Graham Perks
Software Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGraham Perks is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building consumer-facing mobile products and leading engineering teams, currently working on Widget technology at Apple. He architected and shipped high-impact iOS and Android apps—most notably the Snap Kitchen app that drove over 20–30% of company revenue—and led mobile efforts for brands like Ray-Ban and Estée Lauder. A hands-on manager and founder, he has started three companies, shipped apps on day one of the App Store, and modernized CI, theming, and cross-platform toolchains for teams. Technically versatile, his specialties span Swift, UIKit, Kotlin, application architecture, and server integrations, grounded in a long history with Objective‑C, C++, Java, and REST backends. An active community contributor with 20,000+ StackOverflow reputation, he combines pragmatic product focus with deep implementation experience across UI, AR, and backend systems. Based in Austin, he brings entrepreneurial instincts and a track record of turning prototypes into revenue-generating products.
10 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Portsmouth
Stackoverflow
23,242reputation
5.4mreached
409answers
19questions
zsh
top-1%
ios
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cocoa-touch
top-5%
swift
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iphone
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switch-statement
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Github Skills (66)
autocomplete10
swift10
xcode10
macos10
zsh10
objective-c10
ios10
cocoapods10
carthage9
uitextview9
cocoa-touch9
clickable9
switch-statement9
git9
layout9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
graham-perks-snap/JSONViewControllers
Mar 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
graham-perks-snap/BSKeyboardControls
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
ipadiphonekeyboardiosipad-app
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