Kirby Turner
Principal Software Engineer at Breakpoint Studio
Stowe, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolKirby Turner is a seasoned Principal Software Engineer with over three decades of coding experience and 17 years in senior roles, currently leading engineering at Breakpoint Studio. He specializes in iOS and macOS development with deep expertise in Objective-C, Cocoa/Cocoa Touch, and has a strong Python/web2py background from his independent firm White Peak Software. Kirby has shipped consumer-facing mobile features—like KTPhotoBrowser’s pinch-to-zoom, rotation, and photo management—and contributed documentation and refinements to the Swift observation framework, showing enthusiasm for both UX polish and language-level improvements. Based in Stowe, Vermont, he blends solo-founder pragmatism with enterprise engineering experience from Apple and Avanade, and is known for quietly improving developer workflows through thoughtful documentation and code hygiene.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Memphis
Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
swift10
uikit10
ios10
user-interface10
ui-design10
documentation10
macros9
language-design8
programming-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kirbyt/KTPhotoBrowser
Feb 2010 - Apr 2012
KTPhotoBrowser is a lightweight photo browser library for the iPhone and iPod touch that looks and behaves like the iPhone Photos app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:155 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kirby primarily focused on developing features for the iOS platform. The commits demonstrate the implementation of a photo browser library, including views, controllers, and data source management. Key contributions include adding a toolbar for navigation, integrating pinch-to-zoom functionality, and implementing rotation support, reflecting a focus on enhancing the user interface and overall user experience within the application. Additionally, the user worked on thumbnail and photo management including integrating with the photo library and saving photos to the device.
objective-cipadbrowserbrowser-libraryiphone
swiftlang/swift
Dec 2015 - Jul 2023
The Swift Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 comments in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Kirby primarily contributed to the Swift programming language's observation framework. They added documentation to Observation symbols, and made updates to the Observable and ObservationRegistrar files, adding comments. They also applied review feedback, fixed a typo, and updated documentation links. Furthermore, they replaced fenced code blocks with indentations and implemented coding style suggestions.
swift-programmingswift-programming-languageprogramming-languageswift
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