Akhil Balan
Lead IOS MacOS Web Developer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhil Balan is a Staff Software Engineer and Lead iOS/macOS/Web Developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building production-grade mobile and desktop applications. He has shipped iOS work continuously since 2009, spanning Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI, and brings six years of macOS experience plus practical ML integration using CoreML/CreateML for social media analysis at Apple. Akhil has led cross-functional teams and designed reusable frameworks (notably a dynamic Swift framework at BlueJeans) and has deep familiarity with CI/CD and SDK distribution tooling like Jenkins, Carthage and CocoaPods. His background also includes server-side Java/J2EE product development and early enterprise performance-monitoring and audit apps for Apple, giving him strong end-to-end product sensibilities. An active GitHub presence underscores a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to solving platform-specific problems. He pairs a mechanical engineering foundation with hands-on mobile craftsmanship and a track record of mentoring and technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, First Class at Kannur University
Malayalam, Hindi, English
Github Skills (124)
audio-player10
audiotoolbox10
jsqmessagesviewcontroller10
radial10
avaudioplayer10
avfoundation10
swift10
xcode10
viewcontroller10
macos10
audio-visualizer10
objective-c10
ios10
avplayer10
cocoapods10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akhilcb/ACBRadialCollectionView
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
An extension on UICollectionView which automatically transforms collection view cells to a radial path
Contributions:18 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
arccircularcollectionviewcollectionviewlayoutios
akhilcb/ACBAVPlayerExtension
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
An extension on AVPlayer which converts it to have all useful features of AVAudioPlayer but with streaming support. Also added additional methods to support Audio visualization from AVPlayer streaming.
Contributions:27 commits, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
audio-playeraudio-processingaudio-streamingaudio-visualizeraudiotoolbox
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