Erica Sadun

@ericasadun

Erica Sadun writes lots of books. When not writing or coding, she parents geeks who are brushing up on their world domination skills. According to her academic dosimeter, she's acquired more education than any self-respecting person might consider wise. She enjoys deep diving into technology and has written, co-written, and contributed to dozens of books about computing and digital media. Sadun has blogged at TUAW, Ars Technica, O'Reilly, and Lifehacker. She has authored more rejected Swift Language proposals than anyone else.

Daniel Steinberg

@dimsumthinking

Daniel is the author of more than a dozen books including the best selling books A Swift Kickstart and Dear Elena.

He has written apps for the iPhone and the iPad since the SDKs first appeared and has written programs for the Mac all the way back to System 7.

Daniel presents iPhone, Cocoa, and Swift training and consults through his company Dim Sum Thinking. When he's not coding or talking about coding for the Mac, the iPhone, and the iPad he's probably cooking, baking bread, or hanging out with friends.

Vincent Pradeilles

@v_pradeilles

Vincent started working on iOS apps back in 2011. For the last years, he’s been working at Worldline, where he contributes to building great apps for major French banks. He loves Swift and enjoys sharing about it on the Internet. Most notably, he built the framework KeyPathKit that implements a SQL-like syntax for data manipulation. He is also the person behind the Twitter account @ios_memes.

Marc Aupont

@digimarktech

Marc Aupont is a first-generation American born from Haitian immigrant parents. His passion for technology led him to move from Orlando, FL to NYC 2 years ago. He currently works at Lickability as an iOS Engineer and his hobbies include: working on side projects involving electronics and hardware, hosting and organizing tech meetups, as well as weekend road trips to random destinations with his wife and two boys.

Marin Todorov

@icanzilb

Marin Todorov is a developer, speaker and author. He works for high profile clients most often doing Swift development. Besides crafting code, he enjoys blogging, writing books, teaching, and speaking. He sometimes open sources his code. More about Marin at underplot.com

Roxana Jula

@RoxanaJula

Roxana is a Romanian mobile developer based in Dubai with a passion for augmented reality. She started coding when she was 13 years old and so far has been part of the development team of over 20 apps including one of the biggest digital public services app in Scandinavia. She is involved in the tech community, both online (instagram.com/coderox/) and offline at local events. As an advocate for women in tech, Roxana is encouraging other girls to join the tech world.

Kishikawa Katsumi

@k_katsumi

Katsumi is a software engineer who has been working in software development on iOS and Mac platforms for over ten years. He is the creator of some popular OSS libraries and developer tool such as KeychainAccess, IBPCollectionViewCompositionalLayout, SpreadsheetView, SourceKit for Safari, Swift AST Explorer, and so on. He loves to write software for developers.

Paul Hudson

@twostraws

Paul is the author of Hacking with Swift, Pro Swift, Swift Design Patterns, Testing Swift, Server-Side Swift, Swift Coding Challenges, and more. Suffice it to say, he quite likes Swift. And coffee. (But mostly Swift.) (And coffee.).

Carola Nitz

@_Caro_N

Carola Nitz is an iOS Software Engineer with 7 years of experience working on various iOS Apps. She spent the last years contributing to complex projects like the Netflix iOS App, Apple Maps and VLC for iOS where she learned to navigate matured projects with legacy code. She’s become known for her talks and tweets about Debugging but her passion is Open Source and the iOS Community, where she enjoys creating events like App Builders but also working in diverse teams and learning from others and sharing her knowledge.

Ben Scheirman

@subdigital

Ben is an iOS/Mac developer from Houston, Texas. Under his company, Fickle Bits, he builds apps for clients ranging from startups to established companies from multiple industries. He also runs NSScreencast.com, a site with over 400 screencasts on app development. When not writing software, Ben is probably playing board games, playing guitar, or making award-winning Texas BBQ. You can find Ben on Twitter (@subdigital) or at his blog at benscheirman.com.

