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Thumbtack Engineering

Thumbtack Engineering

We're the builders behind Thumbtack - an online marketplace that matches customers with local professionals to accomplish their projects.

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Thumbtack Engineering
Feb 28 · 6 min read

Building a native design system for iOS

By: Kevin Beaulieu

What is a “native design system”?

“Native design system” can be broken up into two parts: “native” and “design system.” Starting with the latter, a design…

Thumbtack Engineering
Dec 2, 2019 · 5 min read

Targeted Code Coverage Reports for Android Continuous Builds

By: Brian Tercyznski

Thumbtack Engineering
Nov 27, 2019 · 6 min read

Our Transition to Machine Learning in Search Ranking to Match Customers and Professionals

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Thumbtack Engineering
Nov 25, 2019 · 5 min read

Detecting Leaky View Controllers

By: Scott Southerland

For iOS developers, avoiding retain cycles is one of those things that is conceptually easy but can be deceptively subtle in practice. For the uninitiated, Swift manages memory by checking how many objects…

Thumbtack Engineering
Oct 18, 2019 · 4 min read

The 20 000 engineer view

By: Will Mee

I’m a new Thumbtack engineer, but I’m not new to engineering. I joined Thumbtack 4 months ago from a much larger tech company: one that has well over 20,000 engineers and a very strong engineering culture, one whose services you likely…