try! Swift San Jose is your chance to contribute to Swift. Join a panel of Swift Open Source contributors for a discussion about the latest news on the Swift open source project, then contribute to Swift Open Source yourself with the help of community mentors!
Happening on Friday, June 8th at the Hilton connected to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center at WWDC.
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Meet the Mentors
Dave DeLong
Product Experience at Snap Inc., Apple Veteran, Bowtie Collector
Dave DeLong
A seven-year veteran of Apple, Dave DeLong is an accomplished iOS engineer with a passion for teaching, and hacking the Objective-C runtime. During his time at Apple, he worked on the UIKit framework, Developer Evangelism, and Apple Maps. He currently works on the Product Experience team at Snap, Inc.
Dave, his family, and his large collection of bowties live near Salt Lake City, where he’s an active member of the local developer community. He can often be found on Twitter teaching developers about all the ways that calendrical calculations can go wrong and pontificating on the virtues of eating chocolate with peanut butter.
Yusuke Kita
iOS Engineering Lead at Mercari, Swift Contributor, Cycling Enthusiast
Yusuke Kita
Yusuke Kita is an iOS developer at Mercari. He works on the internationalization of the Mercari app. He is passionate about learning new technology. When not coding, you can find him cycling.
Fumiya Nakamura
CTO at ookami, Swift Contributor, fastlane Core Contributor
Fumiya Nakamura
Fumiya is CTO at ookami, a Japanese sports tech startup. He is currently working on an app called Player!, that is a service bringing new ways to enjoy sports in real time. He's been writing Swift since 2014, soon after Apple launched it. Player! has been fully written in Swift from start. He loves the open source community, is one of the core contributors to fastlane, and helps mobile developers focus their products.
Kostiantyn Koval
Author of Swift High Performance, Swift Package Manager Contributor
Kostiantyn Koval
Kostiantyn started working as an iOS developer back in the days on iPhone 3G. He immediately knew that Swift is a revolution and jumped on it from day one! He has contributed to Swift Package Manager and is also the author of the Swift High Performance book. He is now pursuing his new passion - compilers.
Takeru Chuganji
iOS Tech Lead at Mercari, Swift Contributor, Dog Lover
Takeru Chuganji
Takeru a.k.a. Ganzy is the iOS Tech Lead at Mercari in the U.S. He loves to contribute to open source projects to make engineers happy and has contributed to Carthage, fastlane, Swift, and so on. Also he loves dogs so you can find him with a super cute Bulldog Puppy's profile picture on Twitter, GitHub, and some Slack channels.
Harlan Haskins
LLVMSwift Founder, Swift Contributor
Harlan Haskins
Harlan is a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. He founded LLVMSwift, an organization that aims to provide Swift engineers with compiler-oriented tools. He has spent the past two summers at Apple working on Swift, and plans to return full time on the Swift compiler team.
Naruki Chigira
iOS Developer at Timers-inc., Swift Package Manager Contributor
Naruki Chigira
Naruki is iOS application engineer and scrum master at Timers-inc. He has been involved in the development of applications Pairy and Famm since the early stages. He also develop application Liv arXiv personally. He was a LT speaker at try! Swift 2018 Tokyo.
Bas Broek
iOS and tooling developer at XING, Swift NIO Contributor
Bas Broek
Bas is an iOS and tooling developer at XING. He is currently curating Swift Weekly Brief and contributing to frameworks, apps and tooling in open source. He likes Swift and experimenting with other programming languages.
Garric G. Nahapetian
iOS Engineer at Tinder, SwiftCoders Podcast host, Swift Compiler Contributor
Garric G. Nahapetian
Garric is an iOS Engineer at Tinder as well as the host of The SwiftCoders Podcast and the founder of the Learn Swift {CITY} group of meet ups.
