Christopher Bowns
IOS Developer And App Architecture Consultant at Freelance
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Bowns is an iOS developer and app architecture consultant with 15 years of experience building high-performance mobile experiences and modernizing legacy codebases. He specializes in low-level platform work—2D animation, AVFoundation video playback, and camera capture pipelines—bringing deep knowledge of Core Animation, RxSwift, and Obj‑C/Swift bridging to complex refactors and prototyping with SwiftUI. Christopher has shipped at-scale features for products at Square, Lyft, and VSCO and contributes to well-known open-source tooling like fastlane, demonstrating attention to build, release and integration edge cases. He excels at untangling messy app architectures—reintroducing containment patterns and decomposing monolithic view controllers—while still delivering stable releases under pressure. Based in Bend, Oregon, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a taste for elegant launch animations and build/tooling improvements that quietly improve team velocity.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Economics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Economics at Virginia Tech
English
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Github Skills (29)
apim10
objective-c10
ios10
fastlane10
analytics10
ruby10
automation10
api10
corebluetooth10
mobile10
swift10
automations10
bluetooth-low-energy10
futures9
google-apps9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
fastlane/fastlane
Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 39 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily focused on improving and maintaining the fastlane tool, which automates building and releasing iOS and Android apps. Their contributions included fixing typos in tool output, adding parameters to the `notify` action to prevent crashes and improve usability, and adjusting help text related to code signing. Furthermore, the user made changes to the Fastfile setup and corrected merge resolutions, demonstrating an understanding of the tool's configuration and codebase.
fastlaneandroid-appsappsdeploymentreact-native
troystribling/BlueCap
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
iOS Bluetooth LE framework
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to fixing typos and addressing deprecation warnings within the BlueCap iOS framework. The user also addressed issues in the demo project, specifically correcting errors and typos within the error handling code. Furthermore, the user refactored code related to notification updates and API calls.
cocoapodsdeserializationbluetooth-lebinary-serializationcorebluetooth
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