Derek Clarkson
Lead IOS Engineer at Mantel Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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SeniorDerek Clarkson is a Lead iOS Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years focused on mobile platforms and a software career stretching back to IBM mainframes. He excels at simplifying complex systems—re-architecting banking apps, stripping down over-engineered servers, and delivering production-quality iOS features for major clients like CBA, ANZ, Medibank and Latitude. A pragmatic technical leader, he mentors teams, presents clearly to non-technical stakeholders, and routinely uncovers core requirements to avoid unnecessary complexity. His background spans enterprise Java, backend systems and early mobile (J2ME), giving him a rare full-stack perspective that informs robust, testable iOS architectures. Notably, he has a track record of rapid prototypes and tangible impact: from a Flutter geo-tracking prototype for government use to shrinking SMS server codebases by an order of magnitude.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
beautifier10
ioc-container10
swiftpm10
inversion-of-control10
automation10
di-container10
in-app-purchase10
linter10
command-line-tool10
receipt-validation10
swiftui10
appstoreconnect10
ecosystem10
dependency-injection10
leancloud10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
drekka/Machinus
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Swift based state machine with many features
Contributions:8 releases, 117 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years
swiftiosstate-machinetransition-execution
drekka/Voodoo
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
A flexible mock server for automated and regression testing of iOS, Android and other apps.
Contributions:9 releases, 154 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 8 months
regressionmock-servertestingios-androidsoftware-quality
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