Paul Samuels
Technical Lead at Autotrader
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Samuels is a seasoned iOS engineer and technical lead with 14+ years delivering large-scale mobile apps used by hundreds of thousands of customers, currently leading iOS efforts at AutoTrader and working with Fanatics. He specialises in modern Swift and Objective-C codebases, system modernisation, modularisation (Tuist), CI migration and backend-for-frontend design that reduces client complexity and drives consistency via a shared design system. Comfortable in both high-pressure agency settings and steady agile teams, he combines hands-on development with coaching, code reviews, gameplans and tooling to lift team craft and predictability. Paul is pragmatic about long-term outcomes—he’s led complete rewrites, architecture transformations and the build-out of developer tools and automation to prevent recurring issues. Based in Leeds, he pairs a reflective, debugging-first mindset with a passion for well-tested, documented, easy-to-change code and a track record of improving project health at scale.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Web Application Development (Distinction), MSc Web Application Development (Distinction) at Leeds Beckett University
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Github Skills (64)
objective-c10
ios10
maccatalyst10
software-quality10
xcode10
scale10
swift10
coredata10
macos10
delay10
scalability10
iphone10
swiftui10
ipad9
animation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
paulsamuels/SBConstants
Jan 2013 - May 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 4 months
paulsamuels/ximber
Nov 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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