Kyle Hickinson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Brave
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolKyle Hickinson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Old Toronto with 11 years of professional experience and deep expertise in iOS development and interface design. He has spent eight years building pixel-perfect iPhone and iPad apps using Objective-C and Swift, mastering Xcode and core frameworks like UIKit and Core Animation. At Brave since 2018, he progressed from Senior Software Engineer to Senior Staff, driving mobile engineering and product-quality decisions at scale. His background as a co-founder and early freelance work shows a rare blend of hands-on UI craftsmanship, UX sensibility, and full lifecycle delivery from concept to launch. Comfortable with lower-level languages (C/C++), web APIs, and front-end technologies, he brings practical systems thinking to mobile UX problems. Known as a perfectionist, he pairs design-minded attention to detail with robust engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto Mississauga
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Github Skills (60)
wkwebview10
webview10
ios10
electron10
windows10
bottom10
linux10
chromium10
brave10
browser10
spacing10
firefox10
uicollectionview10
android10
swift10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-ios
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Brave iOS Browser
Contributions:1542 reviews, 1 commit, 1548 PRs in 1 day
swiftbravebrowserios
kylehickinson/SwiftUI-WebView
Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
A SwiftUI component to use WKWebView
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 11 commits in 3 years
wkwebviewswiftwebviewswiftui
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