Christopher Truman
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Torrance, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Truman is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building native iOS and Android experiences, currently contributing to Google’s Maps/Nav/Places SDKs. Based in Torrance, he has shipped production mobile apps at Postmates, Sony, eHarmony and startups, and brings deep expertise in SDK development, performance and cross-platform considerations. An early hobbyist who built Gameboy Advance homebrew in C++, he combines low-level curiosity with modern mobile UX sensibilities. He’s an active open-source contributor—improving CSS parsing for DTCoreText and integrating Readability into ShareKit—demonstrating a knack for pragmatic bug fixes and API integrations that improve developer-facing tooling.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Azusa Pacific University
Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
apim10
objective-c10
ios10
css10
shareware10
api10
parse10
oauth10
unit-testing9
coretext8
cocoa-touch6
macos6
uiscrollview6
mapkit6
xcode6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ShareKit/ShareKit
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Drop in sharing features for all iPhone and iPad apps
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on integrating the Readability API into the ShareKit project. Their contributions involved creating a new class (`SHKReadability.m`) and associated files to handle Readability-related functionality, including authentication, share form implementation, and bookmark submission. They also modified existing code to support both OAuth and XAuth authentication methods. Finally, they added the ability to archive or favorite an article.
ipadiphone
Cocoanetics/DTCoreText
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Methods to allow using HTML code with CoreText
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the project's CSS parsing capabilities, specifically addressing issues related to background color and RGB values. They fixed a bug related to background color in CSS and updated existing test cases while adding new test cases to ensure correct RGB parsing in the iOS environment. Further, the user performed code cleanup, removing unnecessary NSLog statements from the testing code.
coretext
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