Greg Combs
Senior Principal Applications Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolGreg Combs is a Senior Principal Applications Engineer in Austin with 16+ years of experience building iOS apps, macOS tooling, and backend systems, currently leading mobile engineering at Oracle. He is the author of multiple App Store apps (Oracle Tap, Open States, TexLege) and an active open-source contributor who improved core libraries like RestKit, demonstrating deep expertise in Core Data, networking, and testing. His background spans early MacOS development at Metrowerks through large-scale server and database administration, giving him a rare full-stack perspective that bridges embedded UI details and production infrastructure. Greg also brings academic rigor from a PhD in Political Science and experience teaching legislative politics, which informs his work on civic-data projects like Open States and TexLege. Colleagues know him as a jovial code critic who blends practicality with thoroughness and persistence—qualities he’s applied off the clock in a determined fight against brain cancer. He combines decades of shipping shipped products with a knack for refactoring legacy code and improving developer ergonomics.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Political Science, Texas Politics, American Political Institutions, Cum Laude, PhD, Political Science, Texas Politics, American Political Institutions, Cum Laude at The University of Texas at Dallasn/a, Computer Science, n/a, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Stackoverflow
4,252reputation
334kreached
57answers
17questions
iphone
top-5%
ios
top-5%
objective-c
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
objective-c10
ios10
ui-design10
coredata10
unit-testing9
iphone9
uitableview9
uid8
interface-design8
url-encoding8
restful-api8
interface-builder7
cocoa-touch6
shapefile6
uikit6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RestKit/RestKit
May 2011 - Sep 2017
RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Greg contributed to the RestKit framework by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and adding tests. They focused on improving the framework's functionality, including enhancing Core Data integration with store seeds, improving URL encoding for dictionaries, introducing a path matcher for resource path handling, and adding a date formatter for .NET date strings. Their work spanned both the core codebase and the test suite, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture and testing practices.
objective-crestfulweb-resourcesswiftios
steipete/PSStackedView
Jul 2011 - Oct 2011
open source implementation of Twitter/iPad stacked ui - done right.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the iOS-specific components of the project. Their commits focused on fixing memory leaks, addressing drawing and scrolling issues, and implementing features related to the menu and view controller interactions. They also modified the UI by adding new features like disabled states for menu items and adding image modifications. The user's work involves refactoring code by releasing retained memory, improving the overall user experience, and enhancing the application's visual appearance.
picture-in-picturereactipadstackediphone
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.