Shai Mishali

Senior iOS Tech Lead for monday.com, as well as an international speaker, and a highly active open-source contributor and maintainer on several high-profile projects - namely, the RxSwift Community and RxSwift projects, but also releases many open-source endeavours around Combine such as CombineExt, CombineCocoa, RxCombine and more. Author on the book "Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift", and an editor on many other technical books on topic such RxSwift, Concurrency, Realm, and more and also spoke in many well-known conference such as try! Swift NYC, SwiftConf, Swift Heroes, droidCon Tell Aviv, and many more. I started my computer journey when I was 5 years old and got my first IBM XT computer, as a gift for Passover (a Jewish holiday), and was truly enchanted by it. I still couldn't do much more than playing DOS games and connecting 2 clients via TCP clients for chat on a 14.4kbps Dial-up modem (which was pretty remarkable at the time). My career path started off with about 10 years of experience with Web and Backend development as well as various web-specific architectural roles, but since ~2010, I've switched my main passion to iOS development, stating with iOS 4. My vast backend experience is extremely handy as a mobile lead / engineer since I have knowledge of "the best of both worlds". I've never really had any official education (especially not in my profession), and I make up for that by being quite an Autodidact. I've learned most of what i know completely by myself and quite quickly, which is one of the reasons i have knowledge in quite a wide range of subjects in the computer world. I have a fast grasp of learning new languages and a great mind for troubleshooting and bug-solving. One of the things i love the most is having a good and interesting challenge. I love learning new things and implementing them in my daily work. My greatest dream in the profession is to build something that will really help people on their daily lives, and something that will really impact people and reach to millions of potential users.