Dan Lichty
Owner at RPGbits
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDan Lichty is an experienced full-stack developer and founder with 15 years of building products for creators and early-stage startups across finance, retail, gaming, healthcare, and real estate. He architects serverless, event-driven systems on AWS and ships frontend and mobile experiences using TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, Django, Rails, and native iOS. At NorthOne he led migrations and designed microservice patterns to move customers and funds with minimal downtime, and he’s hands-on with pragmatic TypeScript patterns across mobile, GraphQL, and backend stacks. A longtime mobile contributor, he has patched and modernized iOS socket libraries (adding ARC, block-based callbacks, and connection state helpers) and continues to blend technical rigor with human-centered product design. Based in Guelph, Ontario, his current passion project is building websites and tools for the tabletop gaming community, reflecting a consistent drive to intersect technology with compelling human experiences.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
networking9
websockets-client8
websocket8
client-websocket8
websocket-client8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pkyeck/socket.IO-objc
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
socket.io v0.7.2 — 0.9.x for iOS and OS X
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan made several key contributions to the `socket.io-objc` library, focused on enhancing functionality and improving code quality. The primary contributions include updating the code to use Automatic Reference Counting (ARC), which is standard practice in modern Objective-C development. The user also refactored the code to use blocks for acknowledgment callbacks and streamlined event handling by removing the requirement for arguments in sent events. Furthermore, the user added `isConnected` and `isConnecting` getters and implemented a delegate method to handle handshake failures, improving the overall robustness of the library.
socketsocket-iowebsocketos-xios
danlite/zoofinder
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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