David Hart
Lead iOS Developer at Atipik, Swift Package Manager Contributor
David Hart
David is the Lead iOS Developer at Atipik, a small mobile development shop in Geneva. He's shown his passion for Swift Open Source as a contributor to the Swift Package Manager and by pitching in on Swift Evolution.
Pushkar Kulkarni
Server-Side Swift at IBM, Swift Foundation Contributor
Pushkar Kulkarni
Pushkar Kulkarni is a server-side Swift developer working with IBM. Prior to Swift, he worked on IBM's Java runtime, working on the JIT compiler and the Java standard library. Over the last two years, he has been contributing to open source Swift Foundation, focussed on making URLSession fully functional on Linux. He thinks Swift is the coolest language ever and is excited about the opportunities it offers on the server side.
More amazing community mentors will be announced in the next few weeks! Follow us on Twitter at @tryswiftsanjose for the latest updates and announcements!
Email us at [email protected] if you've contributed to one of the Swift open source projects and would like to be a mentor!
Meet the Host
June 8th, 2018
9:30 AM - Doors Open, Morning Registration, Twilio Quest
10:30 AM - Opening Announcements
10:45 AM - Swift Open Source Panel
Swift Open Source Panel
Swift Open Source Contributors
Join a panel of Swift Open Source Contributors for an insightful discussion about the latest news on the Swift open source project.
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - Doors Open, Afternoon Registration, Twilio Quest
1:30 PM - Announcements
1:45 PM - Presentations
2:30 PM - Swift Open Source Workshop
Swift Open Source Workshop
Swift Open Source Contributors
Learn how to contribute to Swift Evolution from community Swift Open Source contributors as mentors!
6:00 PM - Closing
Interested in sponsoring or want more information? Send us an email at [email protected].
Meet the Organizers
Natasha Murashev
Founder of try! Swift
Natasha Murashev
Natasha is an iOS developer by day and a robot by night. She blogs about Swift, watchOS, and iOS development on her blog, natashatherobot.com and organizes the try! Swift Conference around the world (including this one!). She's currently living the digital nomad life as her alter identity: @NatashaTheNomad.
Satoshi Hachiya
Founder of Pancake Meetup, Swift Package Manager Contributor
Satoshi Hachiya
Satoshi is a Japanese iOS developer working at R CUBE, inc. Mostly, he takes part in R CUBE's wedding service, Hanacolle. He was a speaker at Mobile Optimized 2017 in Belarus. He is also a founder of Pancake Meetup taken place in Tokyo, San Jose, and New York so far. You can find him with a profile picture of pancakes on Twitter, GitHub and Instagram.🥞
Nino Sakuma
Designer / iOS Developer
Nino Sakuma
Nino Sakuma ( a. k. a. yucovin ) is a designer and a painter in Japan. She loves Apple products so much that she became an iOS developer. She is an instructor of iOS app development course for beginners `App Creator Dojo(App-Dojo)`. Web site: Apple Blog `Motto shiritai Ringo arekore`. Riko, the mascot of try! Swift, is designed by her.
Vaishnavi Srinivasan
Product Manager at Braintree
Vaishnavi Srinivasan
Vaishnavi is Product Manager at Braintree, working on building mobile SDKs. She has over 10 years of experience in the industry, mostly on mobile products, as an engineer and product manager. Prior to Braintree, she spent time at Capital One, American Express & NewYork Times. When not at work, you can find her cooking, reading or planning imaginary vacations.
Alvin Varghese
Curator of Swift Sparks
Alvin Varghese
Alvin Varghese is an iOS & macOS developer from the land of cultures and traditions, Kerala. He is in his early twenties, has extremely high energy levels and being idle kills him. He is really passionate about iOS Development and technology, that's why he chose to become a Swift lover and an iOS Developer. When he is not working on any projects, he engages himself by reading books and travelling. He has a life-long obsession with learning and exploring. He is the author of Swift Sparks newsletter, a hand-picked list of Swift news every Monday. Nowadays he spends lot of his time organizing and managing Swift India Developer Community .