Boris Bügling
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, Germany
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Top SchoolBoris Bügling is a software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently building developer-facing systems at Apple out of San Francisco while originally hailing from Germany. He focuses on user-experience across mobile apps and distributed build tooling, contributing extensively to high-profile open source projects in the Swift and Cocoa ecosystems—everything from CocoaPods and fastlane to SwiftPM, sourcekit-lsp and llbuild. His work spans mobile iOS development, build systems, automation and language tooling, often improving test infrastructure, installer flows, and edge-case robustness. Notably, he has deep experience coupling programming languages and build environments (e.g., xcode-install, xcodeproj) and has driven pragmatic fixes like Xcode download/caching, code-sign checks and build cancellation handling. Colleagues see him as a practical engineer who balances developer UX with low-level reliability, and his GitHub contributions show a consistent pattern of improving tooling, tests and CI for large developer toolchains.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Technische Universität BraunschweigAbitur, Abitur at Lessinggymnasium Braunschweig
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Github Skills (68)
dependency-management10
deco10
package-management10
image-processing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
language-server-protocol10
integrations10
ruby10
automation10
build-automation10
refactoring10
develop10
validation10
php-framework10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/cocoapods-packager
May 2014 - Jul 2016
CocoaPods plugin which allows you to generate a static library from a podspec.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:185 commits, 28 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Boris primarily contributed to building a static library from a podspec within the context of CocoaPods. They implemented the core logic for packaging the podspec into a static library, including building and linking the required components. The user also created scripts for symbol analysis and handled various edge cases, such as empty argument lists and resource bundles. Furthermore, they introduced dynamic framework generation and related build settings.
cocoapodspodspecstatic-library
contentful-labs/Concorde
Mar 2015 - May 2016
Download and decode progressive JPEGs on iOS.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 releases, 59 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Boris primarily focused on developing and maintaining the iOS application, Concorde, which decodes progressive JPEGs. Their work included implementing a decoding class, integrating with UI components to display images, and adding example projects. They also implemented a test suite using Quick/Nimble and added resilience against errors and crashes in the decoding process. Furthermore, they integrated the project with Contentful to handle caching, and added a performance test.
ios
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