Jim Rutherford
Director Of Product & Engineering at Braxio Interactive
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJim Rutherford is a design-focused software engineering leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience building engaging iOS and cross-platform apps and over two decades of broader development and tech leadership. As Director of Product & Engineering at Ingage and principal of Braxio Interactive, he bridges UX and engineering to turn designer concepts into polished apps for enterprises and startups, including work showcased twice in the Apple App Store. His background spans Swift and Objective-C, native Salesforce integrations, and contributions to notable projects like bringing Kaleidoscope to iOS and architecting the Blackberry 10 mail client. He’s comfortable across the full mobile stack—CloudKit, Core Image, drag-and-drop, CI and certificate pinning—and has led teams delivering for Fortune 10 clients as well as localized, offline-capable consumer apps. A former program chair and instructor in digital media technologies, he blends teaching, product strategy, and technical mentorship. Outside of work he builds acoustic guitars and runs half marathons, reflecting a mix of precision craftsmanship and endurance.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Vancouver Island University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
software-update9
macos8
autolayout8
dsl8
xcode7
swift7
snapkit6
user-data6
objective-c6
ios6
ipados5
crash5
error-handler4
sketch4
sdk4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jimrutherford/TPTCoverFlowMatrix
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:9 commits in 7 days
jimrutherford/TPTFanMenu
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:30 commits in 6 days
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