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Josh Holtz

RevenueCat • Organizer of Deep Dish Swift • Lead Mantainer of Fastlane

Zach Brass

Mentor @ UnderdogDevs

Zach has been an iOS developer for over a decade at all different types of companies from startups to FAANG. He's also a mentor for Underdog Devs (go look them up). In his spare time, he's a dancer and dance instructor, and competes in the occasional pun competition.

Mikaela Caron

Swift over Coffee Podcast

Mikaela Caron is an independent iOS Engineer, and a member of the Swift Ecosystem Workgroup, who actively shares her expertise on social media, focusing on iOS development, building apps in public, and freelancing. She’s continuing to work on her indie app Fruitful, while also traveling as much as she can. She’s also an organizer for iOSDevHappyHour and loves giving back to the community.

Gui Rambo

Mac and iOS developer, security researcher

Gui Rambo is a Mac developer and security researcher from Brazil, known for apps such as AirBuddy and VirtualBuddy.

Thomas Ricouard

Staff iOS engineer @ Medium, SwiftUI addict, Open source lover

🍎 SwiftUI (and everything else 🍎) 🤖 AI prompt master (don’t ask) 👨‍💻 Staff iOS engineer @medium 🐙 Building open source apps 🇫🇷 Entrepreneur, iOS/macOS & more engineer 🫡 Previously @glose 📖 @google 🔍 & others

Thomas Durand

Indie Developer

Backend architect and security engineer by day, I'm also an iOS Indie Dev by night! On my free time, I'm building in public independent iOS app like SharePal and Padlok. I also share my discoveries while building on my blog. After a few talks, I'd like to continue growing in the community, sharing everything I learn along my journey of building indie apps, or reliable and scalable back-ends.

Tamia James

UX Designer and Co-Chair Of Women In Design

Tamia James is a Los Angeles–based UX Designer and Co-Chair of Women in Design. She blends psychology, community, and bold design thinking to craft meaningful digital experiences. Starting her journey with hackathons and Girls Who Code, Tamia now leads the Sketch LA community and teaches design fundamentals through her Udemy course "Designing Your First Mobile App with Sketch"

Samuel Hopstock

Software Engineer, Guardsquare

Samuel Hopstock is a software engineer at Guardsquare, where he was one of the first engineers working on AppSweep, a mobile app security testing tool. Initially, he contributed to the Java bytecode analysis engine for Android apps. Since then he has shifted his focus to analyzing and protecting native iOS, Android, and Flutter binaries.

Quentin Fasquel

Senior iOS developer @ Luni

Around the iOS scene since the beginning, Quentin has grown alongside Objective-C and Swift, working across teams from Palo Alto to Paris. After freelancing for a few years, he’s now back at an app studio—still shipping, still learning, still in love with the platform.

Oleksii Kirizii

Head of iOS @ bikemap

Oleksii is the Head of iOS at Bikemap, an Austrian-based company that offers navigation, routes-tracking and sharing services for cyclists worldwide. IT, UI, and graphics have been his passions since childhood, and he has found the perfect combination of these in the world of iOS development, which he entered 13 years ago and has enjoyed ever since.

Mike Gerasymenko

Staff iOS engineer at Delivery Hero, Berlin

Customer and quality focused mobile engineer in love with mobile platforms. I've been building software for quite a while: over 14 years of software development experience, 12 years of iOS. I have experience working on great products and I am excited to see them used.

Matt Massicotte

Apple Platform Developer

I like teaching, writing, and building modular components for Apple platforms. I've somehow been doing this for about 30 years now.

Mateusz Zając

Software Engineering Manager

iOS engineer–turned Engineering Manager with 10+ years of mobile-app experience. Deep understanding of Apple-platform design, development, and deployment, combining technical expertise with product vision. Collaborates daily with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive, user-centric apps end-to-end.

Alex Logan

Lead mobile developer at Unflow.

With a history of success on both the App Store and Play Store, Alex takes a passion for Apple and turns it into wonderful products.

An advocate for gorgeous apps where the codebase is just as nice to look at as the UI, Alex adores working with people from all backgrounds to get the best for our apps.

Outside of work, Alex spends his time building Four Sixteen & Running.

Marcin Krzyzanowski

Bugs Hunter. Swifter. Open Sourcer.

Bugs Hunter. Building Notepad.exe on Mac. Encrypting CryptoSwift.io, ObjectivePGP.com. Building text editors. Shipping on Linux.

Cihat Gündüz

Spatial-first Indie Developer

iOS Developer since 2011, Indie since 2022. Creator of open source tools like BartyCrouch (localization), HandySwift (utilities), and ErrorKit (error handling). Organizer of WWDC Notes community project. Lead iOS teams in 2 companies. Shipped 8 indie apps across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro including developer tools (TranslateKit, FreemiumKit), and consumer apps (CrossCraft, Posters, & more).

Ben Freiband

Duo Security, Software Engineer

Ben is a software engineer at Duo Security, where he works on the Duo Mobile app. With nearly seven years of experience in iOS ranging from leading as a startup CTO to collaborating on larger, security-focused teams, Ben is passionate about building products people love and fostering environments where learning and kindness go hand in hand. He has three cats and is a lover of all things nerdy.

More to Come!

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