Lucas Derraugh
IOS Engineer at YouTube
New Boston, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolLucas Derraugh is an iOS engineer with 14 years of experience building polished mobile and macOS experiences, currently focused on Substack’s iOS platform. He combines deep platform knowledge from roles at Apple (Photos + Camera) and startups like Level Home and Owlet with a knack for shipping user-facing apps and tooling. A prolific educator and communicator, he’s produced 180+ programming tutorials on YouTube and taught iOS development at Cornell, demonstrating an ability to distill complex topics for broad audiences. Lucas is an active open-source contributor — notably improving UI, backend, and build systems for the notable GitUp Git client — and he favors pragmatic, maintainable engineering over flashy solutions. Based in New Boston, NH, he brings a mix of product-minded development and developer tooling experience that helps teams move fast without sacrificing quality.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
7,019reputation
299kreached
89answers
3questions
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Github Skills (15)
objective-c10
git10
swift10
macos10
cocoa9
xcode9
ui-design8
build-automation7
startup6
oop6
ios6
rtf6
nsattributedstring6
iphone6
autolayout6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
git-up/GitUp
May 2016 - Jan 2023
The Git interface you've been missing all your life has finally arrived.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 62 reviews, 69 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lucas contributed to various aspects of the GitUp application, including UI enhancements, back-end functionality, and build process improvements. They implemented support for the GitHub Desktop button, added DiffMerge tool integration, and addressed Xcode 11 warnings. Furthermore, they fixed bugs related to file discarding during commit rewrites and improved search functionality. The user also worked on updating build scripts and project setup.
branchesversion-controlgit-hooksgit-addonsmissing
lucasderraugh/LDDWindowCollection
Sep 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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