Jeroen Leenarts
Senior IOS Engineer at Stichting CocoaHeadsNL
Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJeroen Leenarts is a Senior iOS Engineer with over 16 years focused on mobile platforms and a software development career stretching back to 2002. He combines hands-on iOS engineering with developer advocacy, having led iOS developer relations at Stream and now working as a senior engineer while running AppForce1, a podcast and freelance studio aimed at the iOS community. He has deep experience across app architecture, UI coordination, and integrations—evidenced by contributions to notable projects like the WireGuard iOS client where he implemented UI flows and QR-based config import/export. Active in the Dutch developer scene as chairman of Stichting CocoaHeadsNL, Jeroen balances technical leadership with community-building and public-facing communication. His background spans full-stack and DevOps responsibilities from AWS microservices to mobile operations, making him comfortable bridging product, infrastructure, and developer experience.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Technical Informatics, Master of Science Technical Informatics at Open Universiteitprofessional bachelor Informatics, professional bachelor Informatics at WindesheimHAVO, HAVO at Thomas a Kempis College Zwolle
English, Dutch
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ui-design8
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cocoa-touch6
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Github contributions (5)
WireGuard/wireguard-apple
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Mirror only. Official repository is at https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-apple
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:156 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeroen primarily contributed to the development of the iOS application, focusing on the creation and integration of UI elements. They added core components, including an app coordinator, and view controllers related to tunnel configuration and information display. The user also introduced the ability to import and export configuration files and implemented functionalities such as scanning QR codes. This includes the integration of a scanning functionality to import configuration details from QR codes.
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CocoaHeadsNL/CocoaHeadsNL-iOS
Mar 2015 - Dec 2020
Repository for CocoaHeadsNL app.
Contributions:424 commits, 46 PRs, 373 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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