Tim Oliver

@TimOliverAU

Tim's been a fanboy of iOS since the iPhone 3G and a full-time iOS engineer since the iPhone 5. Recently, he’s worked as an iOS tech lead at Mercari in Tokyo, and before that, at Realm in San Francisco. In his free time, he enjoys contributing to the open source iOS community, attempting karaoke and playing video games.

Erica Correa

@CodeWithCooties

Erica is an iOS Engineer at The Knot Worldwide, working on The Knot wedding planner app. She’s committed to clean, concise, reusable code. As a former NYC school teacher she enjoys helping other people on her team learn and grow as engineers. Co-founder and co-manager of TKWW’s Women in Tech resource group, she’s passionate about diversity in technology. She’s also a member of the HR committee of the BlackAF affinity group, spearheading intersectionality efforts to get more black women in tech, product, and design.

She’s happily married to fellow iOS Engineer, George. Together they have a five-year-old named Tino and a one-year-old named Rosie. When not happily coding away on her Mac she spends her time nerding out on Marvel Netflix series with George, painting Tino’s toenails, making Rosie laugh, and cooking Italian comfort food while dancing to salsa in her kitchen.

Samuel Goodwin

@samuelgoodwin

Samuel Goodwin runs Roundwall Software in Amsterdam. Since 2011 he has been working to help teams and companies get past the barriers that prevent them from making apps.

Yasuhiro Inami

@inamiy

Yasuhiro is an iOS developer living in Japan since 2010. While creating iPhone apps such as messenger, camera, news, video-on-demand app in his work, he also dedicates his time to functional programming and open source projects. He is a huge fan of Swift, Haskell, and any statically typed languages that compiler can check his bad code.

Bas Broek

@basthomas

Bas is an iOS developer with a passion for testability, accessibility and user-centric apps. He cares about communication and collaboration. In his spare time, he curates Swift Weekly Brief, talks about things on the Contravariance podcast, helps organizing SwiftAveiro, a Swift workshop conference, and works on various open source projects, like GitHawk.

Donny Wals

@DonnyWals

I'm a passionate and curious iOS developer, Author and Speaker. Currently I'm working at Disney Streaming Services on our iOS SDK on the internal iOS SDK. I have written three books on iOS development and have delivered several talks and workshop over the past couple of years. Next to iOS development I'm a huge cat lover and I like dabbling on my guitar.

Jeroen Zonneveld

@j_zonneveld

Jeroen Zonneveld is a technical project manager. Years ago he started as an iOS developer at the agency Triple, but because of a great passion for customer contact and thinking along with their mobile products, he became a technical project manager. To share knowledge with other developers, Jeroen is blogging mobile development tips and tricks on the Zonneveld.dev blog.

Ellen Shapiro

@designatednerd

Ellen Shapiro is a native mobile developer, currently working on the Apollo GraphQL iOS SDK. Ellen has been writing and tech editing for RayWenderlich.com since 2013, working on many tutorials and books about iOS and Android, and has been speaking internationally about iOS and Android development for the last several years. When not coding or writing or speaking about code, Ellen enjoys travel (well, normally...), cycling, playing sous-chef to her fiancée Lilia, and relentlessly Instagramming their cats.

Yusuke Kita

@kitasuke

Yusuke is a Software Engineer at 10X. He's been working in frontend and backend team. He's passionate about learning new technology especially Swift Compiler in these days. When not coding, you can find him cycling.

David Okun

@dokun24

David works at a trading company on iOS architecture. He is most passionate about modularity and making swift work in places you wouldn’t expect it to work.

Soaurabh Kakkar

@soaurabh

Soaurabh Kakkar is a Principal iOS engineer at Tokopedia, Indonesia’s technology unicorn. Apart from contributing to large scale consumer apps, he likes to experiment and co-invented a security algorithm that can be read on Google Patents. He has previously spoken on topics like HLS In-Depth, Myths about Application Architecture, Functional Paradigm at Swift India Conference and in company-wide talks. When he’s not programming, he spends time watching Cricket and playing Mortal Kombat on Xbox.

