Justin Spahr-summers
Director at Fern Forest Games
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJustin Spahr-Summers is a seasoned software engineer based in London with 14 years' experience building and hardening developer tooling, SDKs, mobile apps and CI systems. He actively contributes to high-profile open-source projects including Homebrew, React Native, libgit2, Carthage and Octokit, working across Objective-C/Swift, TypeScript, Python and C. Known for pragmatic refactors and attention to low-level correctness, he routinely fixes memory and concurrency issues, streamlines builds and improves developer ergonomics—work that quietly reduces bugs and shipping friction. Combining technical craft with a people-first mindset, he bridges engineering and team needs to deliver reliable, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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uibutton
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iphone
top-1%
cocoa-touch
top-5%
cocoa
top-1%
macos
top-5%
ipad
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Github Skills (100)
atom-editor10
dependency-management10
json-parser10
node-js10
mobile-development10
python10
ui-components10
api-client10
testing10
authentication10
c1110
refactorings10
cocoa10
ruby10
c1710
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.objc
Jan 2013 - Mar 2015
GitHub API client for Objective-C
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 546 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Justin's primary contribution appears to be the development of the OctoKit Objective-C library, as shown by the initial code commit introducing the core client and data models, and numerous commits focused on building the API client and related data structures. This included adding models, implementing API requests for fetching data such as user information, repositories, and gists, and handling authentication. Subsequent commits focused on refining the library with better pagination and adding additional functionality.
api-clientobjective-capiios
modelcontextprotocol/servers
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Model Context Protocol Servers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 237 reviews, 139 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin implemented a Slack server within the Model Context Protocol (MCP) framework. They defined various tools for interacting with Slack, including functions to list channels, post messages, and manage threads. The code involved integrating with the Slack API using a client library, enabling communication and data retrieval from Slack channels. The changes indicate the development of a server to facilitate interaction with Slack using the MCP.
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