Richard Heard
IOS Engineer at Apple Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Heard is an accomplished iOS engineer with 14 years of experience building consumer-facing and internal tools, currently contributing to Apple’s iOS teams from San Francisco. He brings deep expertise in Objective-C, Cocoa/Cocoa Touch, CoreFoundation and low-level debugging (LLDB/GDB), with a track record of shipping first‑party apps, framework testing, and multi-device automation. His background spans startups and major platforms—shaping mobile products at Airbnb and leading iOS work at Batch before returning to Apple to influence APIs and demos for WWDC. Richard couples hands-on engineering with mentorship and client-facing roles, having guided iPad/phone feature development and onboarded junior engineers. An RMIT Computer Science graduate who splits time between Melbourne and SF, he also has practical reverse-engineering skills and experience building QA tooling and automation that improved release quality.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science (Application Programming), BCS, Computer Science (Application Programming) at RMIT University
Github Skills (25)
ios9
objective-c9
cocoapods9
controller7
objective-c-library7
right-click7
xcode6
static-library6
macos5
java5
overlay5
markdown5
cocoa4
android4
flutter4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
heardrwt/RHHorizontalSwipe
Jan 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:34 commits in 1 year 2 months
navigationcocoapodspositionscontrollerstatic-library
heardrwt/RHAdditions
Mar 2013 - Jul 2018
Various Objective-C categories and additions that have served me well over the years.
Contributions:69 commits, 4 pushes in 5 years 5 months
objective-c
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