Richard Hodgkins
Senior IOS Developer at Red Jumper
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Hodgkins is a Senior iOS Developer with 12 years’ experience building mobile apps and backend integrations, currently working on Book Creator from Bristol, UK. Comfortable across Objective-C, C/C++, Java and web-service integration, he combines hands-on client work with a strong focus on robustness and test-driven quality. His open-source contributions show attention to reliability—improving error propagation in fluent-ffmpeg, tightening XML/HTML test coverage for Ono, and hardening encrypted Core Data stores with SQLCipher. A former Android developer who prefers iOS, he brings end-to-end product experience from scoping and IA through release and likes tackling backend challenges within mobile projects.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Exeter SchoolMEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (31)
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
testing10
pdf10
ffmpeg10
sqlcipher10
pdf-generation10
xml10
error-handling10
coredata10
nodejs10
stream-processing10
xpath10
uiviewcontroller9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
project-imas/encrypted-core-data
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
v2.0 - iOS Core Data encrypted SQLite store using SQLCipher
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:61 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the implementation of tests and error handling related to the encryption of Core Data stores using SQLCipher within an iOS environment. They added tests to check for incorrect passcodes, introduced a new error code, and updated existing tests to reflect this change. Furthermore, the user refactored the code, separating the database configuration into distinct methods for passcode and cache size, and incorporated a check to verify the correctness of the provided passcode.
coredataiossqlciphersqlite
fluent-ffmpeg/node-fluent-ffmpeg
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
A fluent API to FFMPEG (http://www.ffmpeg.org)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard made significant contributions to enhance error handling and robustness of the fluent-ffmpeg library. They implemented error propagation for input and output streams, ensuring that errors are correctly reported to the application. They also added tests to validate these error-handling mechanisms and fixed a typo in the log output. Moreover, the user corrected a code documentation comment and added missing methods.
ffmpegfluent-api
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