John Mcintosh
Principal Software Engineer at Afresh
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Mcintosh is a Principal Software Engineer in Austin with 14 years of experience building and scaling mobile platforms, SDKs, and cross-team engineering practices. He excels at setting up people and processes for long-term success, mentoring engineers into leadership roles while removing technical and organizational friction. His hands-on contributions span iOS app architecture, server-driven UIs, and CI/automation—highlighted by XCFramework and dSYM support work in CocoaPods that improved iOS SDK integration for many users. At product companies he has driven revenue and reliability gains (200% revenue lift, 99.99% crash-free releases) and cut support costs through automation. He regularly contributes to open-source iOS tooling, improving build systems and developer workflows, and has presented mobile architecture at SXSW. Calm under pressure and pragmatic, he blends deep technical craft with a knack for aligning engineering work to business outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Engineering major Business minor, Bachelors Computer Engineering major Business minor at Auburn University
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Github Skills (21)
dependency-management10
objective-c10
build-script10
ios10
uid10
xcode10
automation10
front-end-development10
swift10
macos10
automations10
animation9
ui-design9
uikit9
package-manager8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bryanjclark/SwiftTweaks
May 2017 - Feb 2020
Tweak your iOS app without recompiling!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the SwiftTweaks project, focusing on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the iOS application. Their work included updating Swift 3 syntax for animation templates, refining the layout and behavior of tweak table cells to dynamically support overlapping content, and addressing a truncation issue introduced in iOS 13. They also added support for initializing a TweakWindow with a UIWindowScene.
iosswiftdesigntweaksmagic-numbers
facebookarchive/Tweaks
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
An easy way to fine-tune, and adjust parameters for iOS apps in development.
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the FBTweak library to support new features for iOS app development. They implemented support for dictionary and array data types within the tweaking mechanism, allowing developers to configure apps with more complex settings. The changes involved modifications to the UI elements to accommodate the new data types and adding corresponding view controllers for managing dictionary and array values. They also improved documentation and examples to facilitate understanding of these new capabilities.
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