Gary Atkinson
Freelance Software Engineer at Zorth
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Atkinson is a seasoned freelance software engineer and senior iOS specialist with over 20 years of experience building apps for iOS, iPadOS and macOS and a track record stretching back to founding Kudlian Soft in 1990. He combines deep platform expertise with hands-on product delivery—designing, implementing, documenting and shipping desktop and mobile software across Macintosh and Windows ecosystems. Gary has led iOS teams at xRapid Group and now drives freelance projects for Zorth and Stinky Kitten, bringing pragmatic architecture and polished UX to commercial apps. His background in pure mathematics and long history of creating developer tools like DataSweet and I Can Animate reflect a methodical, creative approach to problem solving and tooling. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs entrepreneurial experience running a software company with current freelance agility, making him equally comfortable with end-to-end product responsibilities and focused feature delivery.
7 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Kenilworth SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA), Pure Mathematics, 2.2, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Pure Mathematics, 2.2 at University of Liverpool
Github Skills (5)
bit10
api9
swift8
esp325
embedded4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
microbit-foundation/microbit-swift-playgrounds
Jun 2018 - Oct 2021
We've built a Swift Playground that lets you program the micro:bit. This also includes a Swift API for interacting with the micro:bit.
Contributions:57 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 4 months
apiswiftbitplayground
apple/swift-embedded-examples
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
A collection of example projects using Embedded Swift
Contributions:2 comments in 1 day
embeddedesp32nrfraspberrypistm32
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