Brian Litwin
Software Developer at SourceCred
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Litwin is a full-stack software developer with nine years of experience building impactful, user-focused applications from mobile to web. Based in Chattanooga, he contributes to notable open-source projects including GitHawk (an iOS GitHub client with 10K+ monthly users) and SourceCred, where he’s improved UI/UX, added features, and extended GraphQL-backed functionality. At Horizon Investments he applies practical engineering to production systems, while his solo work includes a performance-tracking iOS app for athletes that handles diverse metrics and analytics. His background blends hands-on mobile development, front-end component work, and data-driven tooling—skills informed by earlier roles in analytics, automation, and tax preparation. Colleagues know him for shipping polished interfaces and pragmatic feature improvements that elevate usability rather than just adding complexity.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Sociology at Duke University
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
ios10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
react10
jes9
debug9
wpgraphql9
jtest9
github-api9
wordpress-graphql9
jestjs9
graphql9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sourcecred/sourcecred
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
a social algorithm for computing cred
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 46 PRs, 131 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the front-end development of the explorer page, implementing new UI components and features. They created a `<ProjectDetail />` component to display project titles, incorporating the project's repository ID. The user also updated reaction types in the GitHub plugin by adding "ROCKET" and "EYES" and updating the GraphQL schema. Further, the user added an optional node prefix filter to the pagerankGraph and edge filtering to the same graph and also made UI improvements, highlighting table rows on hover and focus-within.
credit-attributionpagerankgraphcomputingcryptoeconomics
GitHawkApp/GitHawk
May 2018 - Nov 2018
The (second) best iOS app for GitHub.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:27 commits, 49 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the iOS application, GitHawk. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the app, including improvements to the bookmarking feature and fixing display issues within the issue view. They also addressed bugs and optimized the presentation of information, such as fixing issues with displaying links and updating the display of the notifications. Additionally, the user implemented a branch-switching feature within the repository.
ios-appswiftiosgithawksecond
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