Vatsal Manot

@vatsal_manot

Vatsal is an active member of the iOS developer community and is currently focused on building SwiftUIX, a framework to complement the SwiftUI standard library. In the past, he has spoken at try! Swift Bangalore, Swift Bangalore Chapter and has conducted SwiftUI workshops for the Swift India Community.

Marcin Krzyzanowski

@krzyzanowskim

Marcin is an eclectic developer with a years of experience in mobile and desktop applications, as well in enterprise solutions. 10x developer like to learn new things with a pragmatic approach to the art of programming. Ocasionally he speaks at conferences and sharing knownledge. Active in open source software development communities he published a wide range of iOS/macOS libraries and tools, such as CryptoSwift, ObjectivePGP and the amazing Online Swift Playground, capable of running Swift code interactively from a Web Browser.

Some links to get more information about what I do:

• personal blog: https://blog.krzyzanowskim.com
• twitter: https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim
• speaker deck: https://speakerdeck.com/krzyzanowskim
• github https://github.com/krzyzanowskim

Vui Nguyen

@sunfishgurl

Vui has been building iOS applications for almost 10 years, first as a cross-platform mobile developer before transitioning to Objective-C and Swift several years ago. She also builds full-stack IoT applications as a hobby, & has won international IoT competitions with her automated faucet dripper 'Save the Water Pipes'!

When she's not building cool iOS or IoT apps, Vui enjoys fishing, eating, sleeping, and repeating. And glamping, and traveling to different places to go fishing :)

Vui is a Lead for the Colorado chapter of Women Who Code and a Lead for the Women Who Code Mobile Track.

Shai Mishali

@freak4pc

Shai is iOS Tech Lead for Gett, the on-demand mobility company, and is involved in several open source projects on his spare time - mainly the RxSwiftCommunity and RxSwift projects, as well as an international speaker. Author on the upcoming Combine book from raywenderlich.com and a hackathon addict and 1st place winner of BattleHack World Finals 2014. You can find him on GitHub and Twitter as @freak4pc.

Marina Gornostaeva

@hybridcattt

Marina has been professionally building apps for iOS for 9 years, since before ARC. Throughout her career, she worked on dozens of apps of various sizes, both greenfield and legacy projects. These days she is most passionate about robust solutions, quality code, and building the best user experience. Right now she’s on sabbatical after 4 years of leading and scaling the iOS team at Storytel.

In her spare time, Marina co-organizes CopenhagenCocoa meetups, mentors aspiring iOS developers and follows Swift Evolution. When not watching Netflix, she tries to find time to write and contribute to OSS. She likes cats, drinking wine and table tennis.

Alex Paul

@AlexPaul

I am an iOS Instructor at Pursuit.org. At Pursuit I have been teaching iOS development for over 2 years now. I teach iOS development to young adults from diverse backgrounds and migrant communities who are striving for a career change. Prior to Pursuit I worked at a New York App agency. Husband and father of a 3 and 7 year old. Talk to me about Swift, Zwift and IRONMANs and diversity in tech.

Hector Matos

@krakendev

Hector is the owner and author of The KrakenDev Blog. He has written iOS Apps since the manual memory management days and has worked for companies both small and large such as Apple, Capital One, Twitter, and most recently: Dropbox.

Hector has spoken at several conferences around the world including the very first try! Swift in Tokyo! When he isn’t hanging out with his daughter, son, or wife, you can probably find him streaming video games on his Twitch Channel!

Anastasiia Voitova

@vixentael

Anastasiia is a software engineer with a wide background, she started her career as a mobile developer since iOS3, then deepen into security engineering. Now she has focused on cryptography/applied security, helping companies to build secure yet usable systems (oh yes, it takes efforts).

