Drew Olbrich
Independent Mobile Developer at Self-employed
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Olbrich is an independent mobile developer in Palo Alto with 10+ years building polished iOS experiences, from experimental social apps to production consumer hits. He designs and ships AR and physics-driven educational apps—currently creating an augmented-reality special relativity explainer for iPhone, iPad, and Vision—after previously authoring The Fourth Dimension, an interactive tesseract tutorial that earned 60,000 paid installs and multiple App Store features. His background spans startups and large teams as a senior iOS engineer and lead, including VSCO, Yahoo, and ML-driven video editing at TRASH, giving him a practical blend of product-focused iteration and technical leadership. Earlier R&D roles in 3D animation earned him a technical Academy Award, underscoring deep systems and graphics expertise rarely found in mobile-first engineers. He combines hands-on shipping discipline with a knack for making complex science accessible to general audiences.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
beautifier10
autolayout10
snapkit10
carthage10
swift10
android-apps10
layout10
dsl10
xcode10
android10
macos10
objective-c10
ios10
cocoapods10
ruby9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drewolbrich/ScrollingContentViewController
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 releases, 116 commits, 131 pushes in 4 years
milpitas/ContainerScrollViewController
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 releases, 224 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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