Nealon Young
Senior Software Engineer, IOS System Experience at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNealon Young is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of iOS-focused experience, currently shaping the Lock Screen and SpringBoard experience on iOS at Apple. He has driven consumer-facing features across Apple Watch fitness and activity systems and previously built production mobile apps at startups like Envoy and Twenty. An active open-source iOS maintainer, Nealon authored polished UI components such as NYSegmentedControl and NYAlertViewController that emphasize accessibility, animation, and developer ergonomics. He combines deep platform knowledge with a knack for UI polish and subtle performance/UX refinements that improve daily device interactions. Based in San Francisco, he holds a B.S. in Information & Computer Science from UC Irvine and brings both startup agility and large-scale product rigor to system-level mobile engineering.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Paul Central High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information & Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (10)
objective-c10
uid10
swift10
uikit10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
autolayout9
accessibility8
cocoapods7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nealyoung/NYSegmentedControl
Apr 2014 - Oct 2017
Animated, customizable replacement for UISegmentedControl
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:58 commits, 9 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Nealon primarily contributed to the development of a custom UI component, a segmented control, for iOS. Their work involved implementing touch tracking, improving the podspec, and refactoring UI elements with the use of a gradient layer. They also addressed minor bug fixes, added documentation, and implemented accessibility features. The contributions focus on enhancing the control's functionality, visual appearance, and usability.
animationuisegmentedcontrolanimatedcustomizableswift
nealyoung/NYAlertViewController
Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
Highly configurable iOS Alert Views with custom content views
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:99 commits, 3 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nealon primarily contributed to the development of the iOS application's user interface. They implemented new alert view features, including custom content views, text field integration, and various transition styles. The user also made several updates and improvements to the demo project, including adding new examples, cleaning up code, and fixing bugs. These contributions focused on enhancing the flexibility and functionality of the NYAlertViewController library.
alertcustom-contentiosconfigurable
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