Anastasiia maintains open-source cryptographic library Themis, conducts secure software development training, often speaks at international conferences, co-organizes cyber-security events.

Tanner Oakes

@TannerOakes

Tanner Oakes has been developing iOS apps for nearly 10 years. After a stint in web development, he built mobile catalog apps for Neiman Marcus, media and robotics apps for worldwide clients at Bottle Rocket, and is now an iOS tech lead at Twitter.

Yuki Aki

@___freddi___

Yuki is an iOS Engineer at LINE Fukuoka. He contributes to OSS including projects like XcodeGen and docs of apple/swift and loves speaking at meetups and conferences to share what he has learned. He is organizing HAKATA.swift which is a local community of Swift, and speaking every time. He also loves drawing cats as his hobby.

Jeffrey Bergier

@jeffburg

Jeff is an iOS Developer from San Francisco now working at Mercari.jp in Tokyo. Jeff started his career as a UX Designer and transitioned to iOS Development full time. Jeff brings his design background to solve real-world development problems in simple and beautiful ways.

http://www.jeffburg.com

Julio Carrettoni

@dev_jac

Julio has over 10 years of experience with iOS, or should we say iPhoneOS? Working around small and mid-sized startups, he developed a taste for the pragmatic yet stable approach. It is impossible to predict what's going to be refactored out next week and what will be there forever. Recently he gave up to pressure and relocated to the Bay Area in an attempt to broaden up his vision and correct some of those nasty habits we all drag behind.

Mustafa Yusuf

@mufasaYC

Mustafa is a developer who started his iOS development journey the day Swift was released. He is currently working at SignEasy. In his free time, you will find him working on his indie apps, The Task App and Lingo.

Mohammad Azam

@azamsharp

Mohammad Azam is a veteran developer who has been professionally writing software for more than a decade. Azam worked as a lead mobile developer for many fortune 500 companies and played an integral role in their success. Azam is also a top Udemy instructor for mobile with more than 40K students. Apart from Udemy, Azam is also a frequent contributor to LinkedIn with top rated courses. At present Azam is a lead instructor at DigitalCrafts, software bootcamp. Azam has trained developers who are now working at companies including Apple, JP Morgan Chase, Exxon etc.

Tobias Due Munk

@tobiasdm

Tobias is an interface designer and software developer from Denmark. He runs a two person software studio out of Copenhagen where they realize app ideas, both their own and other people's. Tobias's conference talks and workshops are known for their high quality and for pushing the format. And then some sprinkles of fun.

Benedikt Terhechte

@terhechte

Benedikt started developing for the Mac in 2007. He's been hooked ever since. From 2011 to 2016 he worked as an indie developer on a Instagram macOS client, nowadays he works at the German social network XING and writes about Swift at www.appventure.me. He also talks on the ContraVariance podcast every second week.

Joe Masilotti

@joemasilotti

Joe is an independent polyglot developer who's passionate about clean, testable code. He writes about testing on masilotti.com and helps people ideate, develop, and test their products. Also, he's a digital nomad currently living in Montreal and loves to play board games.

Ritesh Gupta

@_riteshhh

Ritesh is a Mobile Engineering Manager at Fueled, working remotely from India (currently Bangalore). He has been developing iOS applications since 2013 and also loves to play with Kotlin multiplatform. He enjoys reactive programming and also writes about it on his personal blog riteshhh.com. He also had the honor of writing one complete issue (295th) of iOS dev weekly & has given multiple talks in various meetups/conferences. When he is not coding, you can find him exploring street food or food markets.

Danilo Campos

@_danilo

As a teenager, Danilo accidentally learned to code in Second Life. He’s been designing, developing and shipping software ever since. After leading mobile projects at startups like Hipmunk, Level Money and FutureAdvisor, he now works as an independent product design and development consultant, with a focus on iOS.

