Kyle Bashour
Staff IOS Engineer at Pitou Technologies
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Bashour is a Staff iOS Engineer based in Portland with 11 years of experience crafting pixel-perfect Swift apps and design systems. He currently leads iOS work at Mercury and is the founder of Pitou Technologies, after helping build a cross‑platform design system and maintain Square’s open-source Blueprint UI framework. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the official Mastodon iOS app with dark‑mode fixes, link previews, navigation polish, and a new status card control. Kyle excels at shipping product-focused features by collaborating closely with design, product, and backend teams—work that powered Lyft driver experiences and a Rider Rentals integration. Beyond visible features he tinkers with developer tooling and architecture—he built the internal “Dark Yak” tooling at Yik Yak and helped design a sync layer that enabled a Mac client at Houseparty.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
mobile10
mobiledevelopment10
swift10
uikit10
ios10
mastodon10
mobile-development10
core-data9
xcode6
ios96
uialertcontroller6
iphone6
keyboard6
uiview6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mastodon/mastodon-ios
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Official iOS app for Mastodon
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:1 review, 26 commits, 8 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on improving the Mastodon iOS app's user interface and functionality. Their commits addressed navigation bar appearance, dark mode background fixes, and the addition of link previews. The user also worked on adjusting refresh control positioning within various views, including the profile, home timeline, and discovery sections. Additionally, the user implemented a new card control for the status view.
mastodoniosios-app
kylebshr/paku-vapor
Aug 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:23 PRs, 71 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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