Summary
Neil Burchfield is a Mobile Application Developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building cross-platform apps and shipping over 50 production applications that consistently achieve high user ratings. Based in the Greater Chicago Area, he combines deep iOS and Android expertise (Swift, Objective‑C, Kotlin) with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and practical AI model deployment to embed intelligent features directly into products. He architects scalable, modular systems and GraphQL‑first APIs while automating CI/CD and distribution pipelines (Fastlane, GitHub Actions) to cut build and release latency. At Zillow and Cars.com he led migrations and optimizations that materially improved API response times and user retention, and he has a proven track record of driving measurable product impact. Neil mentors junior engineers and fosters rigorous UX, accessibility, and data‑driven iteration through A/B testing and analytics. A detail many miss: he blends end‑to‑end ML workflow orchestration with mobile UX craftsmanship, ensuring models are production-ready inside polished, user‑centric interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Mobile Development Software Development and Mobile Development, Bachelors Degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in Mobile Development Software Development and Mobile Development at Northern Illinois University