Ryan Nystrom

Ryan is a lead iOS engineer at Instagram working on app infrastructure in New York City. He is an avid open source advocate and contributor at Facebook on projects like AsyncDisplayKit. Ryan is also an author and presenter with RayWenderlich.com, publishing work on the Apple Watch, 3D Touch, and Reactive Cocoa.

Rob Napier

Rob is co-author of iOS Programming Pushing the Limits. Before coming to Cocoa, he made his living sneaking into Chinese facilities in broad daylight. Later, he became a Mac developer for Dell. It’s not clear which was the stranger choice. He has a passion for the fiddly bits below the surface, like networking, performance, security, and text layout. He asks “but is it good Swift?” a lot.

Scott Gardner

Mobile Software Engineering Manager (iOS) at The Weather Company (an IBM company). Swift and iOS Author at lynda.com (a LinkedIn company). (Likes using parentheses.)

Max Alexander

Max Alexander has been a contract iOS Developer for the last 2 years and recently has been the iOS Engineer for Hipmunk. He deeply loves reactive apps and always loves to evangelize teams to use RxJS, RxSwift, and RxJava whenever possible. He has a particular interest in Operational Transform and Offline-First application development On his leisure time Max contributes to GitHub Projects, develops games on Unreal Engine 4 and Unity.

Krzysztof Zabłocki

Programmer that loves solving problems with code, always looking for new and interesting challenges. Prior to iOS he did games and graphics programming. He’s worked with a lot of startups and big clients like: The New York Times, Headspace, Mashable, Unilever, Shell, The News International.

His work has received many awards including Apple Essential, Best of Year. He enjoys teaching and sharing his knowledge, which has led him to speak at over 20 conferences around the world and building libraries and tools used by thousands of developers, including immersive technologies like Playgrounds.

Sommer Panage

Sommer Panage는 현재 프리랜서 모바일 소프트웨어 개발자이자 서커스 예술가입니다. 이전에는 Twitter의 iOS와 Android 모바일 접근성 리드로 일했고, 리드가 되기 전에는 DM 및 스팸 방지와 같은 다양한 iOS 프로젝트를 수행했습니다. Twitter 입사 전에는 Apple의 iOS 팀에서 일했습니다. 스탠포드 대학에서 심리학 학사 학위와 컴퓨터 공학 석사 학위를 받았습니다.

Alexis Gallagher

Alexis is as an independent consultant, building all sorts of systems with Swift, Clojure, bash, a heartfelt sincerity, a nagging skepticism, and the motley wisdom from his past adventures in science, finance, and comedy.

Chris Lattner

Chris felt like there could be something which would retain the benefits of the C, Objective-C, and C++ family, but help move the industry forward. Compiler, languages, and tools enthusiast who has been dabbling in Swift for some time now. Active member of Swift Core Team, Swift Evolution participant, but not a fan of access control discussions.

Kamilah Taylor

Kamilah is a Sr. Software Engineer at LinkedIn, currently does infrastructure and features on the LinkedIn Learning app, and worked on the complete rewrite of LinkedIn’s flagship app. Previously she did robotics at Wolfram Research and UIUC, is a co-author of “Women in Tech”, and likes that Swift reminds her of an upgraded version of Haskell.

Kevin Ballard

Kevin works at Postmates, contributes to (and releases his own) open source libraries, participates in swift-evolution, and submits patches to the Swift project. He’s been writing Cocoa for over a decade, doing iOS development since iOS 2, and using Swift since the day it was announced. His current project is a baby girl and he can’t wait until she’s old enough to begin learning Swift.

Jesse Squires

Jesse is an iOS developer at Instagram who writes about Swift and Objective‑C on his blog at jessesquires.com. He’s the curator of the Swift Weekly Brief newsletter and co-host of the Swift Unwrapped podcast. He is fueled primarily by black coffee and black metal.