Rick Ballard
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRick Ballard is a seasoned software engineer at Apple with over a decade of experience building and shaping Xcode and the Swift developer ecosystem. He has driven major projects including the Swift Package Manager, a backward-compatible rewrite of Xcode’s build system, native Swift package support, and tooling for iOS on Apple Silicon—work that blends deep technical authorship and engineering management. Known for mentoring and building collaborative, self-motivated teams, he pairs hands-on architecture and coding with people leadership. Based in San Francisco, he’s also a frequent WWDC speaker and longtime interviewer who quietly influences developer tooling used by millions.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
4,775reputation
370kreached
19answers
0questions
xcode
top-5%
callback
top-1%
swift
top-5%
asynchronous
top-1%
ios
top-5%
closures
top-1%
Github Skills (16)
asynchronous10
callback10
swift10
programming-language10
closures10
ios9
xcode9
visible7
macros6
clang6
macos6
build-system6
swift-package-manager6
compile-time6
swift-playgrounds6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rballard/swift-evolution
May 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 26 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year
visibleproposalsswift-programming-languageswift-programmingswift
rballard/swift-package-manager
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
swift-programming-languagepackage-managerswift-programmingswiftmacos
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