Lucas Farah is a Senior iOS Developer from São Paulo with 11 years in software and 8 years focused on building production-grade mobile apps across banking, health, entertainment, and travel for US and Brazilian teams. He specializes in Swift and Objective-C using MVVM/MVC, RxSwift, GraphQL, CI/CD, and modern frameworks like SwiftUI and Combine, and has built modular architectures with Tuist. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved popular Swift utility projects (e.g., EZSwiftExtensions and DatePickerDialog) to streamline UI and developer ergonomics. Lucas is a multi-award hackathon winner (17+ awards from organizations such as ESPN, NFL, and IBM), a proven remote collaborator on multinational teams, and a practical builder who often ships apps from scratch. He combines a hacker’s curiosity—evident in his open-source tweaks—with a track record of delivering user-focused solutions in regulated and consumer domains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at San Francisco State University
High School, High School at Archbishop Riordan High School
iOS Programming, iOS Programming at Interactive Arts Institute
:smirk: How Swift standard types and classes were supposed to work.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:170 commits, 162 PRs, 101 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas primarily contributed to the Swift-based iOS extension library by adding and modifying methods to existing Swift types. Their work included creating extensions for String, UIViewController, UIFont, NSAttributedString, and UIImage, enhancing their functionality by adding methods for tasks like string manipulation, UI element styling and image handling. These extensions provide convenient utility functions, improving developer productivity.
Contributions:33 commits, 18 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Lucas focused on enhancing the date picker dialog for iOS. Their contributions included adding a callback for the cancel button, fixing appearance issues, and integrating color and locale customization. They also addressed string formatting in the example and improved the overall example implementation and documentation.
date-pickerdatepickerdialogswiftios
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