Robert Gilliam
IOS Software Engineer at Square
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Gilliam is an iOS software engineer with 13 years of experience building mobile applications and frameworks from San Francisco. Currently at Square, he brings deep Objective-C and Swift expertise honed through independent contracting and long-term platform work. He has contributed to notable open-source tooling such as the typhoon dependency-injection framework, improving block autocompletion, iOS build stability, and XML handling—an indicator of his attention to developer ergonomics and legacy-system interoperability. Robert pairs practical engineering with a systems view, comfortable touching low-level build issues as well as higher-level app features. A UC Davis computer science graduate, he combines entrepreneurial independence with the discipline of a large-product environment. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic bug fixes that prevent regressions and for thoughtful enhancements that smooth developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Davis
Github Skills (5)
objective-c10
web-framework10
dependency-injection10
ios9
xml7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
appsquickly/typhoon
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
Powerful dependency injection for Objective-C ✨✨ (https://PILGRIM.PH is the pure Swift successor to Typhoon!!)✨✨
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:261 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the `typhoon` repository, which is a dependency injection framework for Objective-C. They focused on code improvements, enhancing the framework's functionality, especially regarding autocomplete features for blocks within the `TyphoonDefinition` factory methods, and fixing build errors in relation to iOS builds. The user also addressed XML-related issues within the project. These commits demonstrate the user's ability to refine and maintain an Objective-C library, focusing on core functionality and addressing bugs.
typhoonobjective-caspectsiocinjection
square/ocmock
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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