Summary
Garrison Locke is a Senior iOS Engineer with 18 years of experience building native mobile apps, APIs, and cloud-backed services across startups and enterprise teams. He has led engineering at product-focused companies—co-founding two ventures—and currently drives iOS development at Pocket Prep after a principal engineering role through WillowTree’s acquisition by TELUS Digital. Deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C and CoreMotion is paired with hands-on experience in API design, PHP backends, and AWS infrastructure. He’s shipped medical-grade sensor-driven apps that leverage gyroscope and accelerometer data for physical therapy and built reusable CocoaPods libraries to accelerate cross-product development. Comfortable operating as a sole engineer or as a principal technical leader, he blends product sensibility with operational ownership. Based in Fuquay-Varina, NC, he combines a CS degree with a creative-writing BA, a background that helps him turn complex technical problems into clear user-focused solutions.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English - Creative Writing Concentration, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English - Creative Writing Concentration at North Carolina State University
English, French