Neil Cowburn
Principal Engineer at Feeld
Brynsiencyn, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorNeil Cowburn is a Principal Engineer with over 16 years of professional experience and a 20+ year history building software across mobile, embedded and web platforms. Currently at Feeld, he drives iOS architecture, Swift best practices, release automation and cross-platform bug hygiene while mentoring teams and maintaining CI/CD and Fastlane pipelines. He’s polyglot by preference—Swift, Go and Rust feature among his favorites—and has a track record of shipping both client apps and backend services, including performance-driven rewrites that cut image delivery times from seconds to milliseconds. An active open-source contributor, he’s enhanced Objective-C ergonomics in well-used libraries and added iOS In-App Purchase promotion support for React Native. Based in Wales, he prefers permanent remote roles and brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering, API/SDK design and product-focused craftsmanship.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
set-operations10
data-manipulation10
storekit10
swift10
safari9
javascript9
iphone9
google-plus9
software-design8
coregraphics6
nsdate6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
supermarin/ObjectiveSugar
Nov 2012 - Nov 2013
ObjectiveC additions for humans. Ruby style.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the Objective-C codebase by adding and modifying array and set methods, mirroring Ruby's array and set functionalities. They implemented methods like `includes`, `take`, `push`, `pop`, and set operations such as `intersectionWithArray`, `unionWithArray`, `relativeComplement`, and `symmetricDifference`. The user's work also involved writing and updating unit tests to validate the functionality of the added methods.
objectivecadditionsrubyfoundationfor-humans
hyochan/react-native-iap
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
In App Purchase module for React Native!
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to the iOS implementation of the React Native In-App Purchase module. They focused on adding support for iOS In-App Purchase promotions, including the ability to get and buy promoted products. The user addressed issues related to promoted product events and discount prices. Their work involved modifications to the iOS-specific code (RNIapIos.m, IAPPromotionObserver) and associated JavaScript interface files.
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