Kent Franks
Senior Mobile Software Engineer at Vanguard
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKent Franks is a Senior Mobile Software Engineer and iOS architect with 11+ years focused on mobile and a software career that began in enterprise Java and web development in the early 2000s. Based in Charlotte, he leads and mentors onshore and offshore iOS teams while remaining hands-on in Swift, driving architecture and implementation at organizations like Vanguard, TIAA, Lowe’s, and Capgemini. He consistently ships consumer and enterprise-grade apps and has experience across backend and Azure integrations from earlier full‑stack roles. Beyond day-to-day work he teaches Swift, co-founded and co-hosts a local Swift meetup, and publishes tutorials and side projects—most recently NetStak, a CocoaPods network layer. That blend of long-term systems experience, active community teaching, and ongoing open-source tinkering gives him a pragmatic architect’s perspective that favors readable, testable mobile code.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Parkway West High SchoolAA, General Transfer Studies, AA, General Transfer Studies at St Louis Community College
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Github Skills (11)
objective-c10
macos10
swift10
ios10
cocoapods9
xcode9
carthage8
service-layer3
netscaler2
ospf2
python2
Github contributions (5)
kefbytes/KefBytes_Swift_Crash_Course
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:58 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
kefbytes/StarWarsAPITest
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:31 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 6 months
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