Pinky Salvanera

About

I build and ship iOS features for a large-scale telecom platform supporting 60M+ subscribers, focused on product delivery, release operations, engagement systems, and code quality.

Outside my day job, I'm building Astrologie, an AI chatbot for Vedic astrology.

I’m currently based in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭. When I step away from Xcode, you can usually find me experimenting with moka pot brews or leveling up my Spanish (currently fighting my way through A2 🇪🇸!)

Experience

1. Jan 2023 – Present

   iOS Developer · Globe Telecom

   • iOS feature delivery in a high-traffic production app
   • Owned biweekly iOS release cycles since July 2025, managing App Store submissions, approvals, and release readiness
   • Coordinated hotfix escalations and post-release monitoring for production stability
   • Supported signing, certificates, provisioning, and related release administration tasks
   • Improved testing workflows and tester access to reduce release friction across squads
   • Product and process improvements and peer code reviews across engineering squads
   • Led evaluation of mobile observability tooling to improve debugging and session monitoring

   • 2.0 → 4.5 Contributed to raising the App Store rating
   • 25–30% Led iOS app size reduction
   • 178K App Store ratings

   • Swift
   • SwiftUI
   • UIKit
   • Compose Multiplatform
   • async/await
   • MVVM
   • VIPER

2. Jun 2022 – Dec 2022

   Junior Developer (Graduate Trainee Program) · Globe Telecom

   • Selected as one of 25 trainees from 200+ applicants after a competitive internal hackathon.
   • Completed a 6-month program covering software engineering fundamentals, cloud concepts, and agile practices.

   • Git
   • Jira
   • Agile / Scrum

Earlier experience

1. Sep 2020 – Apr 2022

   PLC Automation Engineer · Rebisco

   Delivered automation and instrumentation projects across food manufacturing plants in the Philippines, and trained technicians to operate and troubleshoot PLCs, servo motors, and sensor systems.

2. Aug 2019

   Electrical Engineering Intern · Chung Yuan Christian University (Taiwan)

   Worked on-site with an international engineering team on a digital signal processing project and presented it at a technical showcase.

Education and certifications

• Advanced iOS
• iOS & Swift Essentials
• Advanced Android
• Android & Kotlin Essentials

Big Nerd Ranch

BS Electronics Engineering · Mapúa University Minor: Industrial Automation and Engineering

Projects

GlobeOne · Day job

GlobeOne ↗ on the App Store

Consumer telecommunications self-service application for account management, usage tracking, bill payment, offer purchase, and rewards redemption.

Personalized In-App Campaigns

Web-configurable in-app banners, allowing product teams to launch campaigns without app releases. Kept the experience native on iOS.

AI-Powered Catalog Search

AI-powered catalog search to improve offer discovery.

Deep Linking Infrastructure

Deep linking infrastructure for improved campaign experience by routing users to the correct in-app destination.

Business Continuity Fallback

A WebView fallback to preserve critical purchase flows during app API maintenance.