Adam Tierney
Staff Software Engineer at Varo Bank
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Tierney is a product-focused Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with nine years of experience building and leading people-centered iOS teams across startups and agencies. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping apps, migrating major Swift codebases, and contributing to popular open-source tools like SwiftGen—with senior leadership roles that included managing and coaching teams of 10 and delivering mobile products in regulated domains such as fintech and healthcare. At Varo Bank and prior at Rightpoint and Raizlabs, he’s balanced architecture, product thinking, and execution to launch high-impact mobile experiences and integrations for IoT, identity, and audio. Comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders, he started his career as an early technical hire who helped a travel app secure $1.6M in funding, reflecting a long-standing knack for turning product vision into measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature with an Emphasis on Creative Writing, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Literature with an Emphasis on Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-MadisonCretin-Derham Hall High School
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Github Skills (9)
swift10
ios10
code-generation9
unit-testing8
xcode6
parse-platform6
uiscrollview6
corelocation6
iphone6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftGen/SwiftGen
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
The Swift code generator for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, … — Get rid of all String-based APIs!
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 29 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on updating and maintaining the SwiftGen project, a Swift code generator. Their contributions involved migrating the codebase to Swift 3 syntax, which included various code modifications across different modules like GenumKit, and swiftgen-cli. The user also updated dependencies, addressing compiler errors, and ensuring the project's compatibility with newer Swift versions. They also made several changes in the testing suite.
code-generationcode-generatorswiftiostemplates
MyZenKey/sp-sdk-ios
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
ZenKey Service Provider Integration Package for iOS
Contributions:428 commits in 8 months
ios
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