Oliver Dowling
Software Developer at Self-Employed
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Dowling is a versatile software developer with 11 years of experience building web, desktop and iOS applications across PHP, .NET, Objective-C/Swift and modern front-end stacks. Based in Newcastle, Australia, he blends practical systems knowledge—Apache/IIS, MySQL/MSSQL and cross-platform OS troubleshooting—with design skills from Adobe Creative Suite to deliver polished user experiences. A long-time self-employed developer and former consultant for game and web studios, he contributes to open-source iOS tooling (notably improving FontAwesome.swift’s rendering and API ergonomics). Comfortable spanning full-stack delivery and tooling, he’s known for pragmatic refactors that improve visuals and reliability as much as functionality.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Newcastle
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Github Skills (14)
swift10
ios10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
nsattributedstring9
uiimage9
uid9
recursion6
uiimageview6
html6
oop6
uitableview6
php6
math6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thii/FontAwesome.swift
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Use FontAwesome in your Swift projects
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the `thii/fontawesome.swift` repository, which provides a Swift wrapper for Font Awesome icons. Their commits focused on updating the icon dictionaries and enums, refactoring code for better use of attributed strings, and fixing image clipping issues. They also added features like border width and color options to the image extension, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's functionality and visual appearance.
swiftiosmacostvoscocoapods
oliverdowling/homebrew-tap
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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