Greater Seattle Area

Sasa LaRue

Senior Software Engineer

iOS, Swift & Scala — building polished products at scale since 2012.

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About

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years building iOS applications, military simulation systems, and ad-tech platforms. I've shipped features to 50,000+ daily active users at Alaska Airlines, led kiosk-replacement platform engineering, integrated payments at Compass, and currently build ads infrastructure at Hopper Technology Solutions.

I care about clean architecture, airtight CI pipelines, and software that actually ships on time.

Location Greater Seattle Area
Focus iOS · Swift · Scala
Currently HTS — Hopper Technology Solutions
Languages English (native) · Spanish

Experience

Senior Ads Engineer

Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS)

Oct 2022 – Present

Remote

Senior iOS Engineer

Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS) Media & Ads

Oct 2022 – Jul 2025

Remote · Seattle, WA

  • Built and maintained iOS ad surfaces across Hopper's consumer app
  • Worked across Swift and Scala stacks within the Ads platform
Swift Scala

Software Engineer II — iOS

Compass

Sep 2021 – Oct 2022

Remote

  • Integrated Stripe SDK for in-app digital ad purchases on the iPhone application
  • Built real-time listing-based ad image generation from user input, fully in SwiftUI
  • Created a standalone beta-test app for agents to evaluate new features before release
Swift SwiftUI Stripe SDK

Senior Software Engineer

Alaska Airlines

Feb 2021 – Sep 2021

Seattle, WA

  • Project lead for a new day-of-travel bag tag iPad app to replace all existing airport kiosks
  • Integrated third-party Zebra printer; generated bag tag images dynamically from guest routing
  • Built real-time payment approval using card-on-file and guest mobile device
  • Evaluated point-of-sale devices for iPad integration

Software Engineer

Alaska Airlines

Mar 2018 – Feb 2021

Seattle, WA

  • SME developer for the iOS Guest App serving 50,000+ daily active devices at the 5th-largest U.S. airline
  • Implemented new network stack using latest URLSession best practices
  • Automated the entire release pipeline from build to App Store; enforced TDD via PR policies and peer review
  • On-call support for front-end and back-end Guest Application operations

Software Engineer

L3 Technologies

May 2017 – Feb 2018

Arlington, TX

  • Developed fast-jet military simulation and real-time graphics generation for training systems
  • Used OpenGL to render shaders, textures, and objects in real time
OpenGL

CI Automation Intern

Alaska Airlines

May – Aug 2016

Seattle, WA

  • Built automated deployment and testing lanes for iOS using Ruby FastLane with Slack integration
  • Created Jenkins CI jobs for iOS and Android — UI, unit, and instrumented tests on physical devices

QA Automation Engineer

DAT Solutions

May 2015 – Apr 2016

Beaverton, OR

  • Converted manual QA tests into automated C# NUnit tests running on TeamCity after every push
  • Worked in Agile/Scrum to track bugs, parallelize with NUnit 3.0, and report progress

SW PM Assistant

Intel Corporation

Nov 2012 – Aug 2013

Hillsboro, OR

  • Managed delivery schedules for multiple program managers; built SharePoint collaboration sites
  • Programmed in Java, Python, and C++

Skills

Languages

Swift Scala Python Ruby Java C# C++

Platforms & Frameworks

iOS SwiftUI OpenGL Stripe SDK

DevOps & CI/CD

FastLane Jenkins GitHub Actions

Methods

Agile / Scrum TDD On-call Ops

Education

Baylor University

Dean's List — Fall 2013, Fall 2015

Kappa Sigma IEEE

Get in Touch

Open to interesting opportunities and collaborations.

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