Speakers

Mattt

Mattt is the founder of Flight School, a new book series about Swift. He spent the last three years at Apple as a technical writer, contributing to The Swift Programming Language, Swift Package Manager, and Swift.org. Before that, Mattt founded NSHipster and maintained several open source libraries, including AFNetworking and Alamofire.

Dave Verwer

Dave is a UK based freelance iOS developer, consultant and author of iOS Dev Weekly. Delivered every Friday, iOS Dev Weekly is a curated selection of the best articles, code libraries, design guidance and business/marketing tips as well as something to make you smile as you start your weekend.

Nick Lockwood

Nick Lockwood has been building iOS apps since 2009 and currently works at Schibsted in London. He is the author of iOS Core Animation: Advanced Techniques, and is responsible for several popular open source frameworks including iCarousel, SwipeView and SwiftFormat.

Florent Pillet

One of the authors of the ``Reactive Programming with RxSwift`` book, Florent has been developing for mobile platforms since the last century and moved to iOS on day 1. He adopted reactive programming before Swift was announced and has been using RxSwift in production since 2015. A freelance developer, Florent also uses Rx on Android and likes working on tools for developers like the popular NSLogger when he's not contracting for clients worldwide.

Egor Tolstoy

Egor is Head of App Platform Engineering in Avito. It means the responsibility for their client-side architecture, performance and release frequency. Besides it he's also a regular speaker and organizer of various conferences and meetups in Russia, co-author of The Book of VIPER and co-host of Podlodka Podcast. He's passionate about software design and task automation.

Vincent Pradeilles

Vincent started working on iOS apps back in 2011. For the last couple of years, he's been working at Worldline, where he contributes to building great apps for major French banks. He's spent the last year using the Internet to share the skills he's acquired, and he's very happy to keep on this trend at FrenchKit!

John Sundell

John builds apps, games & developer tools. He also makes Swift by Sundell - a weekly blog & podcast about Swift development. He has worked for companies like Volvo & Spotify, and is currently an iOS freelancer working with a Norwegian startup called Motimate. He’s the creator of several open source projects including Unbox, SwiftPlate, Marathon & Imagine Engine.

Chris Eidhof

Chris is one of the founders of objc.io and co-author of the books Functional Swift, Advanced Swift, and most recently App Architecture. Before that, he started UIKonf and Deckset.

Pim Stolk

iOS developer since 2008 and is working at the ING for the past seven years. Pim is a true mobile and technology enthusiast and is currently working on a new IoT platform mainly written in Swift.

Yoichi Tagaya

Yoichi is the original author of `{`Swinject`}`(https://github.com/Swinject/Swinject), which is the first and most popular dependency injection framework written in and for Swift. He is an iOS engineer and engineering manager at Mercari, which provides a marketplace app for anyone to buy and sell items in US, UK and Japan.

Mathieu Hausherr

Mathieu is a mobile application developer, currently building iOS and Android apps for connected cars at Virtuo Technologies. After 10+ years of native mobile development experience he continues to be amazed by ecosystem improvements and new frameworks.

JC Pastant

If you heard about an iOS engineer having an Android phone chances are you already know JC!
Passionate about software architecture he's always looking for new best practices to make iOS development a safer place.

Kateryna Gridina

Kateryna is a Mobile engineer at Zalando. She conducted several talks and workshops in conferences across the world. She likes knowledge sharing and she’s enthusiastic about all news in the Mobile world.

Max Howell

A single year as a scientist revealed the simple truth: chemistry is super boring. Turning away from industry, he threw himself into making apps. Fifteen years later, he’s made some splashes with THE package manager for Mac, Homebrew, and dozens of apps including Poncho, featured on Planet of the Apps. Dedicated to creating tools that make building apps easier, Max founded Codebase, a training lab and apprenticeship program, with his wife, Aleshia.

Jeffrey Macko

Mobile development enthusiast, lover of simplicity and efficiency. I automate everything that bores me. Working at SoLocal group.

Samuel Giddins

Samuel is a developer well-versed in the rituals of writing developer tools that occasionally work. By day, Samuel works on making the mobile developer experience at Square less arduous; by night he can be found breaking Bundler and CocoaPods. Before this whole ``developer`` thing, Samuel studied in the highly impractical Mathematics & Economics departments at UChicago, learning subjects such as ``numbers``, ``social theory``, and ``memes``. When not coding, Samuel is often in the kitchen, marveling at the fact that dinner smells better than it looks.

Vincent Leroux

Vincent is the co-founder of ELDIM, a company that provides innovative photometric and colorimetric equipment to the industry (displays, lasers, VCSEL,..).
Formerly software developer, he headed technical teams for 10 years before moving to company’s strategical development. He’s still directly involved in IT as security architect and Chief Security Officer.
His last challenge was to manage the building and optimisation of a production line dedicated to delivering optical metrological systems to Apple, used to check the face recognition’s manufacturing (aka Face ID) in production lines.
Vincent is also a Foreign Trade Advisor (CCE), nominated by the French Prime Minister to provide recommendations to the government and help companies manage their international expansion.

Andy Bennett

Andy is a veteran (20 years!) digital developer & all round “maker”; he’s been writing iOS apps for 7 years for the likes of Firef.ly (a travel startup), New Era and Unilever. Recently joined Trainline as Senior Mobile Developer, currently eyes-deep in the rollout of multi-leg, multi-inventory journeys across Europe!