Buzz Andersen
Staff IOS Engineer at Fable
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBuzz Andersen is a Staff iOS Engineer with 17 years of experience building polished mobile experiences and leading product-focused teams across startups and mid-size companies. Based in Los Angeles, he currently drives iOS development at Aura Home while also contributing senior engineering leadership at Fable, bringing deep expertise in Cocoa, UI design, and secure client-side storage. His career includes founding consumer apps and leading mobile at Tumblr and Square, reflecting a strong mix of entrepreneurial product instincts and large-scale app engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved security and UI responsiveness in iPhone projects by fixing memory leaks, hardening keychain storage, and adding reusable UI components. Known for translating product needs into elegant, secure interfaces, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a designer’s attention to detail.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Digital Media/Computer Science, BA Digital Media/Computer Science at University of Denver
Github Skills (9)
uid10
objective-c10
user-interface10
ios10
keychain10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
memory-management9
error-handling8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ldandersen/scifihifi-iphone
Oct 2008 - Dec 2016
Open source iPhone code
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:26 commits, 1 push in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Buzz primarily focused on modifying and improving the SFHFKeychainUtils library, a component for secure storage. Their work included fixing memory leaks, addressing security vulnerabilities related to improper password storage, and implementing better error handling. They also added new UI components, SFHFActivityIndicatingCell and SFHFEditableCell, along with UIWebView+SFHFStringMetrics, indicating a focus on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the application. Additionally, the user implemented features to improve UI responsiveness and user interaction within the iOS application.
swiftiosiphone
ldandersen/STUtils
Jun 2012 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
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