Julian Hays
iOS Developer at Citizen
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarJulian Hays is an iOS developer with 11 years of experience, currently building mobile experiences at Citizen out of Minneapolis. He specializes in Swift and SwiftUI, with hands-on experience integrating iOS and tvOS clients with backend APIs, demonstrated by contributions to the native Jellyfin client SwiftFin. Julian focuses on practical UI problem-solving—fixing subtle visual bugs and enhancing navigation, search, and video player integration—to improve user experience across platforms. Comfortable shipping end-to-end features, he blends product-minded design sensibility with disciplined engineering practices. Colleagues would note his steady record of maintaining cross-platform parity between iOS and tvOS while iterating quickly on user-facing details.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
jellyfin10
swift10
swiftui-app10
ios10
tvos10
swiftui10
api9
apim9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/Swiftfin
Sep 2021 - Jun 2022
Native Jellyfin Client for iOS and tvOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 71 commits, 10 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to the development of the iOS client for the Jellyfin project, SwiftFin. Their work focused on fixing bugs related to UI elements such as episode locators and colors, and incorporating features for tvOS. The user added and modified UI components for the tvOS version, including library, search, and video player integration. Key areas include SwiftUI and integrating the client with the Jellyfin API.
iosjellyfintvosswiftuiswift
jhays/JHSpinner
Nov 2015 - Jul 2019
A unique animated loading spinner / activity indicator UIView subclass for iOS
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 3 years 8 months
activity-indicatoriosuiview
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