Darryl Bayliss
Technical Lead at Kodeco
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDarryl Bayliss is a Technical Lead based in London with 11 years of experience designing and shipping mobile-first products across Android and iOS, and a particular affection for mobile and cloud technologies. He has led engineering teams and tribes, built platform SDKs, and introduced Mobile CI and analytics-driven features that helped lift apps from poor ratings to industry recognition. As a hands-on engineer he’s contributed to high-profile open-source projects like CocoaPods, improving installer UX and code maintainability, and has authored and edited over 20 tutorials and several editions of Android Apprentice and Jetpack Compose books. He excels at translating product needs into developer-friendly platforms, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical strategy across distributed teams. Notably, he’s been the first Android hire to bring app development in-house at scale and has supported international integrations for transport partners serving millions of users. His background spans academia and research to commercial product delivery, giving him a practical curiosity for tooling, performance and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computing (Software & Systems) Software Engineering Object Oriented Programming Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence, Computing (Software & Systems) Software Engineering Object Oriented Programming Mobile Development Artificial Intelligence at Edge Hill University
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Github Skills (15)
dependency-manager10
package-manager-tool10
objective-c10
package-manager10
cocoapods10
autolayout9
ios9
xcode9
android-emulator6
plist6
uipageviewcontroller6
eclipse6
android-room6
android6
java6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Darryl focused on modifying the installer component of the CocoaPods project. Their commits primarily involved refactoring the text displayed during de-integration and reintegration processes, making the messaging less verbose. They also addressed code style by switching to hash rocket syntax and ensuring a configuration parameter was a symbol. These changes suggest a focus on improving the user experience and maintainability of the CocoaPods installation process.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
kodecocodes/java-style-guide
Jun 2015 - Feb 2021
The official Java style guide for raywenderlich.com
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 comments, 3 issues in 5 years 9 months
javastyle-guideraywenderlich
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