: - Display project notices on the project page via RestrictedCreatorViewController and an AlertBanner, with GraphQL schema, view models, and tests updated to support notices. Commit: b09e9ceade326324204fbd82330cd97a13735f9f. - Accessibility improvements for large font sizes in Pledged Projects Overview: increased line limits for creator names and message buttons; explicit cap on content size category for tab bar text to prevent UI distortion. Commit: a2c5989b64c654e6c7e0250890d76f314e627203. Bug fixes: No separate bug fixes were reported for this period; the work focused on feature delivery and accessibility improvements. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Swift, UIKit, GraphQL schema and backend/view-model integration, UI testing, and accessibility best practices.
January 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 performance summary for kickstarter/ios-oss focusing on delivering core pledge-related features and reliability improvements that directly impact conversion, retention, and issue resolution. The work aligns with business goals of reducing friction in the pledge journey and improving trust and data correctness across APIs and UI.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 performance summary for kickstarter/ios-oss focusing on delivering core pledge-related features and reliability improvements that directly impact conversion, retention, and issue resolution. The work aligns with business goals of reducing friction in the pledge journey and improving trust and data correctness across APIs and UI.
January 2025
December 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024Month: 2024-12 — Release engineering and API maintenance focused month for kickstarter/ios-oss. Key features delivered include release-version housekeeping and GraphQL schema cleanup. No functional code changes were introduced in this period.
December 2024
3 Commits • 2 Features
Dec 1, 2024Month: 2024-12 — Release engineering and API maintenance focused month for kickstarter/ios-oss. Key features delivered include release-version housekeeping and GraphQL schema cleanup. No functional code changes were introduced in this period.
November 2024
3 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments in the kickstarter/ios-oss repository. Delivered critical checkout and messaging improvements, expanded shipping rule handling, and refactored project identifiers to enable more robust, scalable PPO interactions. These changes reduce checkout friction, improve accuracy of shipping options, and enable project-specific messaging at the PPO screen, contributing to higher conversion rates and better user experience.
3 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments in the kickstarter/ios-oss repository. Delivered critical checkout and messaging improvements, expanded shipping rule handling, and refactored project identifiers to enable more robust, scalable PPO interactions. These changes reduce checkout friction, improve accuracy of shipping options, and enable project-specific messaging at the PPO screen, contributing to higher conversion rates and better user experience.
November 2024
October 2024
4 Commits • 3 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 — Kickstarted/ios-oss: Delivered shipping and payment accuracy improvements, enhanced pledged projects UX, and prepared release readiness for 5.20.1. Highlights include: (1) Pledge Shipping and Payment Accuracy: retrieve shipping info from backing when no shipping rule is selected and ensure shipping is included in Apple Pay charges to reflect accurate charges and delivery details. (2) Pledged Projects Overview: add backingDetailsUrl to project card, update navigation, and enable survey views and responses via GraphQL routing. (3) Release Version Bump to 5.20.1: bump marketing/version numbers across the Xcode project.
October 2024
4 Commits • 3 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 — Kickstarted/ios-oss: Delivered shipping and payment accuracy improvements, enhanced pledged projects UX, and prepared release readiness for 5.20.1. Highlights include: (1) Pledge Shipping and Payment Accuracy: retrieve shipping info from backing when no shipping rule is selected and ensure shipping is included in Apple Pay charges to reflect accurate charges and delivery details. (2) Pledged Projects Overview: add backingDetailsUrl to project card, update navigation, and enable survey views and responses via GraphQL routing. (3) Release Version Bump to 5.20.1: bump marketing/version numbers across the Xcode project.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness90.6%
Maintainability89.0%
Architecture88.4%
Performance85.4%
AI Usage20.0%
Skills & Technologies
Programming Languages
GraphQLObjective-CSwiftXMLXcodeXcode Project Configuration
Technical Skills
API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationAccessibilityAnalyticsAnalytics IntegrationBuild ManagementBuild System ConfigurationCode CleanupCode RefactoringColor ManagementCombineData ModelingData ParsingDeep LinkingDesign Systems
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