Antoine Van Der Lee
Founder at SwiftLee
Opmeer, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolAntoine Van Der Lee is an indie founder and iOS engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tools, apps, and communities from the Netherlands. As creator of SwiftLee and co-founder of RocketSim and RNA Ventures, he combines hands-on engineering with product-led growth—his newsletter reaches 20K+ developers and RocketSim is used by teams at Meta, Strava and Runkeeper. He has a strong open-source footprint, contributing to projects like WeTransfer’s Mocker, OctoKit, and the App Store Connect Swift SDK, and specializes in making complex topics like Swift Concurrency and Combine accessible through courses and playbooks. Formerly a staff engineer and team lead at WeTransfer, he’s shipped production apps for large brands including KLM, RTL and Vodafone while maintaining a developer-first perspective. A regular international speaker, Antoine translates deep technical work into practical guidance that helps developers transition to indie or leadership roles. He pairs product intuition with engineering rigor, often focusing on tooling and testability improvements that improve developer velocity behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Communication & Multimedia Design, Bachelor Communication & Multimedia Design at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (53)
apiconnect10
scanner10
octokit10
swiftlint10
ios10
appstoreconnectapi10
mobile-development10
apidoc10
appstoreconnect10
api-client10
testing10
ui-design10
xctest10
xcode10
uid10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AvdLee/appstoreconnect-swift-sdk
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
The Swift SDK to work with the App Store Connect API from Apple.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS) & API Developer
Mobile Developer (iOS) & API DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 98 reviews, 187 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Antoine appears to be focused on the development of the iOS SDK for the App Store Connect API. Contributions include setting up the framework, implementing API interactions, and preparing for JWT signing, indicating involvement in both client-side and backend (API) aspects. The user added SwiftLint configurations, which further emphasizes a focus on maintaining code quality within the iOS SDK development. The addition of the example application demonstrates the user is also focused on the usability of the SDK.
apiapp-storeapi-connectsdkswift
AvdLee/CombineSwiftPlayground
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
A Swift playground explaining the concepts of the new Combine framework
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:1 review, 40 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Antoine primarily focused on implementing and explaining concepts related to the Combine framework within a Swift playground and a sample iOS project. They added examples of Combine publishers and subscribers, including `sink`, `flatMap`, and `@Published` properties. The user also updated the playground with pages to help users understand the Combine framework better and created a custom publisher for UIKit.
cocoapodscombineswiftioscombine-framework
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