Franklin Schrans
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFranklin Schrans is a software engineering manager at Apple with 11 years of experience building developer tools and compiler-adjacent systems, primarily around Swift, Swift-DocC and Xcode. He progressed from intern to manager at Apple, combining hands-on backend and automation work with technical leadership across documentation tooling and developer workflows. Franklin has contributed to the high-profile swift-docc open-source project, adding language-specific overrides, refactoring internal models and improving test automation for variant handling. Based in London and trained at Imperial College London, he brings a strong academic foundation in computer science and a practical history of shipping robust engineering features at scale. A detail-oriented engineer, he often focuses on internal model design and encoder robustness—areas that quietly improve long-lived tooling reliability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, French Baccalaureate in Sciences with Further Maths, High School, French Baccalaureate in Sciences with Further Maths at Lycée Français Jean Monnet (Brussels)Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Imperial College LondonFrench International School of Hong Kong
French, Chinese, English, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
json10
swift10
document-generation10
documents10
documentation10
automation-testing9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-docc
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Documentation compiler that produces rich API reference documentation and interactive tutorials for your Swift framework or package.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:472 reviews, 84 commits, 124 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Franklin primarily focused on enhancing the documentation compiler for Swift, adding support for language-specific overrides in Render JSON and variant title specifications within the `swift-docc` repository. They contributed to the refactoring of the code, specifically in areas related to the internal model and JSON encoders. Further, they worked on automation aspects through the creation of a test suite for applying variant overrides.
apiswiftpmcompilerinteractive-tutorialsswift
franklinsch/driverlesscarsimulations
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
A Simulation Platform for Autonomous Vehicle Networks
Contributions:376 commits, 10 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
roboticsautonomoussimulationsimulatorvehicle
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