Peter Easdown
IOS MacOS TvOS App Developer at Mintec Systems
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPeter Easdown is a senior iOS, macOS and tvOS app developer based in Melbourne with 15 years of professional experience building native apps and complex systems. As sole developer at pkclSoft he has shipped over 20 Objective-C and Swift apps, often incorporating accessibility features for special-needs users and leveraging technologies from CloudKit to SpriteKit and StoreKit. His earlier career spans systems engineering roles—designing ATM, radar and aircraft simulations and modernizing legacy Modula-2 systems into Java—bringing strong full-stack and systems-level thinking to app development. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the well-known cocos2d-objc framework with bug fixes, new blend modes and iOS9 gesture fixes, reflecting a pragmatic attention to cross-platform robustness. Colleagues praise his rapid mastery of new technologies, independence and ability to turn systems into polished, customer-focused products. He combines a simulator/embedded systems background with indie app sensibilities, making him adept at both low-level correctness and delightful user experiences.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Wauchope HighAss Dip, Business Computing, Ass Dip, Business Computing at College of Advanced Education
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Github Skills (15)
objective-c10
debug10
ios10
coco10
mobile-development10
cocos2d-x10
image9
front-end-development9
xcode6
uitableview6
cocoa-touch6
mapkit6
animation6
iphone6
coregraphics6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-objc
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Cocos2d for iOS and OS X, built using Objective-C
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily contributed to the Cocos2d-objc framework by addressing various issues and enhancing its functionality. Their work included fixing compiler warnings, improving existing features like `CCActionEaseOut` easing, and adding new features such as additional Photoshop blend modes. The user also made code adjustments to handle content size changes to propagate down to children nodes. Furthermore, the user fixed an iOS9 issue with the `CCScrollView` where gesture recognizers were not being removed.
objective-ccocoapodscocos2dswiftios
pkclsoft/cocos2d-objc
Jun 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 years 4 months
objective-ccocoapodscocos2dswiftios
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