Leo Dion
Senior Software Engineer at BrightDigit
Lansing, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeo Dion is the founder and principal developer at BrightDigit, bringing 13 years of software experience and a decade focused on the Apple ecosystem (iOS, macOS, watchOS) plus server-side systems. He’s been working with and evangelizing Swift since its inception—blogging, speaking, and producing the bi-weekly empowerapps.show podcast on Apple tech, Swift, and business. A hands-on engineer, he contributes to tooling like the Swift Package Index by migrating build validation scripts to Swift and improving performance, error handling, and automation. Based in Lansing, Michigan, he blends product-focused consulting with developer tooling expertise and a background spanning full-stack web and .NET work. Outside of work he’s a family-focused Michigander raising six kids, which he cites as a real-world test of prioritization and resilience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Lansing Community CollegeMA Digital Media and Art Technology (Telecommunications), MA Digital Media and Art Technology (Telecommunications) at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (22)
scripting10
build-automation10
error-handling10
swift10
spu9
testing9
objective-c9
spi9
spim9
uistoryboard9
gulp9
spmd9
macos8
githubaction-workflow8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftPackageIndex/PackageList
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
The master list of repositories for the Swift Package Index.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:71 commits, 11 PRs, 26 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Leo primarily focused on creating and maintaining a Swift package validation script. Their contributions included migrating a bash script to Swift, adding features like product validation and multi-threading, and incorporating error handling and timeouts. Furthermore, they addressed sorting issues, implemented improvements for different macOS versions and automated the validation process, showing proficiency in both Swift and build automation.
repositoriesindexswift-packagemasterswift
brightdigit/SwiftVer
Nov 2015 - Feb 2020
Easily Manage Versioning in MacOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS projects.
Contributions:8 releases, 260 commits, 34 PRs in 4 years 3 months
maccatalysttvosversioningswiftios
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