Kai Newsome
IOS Tech Lead at Pyrus.io Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Newsome is an iOS tech lead with 13 years of experience building mobile products, leading teams, and shipping production Swift apps across iPhone, WatchOS, and tvOS. He runs a long-standing Toronto Swift community—organizing meetups and the Swift TO conference—embedding knowledge-sharing and accessibility into engineering culture. As founder of Pyrus.io, he blends pragmatic consulting, prototyping, and CI/test-driven practices to help organizations scale sustainably. His background includes leading mobile products at YogaGlo and enterprise work at Scotiabank and Loblaw, plus full-stack open-source contributions to projects like Strider CI/CD that touch both frontend and backend reliability. Colleagues rely on him for modular architecture, mentorship, and pragmatic program management that keeps teams shipping.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Bachelor’s Degree, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services at University of Guelph
English
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Github Skills (17)
continuous-deployment10
javascript10
continuous-integration10
nodejs10
ipad9
expressjs9
angularjs9
emberjs9
angular9
html7
lessc7
swift6
xcode6
iphone6
uiimage6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Strider-CD/strider
Aug 2014 - Jul 2015
Open Source Continuous Integration & Deployment Server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 25 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements across both the frontend and backend of the Strider CI/CD platform. They addressed issues related to UI elements, such as layout and login forms, as well as backend logic, by fixing 404 responses and preventing simultaneous job queuing. Their contributions also included adding event emitters for plugin configurations and order changes.
devopsdeploymentcontinuousdockerkubernetes
bitwit/lemonade-startup
Apr 2014 - May 2020
Developed for Toronto Game Jam 9 (#TOJam 2014)
Contributions:62 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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