Pierre Houston
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPierre Houston is a seasoned Apple-platform software engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering native iOS and macOS apps, from polished UI/UX to robust networking, Core Data and low-level system integrations. Comfortable as a solo developer or technical lead, he excels at re-architecting and refactoring legacy code, writing clear documentation and adding test coverage and CI to accelerate delivery. His background spans consumer apps, payment systems and system-level C++ work—he’s added macOS support to large cross-platform codebases and shipped Mac App Store software with an automated GitHub CI build/sign/deploy pipeline. Hands-on with Swift, Objective-C and kernel-level Apple frameworks, he reliably bridges design, backend APIs and platform specifics (push, in-app purchases, NFC, MapKit) to produce production-ready releases. Based in Vancouver, he’s currently freelancing and immediately available for contract or permanent roles, bringing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English
Stackoverflow
1,631reputation
251kreached
64answers
16questions
Github Skills (156)
dynamic-forms10
dynamic-table10
xlform10
ios-library10
obj10
text-editor10
rust-lang9
swift9
testflight9
ipad9
networking9
forms9
iphone9
tvos9
watchos9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jpmhouston/Cleepp
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Even lighter-weight clipboard tool for macOS
Contributions:8 releases, 251 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 2 months
jpmhouston/TotalObserver
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 releases, 5 commits, 34 pushes in 1 month
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