Brent Whitman
Staff IOS Developer at Lightspeed Commerce
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolBrent Whitman is a Staff iOS Developer based in Vancouver with 14 years of experience building high-quality, user-focused apps across retail, media, telecom, and smart home domains. He blends hands-on Swift/SwiftUI engineering with product and design sensibilities—having led an 8-person mobile team at lululemon, launched a tvOS streaming app, and implemented multi-brand design systems and migration frameworks at TELUS Digital. Brent is also an active contributor to the Mapbox native SDK, improving iOS map rendering and offline tile handling, which highlights his expertise in performance-sensitive, cross-platform mobile graphics. A former founder and product manager, he pairs strategic thinking from an MBA with deep technical craftsmanship to deliver measurable product outcomes. He’s known for rescuing legacy codebases (CI/CD, arm64, and unit-test improvements) and turning complex cross-team problems into maintainable, testable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.B.A., Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, M.B.A., Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementB. Sc., Computing Science - Multimedia Specialty, B. Sc., Computing Science - Multimedia Specialty at Simon Fraser University
English, French
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Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
maps10
swift10
ios10
mapbox-gl10
opengl5
c-language4
cprogramming-language4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox-gl-native
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in native Android, iOS, macOS, Node.js, and Qt applications, powered by vector tiles and OpenGL
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 3 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Brent primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the mapbox-gl-native library. Their commits focused on addressing specific bugs and improving the overall performance and functionality of the iOS map rendering. This includes fixing a typo in coordinate calculations, optimizing animations, addressing a regression on iOS 8, and enhancing offline tile handling. These contributions demonstrate expertise in the iOS platform and its integration with the mapbox library.
mapbox-glios-androidc-plus-plusmap-matchinggeopackage
bwhtmn/mapbox-gl-native
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:23 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 9 months
osxmapboxmapbox-glios-androidlinux
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