DonEli Baize
Senior iOS Engineer

DonEli Baize

I build high-performance iOS platforms that bridge Swift, Metal, and low-level graphics — shipping production systems for real-time rendering and large-scale data streaming.

Lehi, UT · Open to senior roles
U.S. Patent No. 11,676,328
Systems and Methods for Prioritized Rendering and Streaming
Granted June 13, 2023  ·  Read the explainer →
2024 —
Lead iOS Engineer
Monliz, Inc. — Los Angeles

Technical owner of an iOS platform powering sensor-driven automotive workflows across California. Architected a modular networking layer that streamlined REST integrations and accelerated feature delivery, with frontend service abstractions that improved maintainability and reduced coupling.

2022 — 2024
Senior iOS / macOS / Graphics Engineer
Miris — Los Angeles

Bridged a C++ Metal engine into a SwiftUI product for spatial film streaming, improving rendering performance for high-bandwidth workloads. Built a Swift SDK from the ground up for gRPC streaming of large datasets, designed for reuse across client applications and future platform extensions.

2020 — 2022
Co-Founder & iOS Developer
PersonaFi — Hawaii

Founding engineer on a social trading platform for stocks, crypto, and options that grew to 80,000 users. Owned core architecture and feature delivery from early concept through nine versioned releases.

Languages
Swift, Objective-C, C++, C#, Python
UI
SwiftUI, UIKit, CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics
Graphics
Metal, OpenGL, shader pass diagnostics, engine optimization
Apple frameworks
ARKit, CoreML, Combine, CoreBluetooth, NearbyInteractions
Architecture
SDK design, MVVM, MVC, build pipeline engineering
Networking & backend
REST, gRPC, Alamofire, AWS Amplify, Firebase
Education
Ph.D. studies in Computer Graphics and Data Visualization — Purdue University Lynn Fellowship recipient
B.S. Applied Mathematics — Brigham Young University, Hawaii GPA 3.98 · Phi Beta Kappa · Minors in Web Development & Visual Arts
Publication
Olmstead, R., Baize, D. — Probabilities Involving Standard Trirectangular Tetrahedral Dice Rolls Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal, Vol. 19, Issue 1