Jed Lewison
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJed Lewison is a Senior Software Engineer at Apple with 11 years of hands-on experience building iOS system and media playback features, and more than 15 years across technology, media, and political communications. He founded Magic App Factory, designing and coding seven App Store apps that earned 1.8M+ downloads and a 4.5-star average, and has deep expertise in mobile video, AVFoundation, and low-level iOS frameworks. His background spans founding e-commerce and media ventures, driving streaming and HLS prototypes for Delve/Limelight, and building large online audiences—including a political blog that reached over a million monthly visitors. Comfortable both shipping consumer-facing products and working on system-level engineering (SpringBoard, AVKit), he blends product intuition with systems-level craftsmanship. Notably, he has applied political campaign strategy and communications experience to tech product launches, giving him uncommon strengths in messaging, growth, and cross-discipline leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science at Yale University
Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
carthage10
macos10
swift10
cocoapods10
networking9
cocoa9
swift-package-manager9
alamofire9
public-key-pinning8
package-manager8
certificate-pinning8
urlsession8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jedlewison/MAFActionSheetController
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jedlewison/AsyncOpKit
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:90 commits, 112 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 1 month
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