Chris Amanse
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Amanse is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with 11 years of experience building iOS and Apple platform software at Apple after earlier work in cybersecurity at Symantec. He pairs deep Swift expertise and large-scale code refactoring experience—demonstrated by substantial contributions to the swift-corelibs-foundation project improving many core Foundation classes—with an interest in cryptography and hardware. Comfortable across backend and platform-level engineering, Chris also contributes to open source and prototypes hardware projects like drones when time allows, bringing a maker’s pragmatism to software problems. Outside of engineering he stays competitive playing basketball and table tennis, reflecting a collaborative, team-oriented approach to work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Ateneo de Manila University
English, Tagalog
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Github Skills (17)
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object-oriented-programming10
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realm9
macos7
pasteboard6
uiscrollview6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Dec 2015 - May 2017
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Chris's primary contribution focuses on refactoring and improving Foundation's core Swift code by implementing implicit getters for read-only properties. These changes were applied to several core Foundation classes, including `NSDate`, `NSString`, `NSArray`, `NSCalendar`, `NSCharacterSet`, `NSData`, `NSDictionary`, `NSSet`, `NSNumber`, `NSNumberFormatter`, `NSNotification`, `NSLock`, `NSKeyedArchiver`, `NSCoder`, `NSCFArray`, `NSCFString`, `NSError`, `NSHost`, `NSObject`, `NSProcessInfo`, `NSScanner`, `NSSwiftRuntime`, `NSThread`, `NSTimer`, `NSTimeZone`, `NSURL`, `NSURLRequest`, `NSUUID`, `NSXMLDocument`, and `NSXMLDTDNode`. This involved a large-scale code modification effort, demonstrating expertise in Swift and a deep understanding of the Foundation framework. The changes improved code readability and potentially enhanced performance.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
chrisamanse/CheckboxButton
Nov 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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