About Simon

Simon Wang is a passionate mentor, and technical thought leader.

He currently works for WooliesX as Practice Lead - Mobile Engineering, leading the engineering practice of mobile community of 100+ engineers across iOS, Android and BFF teams.

Prior to WooliesX, Simon worked as Head of Mobile at MEGA Ltd, where he managed the mobile department of 45 engineers and led the adoption of Compose and SwiftUI to MEGA's Android and iOS projects.

With a proven track record of scaling and empowering teams, Simon has consistently delivered impactful solutions throughout his career. He's a champion of engineering best practices, spearheading initiatives to improve code quality, streamline CI/CD pipelines, and adopt cutting-edge mobile technologies like SwiftUI and Android Jetpack Compose.

Migrating to Swift 6 and Adopting Complete Swift Concurrency Checking

Sydney

Programming Languages, Cloud & Tools

Right now, at WooliesX, we are migrating our monorepo iOS codebase from Swift 5 to Swift 6 released in Sep 2024. The key task of migrating to Swift 6 is to adopt complete swift concurrency check, which eliminates all data race crashes.

We are still working through this migration project, and we aim to get it done in Jan - Feb 2025. I would like to share our learnings and insights in converting a large codebase to Swift 6.