Avery Pierce
Senior IOS Engineer at SpotHero
Streamwood, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvery Pierce is a Senior iOS Engineer with 11 years of experience building native mobile experiences and a solid foothold in full‑stack web development. He has moved between hands‑on engineering and leadership roles—from iOS developer at Parts Town to Mobile Product Engineer and Engineering Manager at Spin, through freelance work with Toptal, and recent senior positions at Grindr and SpotHero. Avery contributes to notable open-source projects like the matrix-ios-sdk, where he improved macOS compatibility and refined Swift APIs, showing attention to cross-platform SDK durability. He combines product-minded mobile craftsmanship with practical build-system and platform-level problem solving, often tackling regressions and complex compatibility work. Based in Streamwood, Illinois, he maintains a public portfolio (averypierce.me) and a GitHub presence that reflect a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to shipping reliable apps.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Information Technology Project Management, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Information Technology Project Management at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Github Skills (5)
objective-c10
macos10
ios10
sdk10
swift9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-org/matrix-ios-sdk
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
The Matrix SDK for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:94 commits, 11 PRs, 18 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Avery primarily contributed to improving the iOS SDK for the Matrix platform. Their work focused on adding macOS build targets and ensuring overall macOS compatibility for the SDK, which included changes to build configurations and adapting existing code to the macOS environment. They also addressed regression issues affecting the iOS edition of the framework. In addition, they updated the license on a Swift file and added Swift refinements to several MXSession-related APIs.
the-matrixsdkmatrix-sdksdk-for-iosmatrix
avery-pierce/Cavy
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Lemmy client for iOS, written in Swift
Contributions:246 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 months
swiftioslemmy
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