Chris Rivers
Founding IOS Engineer at Hacking With Swift Live
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Rivers is a founding iOS engineer with eight years of focused mobile development experience and nearly a decade in product-driven engineering roles, now building AI-powered human performance coaching at Pinnacle. He has led mobile teams and cross-platform SDK delivery for spatial AR navigation at Hyper (formerly Dent Reality), and previously advanced iOS work at Dyson and Future plc, bringing deep expertise in AR, IoT, digital audio and location technologies. Chris combines hands-on engineering with team leadership—co-organising the global Hacking With Swift Live conference aligns his technical advocacy with community-building and charitable impact. His background in music technology and early career in pro audio sales give him a practical, user-centred approach to audio and sensor-driven features that many mobile engineers lack. Based in Bristol, he excels at turning experimental technologies into robust, production-grade mobile experiences.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Dauntsey's School, WiltshireBachelor of Science (BSc), Music Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Music Technology at Staffordshire University
Github Skills (22)
ios10
dotnet10
xna10
monogame10
swift10
macos10
csharp10
game-engine9
openal9
objective-c9
cross-platform9
linux9
windows9
3d9
game-development9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Lofionic/eta
Mar 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Lofionic/pop
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
An extensible iOS and OS X animation library, useful for physics-based interactions.
Contributions:4 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
physicsinteractionanimationos-xinteractions
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