Blair Mcarthur
Senior Mobile Developer (iOS) at TouchBistro
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBlair Mcarthur is a Senior iOS Developer with 12 years of experience building and leading mobile teams across Canada and previously New Zealand, currently shaping native iOS at TouchBistro. A self-taught engineer who started on iOS in 2011, he has been a de-facto tech lead at Top Hat, driving ObjC-to-Swift migrations, modernizing dependency management and CI/CD, and improving testing and release processes. He’s led small teams to rewrite major apps at Bidvine and shipped production-quality features at fast-paced companies like SkipTheDishes. Blair blends hands-on engineering with mentorship—pairing, code review, and process improvements are core to his leadership style. He maintains an active interest in open source (WeatherRules) and the iOS community, staying current with tooling and best practices to keep teams productive and codebases healthy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (30)
linter9
swift9
linting9
bazel-rules8
conventions8
cordova-plugin8
swift-package-manager8
swiftlint8
static-analysis8
sdk7
future6
bazel6
json6
futures6
cordova6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
carnivalmobile/carnival-sdk-cordova
Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Cordova Plugin for the Carnival SDK
Contributions:31 commits in 8 months
cordovasdkcordova-pluginmobilecarnival
Noobish1/KeyedMapper
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Swift KeyedMapper
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
macosswiftiosswiftui
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