Manuel "StuFF mc" Carrasco Molina

@StuFFmc

Based in Düren, Germany, near Cologne, Manuel Carrasco Molina, better known as StuFF mc, started programming with his C64 at age 11 in 1987. He entered professional software development in 1997 and has been developing since.

He founded the first French podcast about Apple in 2005 and dove into iOS development at the launch of the SDK in 2008, after spending the first half of his developer career in the Microsoft technologies. He ran ObjCGN.com/SwiftConf.com from 2012 to 2017 which he left at 7P after moving to further challenges.

When he's not developing for the Apple Platforms Stuff is an involved activist and/or local politician (4 years at the city council) in the matters of environment (Hambach Forest) and refugees — he spent a few times in east european countries helping his brothers and sisters. Stuff's mother tongue is French, but he also speaks fluently German, English and Spanish, while speaking a bit of Dutch, Arabic and Italian.

Curtis Colly

@curtiscolly

Curtis Colly is self-employed as a full-stack web application and iOS developer. Having built a variety of consumer oriented web apps in a myriad of web languages, he appreciates the safety and efficiency that the statically typed Swift offers. He strives to make his code functional, durable and scalable. Curtis enjoys seeking hidden truths. As a result, he appreciates good conversations, experiencing difference cultures and testing innovative ideas in the real-world. He is currently working on a video app for people to share meaningful thoughts on various topics.

Zack Shapiro

@ZackShapiro

Zack Shapiro is an iOS engineer and has been writing Swift since the day it was announced. Previously he was the Director of Engineering at Bump, a mobile streetwear marketplace and Head of Mobile at SplashThat. Currently, he is the Co-Founder and Editor of Better Programming, the fastest-growing tech publication on Medium in 2019, and is exploring ideas for his next company.

Eli Budelli

@elibud

Eli Budelli has spent most of her professional career developing mobile apps, from the Palm Pilot to the iPhone 11. She has worked as a developer and release manager for the WordPress iOS app. In her current role as Head of Apps at Automattic she leads a 60+ people team distributed across 18 countries.

Cate Huston

@catehstn

Cate spent her career working on mobile and documenting everything she learnt using WordPress, eventually joining Automattic to combine the two as mobile lead. At Automattic, she eventually lead other teams and took on a broader role across the engineering organization. Cate admins the New-(ish) Manager Slack and her writing on leadership regularly appears in Quartz. You can find her on Twitter at @catehstn and at cate.blog.

Neem Serra

@TeamNeem

Neem Serra is mobile developer at Slalom in St. Louis. She is the current North American Women Techmakers lead as well as the local chapter lead. She loves to teach programming, speaking at conferences, and helping promote people to be able to do their first conference talk. In her spare time, Neem loves to play with her baby, read comics, and host craft nights.

Jason Zurita

@jasonalexzurita

Jason Zurita is a self-taught software engineer working on shared libraries and infrastructure as the Team Lead of the Core Mobile Team at Squarespace. Having begun his career as an Electrical Engineer, he understands the challenge in changing careers, which is what drives him to try and give back to the tech community (contributing to open source, teaching, blogging, giving talks, etc.).

He enjoys learning different tech stacks and how they can be put together to create new and interesting projects, the Swift language, tinkering with electronic projects, and going for a walk with his wife, kids, and dog.

Chris Britt

@chrisbritt

Chris Britt is an award-winning magician and specialist in interactive magic tricks. In the past few months, he has performed virtually for Dell Technologies, Viv Labs and at dozens of private events. Adam Cheyer, the Co-Founder of Siri (the start-up acquired by Apple) said of Chris's performance, "Chris performed a mixture of mindfulness exercises and magic that made everyone feel so good. He was professional, charismatic and all-around amazing. I highly recommend Chris for your magic-related event, be it virtual, or back in the real world when such a thing as possible."

