Ken Case
CEO at The Omni Group
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Case is the founder, Chairman and long-time CEO of The Omni Group, combining more than three decades of hands-on software engineering with executive leadership. A computer geek at heart, he continues to design and ship macOS, iOS and watchOS products while actively contributing to the company's iOS frameworks and codebase. Before founding Omni he built systems and applications across 18 operating systems and worked as a contract programmer at NeXT, shaping his focus on the NeXT-derived Apple platforms. He’s known for pragmatic engineering—refactoring legacy code, improving UI components, and modernizing APIs to make teams more productive. An early open-source contributor and daily emacs/vi user since the ’80s, he blends deep technical craft with product intuition. Based in Seattle, he leads a small, enduring company culture that values sustainable product design and continuous code-level involvement.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (7)
xcode10
web-framework10
objective-c10
php-framework10
ios10
ui-design9
file-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
omnigroup/OmniGroup
Jun 2011 - Jun 2011
Source for many of The Omni Group's frameworks
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 branches in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ken primarily worked on improving the Omni Group's iOS frameworks, making changes to the UI and fixing various bugs. They refactored code to use modern iOS conventions, such as updating table view initializers and fixing Xcode 4.2 warnings. Additionally, they added and modified methods related to file management and UI components. The contributions focused on making code safer and clearer.
frameworks
omnigroup/Customer-Policies
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
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