Adam Demasi is a software developer and founder with 14 years building utilities and distribution infrastructure for iPhone and Mac, best known for founding HASHBANG Productions and the app-distribution venture Chariz. He’s a long-time maintainer of Theos, the cross-platform build system widely used in the iOS jailbreak community, and a core contributor to Zebra, a popular package manager for jailbroken devices. Adam combines low-level build-system and DevOps expertise—having reworked makefiles and bootstrap tooling for Procursus—with polished UI work in Swift/Objective-C and frontend improvements for tools like appledoc. Currently at Seraph Secure, he’s applying his tooling and cross-platform porting skills to anti-scam software, having led a Windows-to-macOS port to broaden reach. Based in Adelaide, he balances entrepreneurial product work with active open-source maintenance, often solving platform gaps for developers who lack native macOS toolchains.
A cross-platform suite of tools for building and deploying software for iOS and other platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:8 releases, 48 reviews, 469 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Theos project by modifying makefiles related to iOS and other platform software building. They made changes to incorporate lzma compression, set default build directories, and add support for the iOS 7 simulator SDK. The user also added a makefile for SIMBL tweak development. Further work included using GNU du and adjusting build processes for building binaries and managing frameworks.
Contributions:13 releases, 9 reviews, 293 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Adam primarily worked on enhancing the Zebra iOS package manager. Their contributions include adding color extensions for UI elements, refining the appearance of package information views, and implementing new features such as a home screen section with settings. They also contributed to Swift and Objective-C code, modifying existing files related to the user interface and package management. These changes suggest a focus on UI improvements and functionality enhancements within the iOS application.
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Adam Demasi - Software Developer at HASHBANG Productions