Larry O'brien
Software Engineer at Coursera, Inc.
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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RockstarLarry O'brien is a software engineer with 16 years of experience blending mobile development and technical writing, living in Kailua, Hawaii. He brings deep iOS expertise—contributing to Xamarin.iOS sample apps and updating demos for iOS 7/8 features, ARKit and CoreML—reflecting a practical focus on both platform updates and developer documentation. His career includes stints at Microsoft, Xamarin and the Gemini Observatory, signaling comfort across enterprise, startup and scientific domains. Equally at home writing as coding, he often frames complex engineering work in clear, usable examples for other developers.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (20)
objective-c10
ios10
xamarin10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
arkit9
coreml9
artificial-intelligence9
xamarin-ios9
http9
rest9
closures9
swift7
neural-network6
side-effects6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
xamarin/ios-samples
Dec 2012 - Aug 2018
Xamarin.iOS sample apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Larry's commits primarily involve the modification and documentation of Xamarin.iOS sample applications. They've made substantial changes to the AdMobAds binding, including adding documentation and fixing issues. Furthermore, the user has updated multiple samples to reflect changes to the iOS SDK, specifically focusing on iOS 7 and iOS 8 updates, addressing audio and 3D Touch functionality. The user has also worked on ARKit and CoreML examples.
ios-samplesample-appstvosxamarin-ioswatchkit
WHEARobotics/FRC2023
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Code for the 2023 season
Contributions:38 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 month
season
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