Craig Clayton

@thedevme

Craig Clayton is a self-taught, senior iOS engineer at Fan Reach, specializing in building mobile experiences for NBA, MLS and NFL teams. Craig has written three books and will be releasing his fourth book called SwiftUI projects in September. In the fall, Craig will be launching a new site called From Design to SwiftUI, which specializes in building beautiful SwiftUI app from design, to the market.

Chris Marshall

@ChrisMarshallNY

Chris Marshall has been writing Apple software since 1986, where his first Apple computer was a brand-new Mac Plus, maxed out at 4MB of RAM, and an external SCSI 20MB hard drive. In the years since, he has transitioned through numerous languages and frameworks, to arrive at Swift, with the various flavors of Cocoa. He writes Swift every day.

These days, Chris likes to explore the world of iOT and device control, and is also quite passionate about usability and accessibility. A huge believer in open-source and charitable software, Chris has written uncountable lines of code (Including a great deal of Swift), accessible via his GitHub repository.

James Dempsey

@jamesdempsey

As owner of Tapas Software, James has been coding and teaching Swift since it was announced. His open-source utility BuildSettingExtractor is the fastest, easiest way to extract Xcode build settings. He also sings about Swift as frontman for the iTunes chart-topping band James Dempsey and the Breakpoints. When not Swifting, he co-hosts The Weekly Review productivity podcast. James is a fifteen-year Apple veteran gone indie.

Guilherme Rambo

@_inside

On his day job, Gui manages a team of developers building an e-commerce app for the Brazilian market. He is also the developer behind apps such as AirBuddy, the WWDC app for macOS, and the iOS app ChibiStudio. Other than building for Apple’s platforms, Gui co-hosts the Stacktrace Podcast, speaks in conferences around the world, and loves to share his ideas on Twitter and his blog.

Natalia Panferova

@natpanferova

Natalia is running her own software development company and is passionate about Swift and iOS development. She is the developer behind Cleora - HTTP & WebSocket Client for iOS & iPadOS.

Natalia has been working with SwiftUI since its announcement in 2019 and loves to experiment with new APIs. She shares her experience on LOSTMOA Blog and on Twitter.

Timirah James

@TimirahJ

Timirah is a singer/songwriter, turned mobile engineer, turned Developer Evangelist. She's worked heavily in the startup scene building and launching iOS, WatchOS, and tvOS applications. Timirah is also a Swift Instructor on the O'Reilly Platform, and is heavily involved in the tech community as an international speaker, organizer, mentor, and tech workshop facilitator for several tech conferences and organizations –– including her own non-profit organization called TechniGal LA, which exposes women of all ages to learning and employment opportunities in STEM.

Fun Fact: She also released a code-inspired song called "Coderitis" on Spotify!

Jeremy Massel

@jkmassel

Jeremy Massel is a Mobile Infrastructure Engineer at Automattic. He works on release tooling, server-side infrastructure, and APIs shared by all of the Automattic apps. He especially enjoys working on projects that improve app stability, security, and user privacy.

Lorenzo Mattei

@LorenzoMattei

Lorenzo started programming on a C64 in late 80s and never stopped. Lately, he got interested in developing processes and tools to help teams to ship faster and with higher quality. He currently leads the Mobile Infrastructure team at Automattic.

Federico Zanetello

@zntfdr

Federico Zanetello is an iOS Engineer with strong passion for Swift, minimalism, and design. When he’s not busy automating things, he can be found writing at fivestars.blog and/or playing with the latest shiny toys ✨.

Adrian Eves

@swifteves

Adrian Eves loves all things Swift, especially on the watchOS and iOS platforms. When he’s not behind a computer, he’s off chasing his kids, training for the Ironman, reading, or listening to music. You can follow him on Twitter at @swifteves

Pavel Zak

@myridiphis

I am an iOS/macOS developer passionate about graphics, UX, and animations. For almost a decade I write mobile apps for a living, teach programming and occasionally speak at conferences or write blog posts about topics I could not find elsewhere (considering myself to be the slowest writer you can meet :).

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