Rutger Farry
Software Engineer at Apple
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRutger Farry is a seasoned iOS software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-facing apps and resilient backend integrations for enterprise and research contexts. He progressed from student research—where his embedded C work extended smart clothing battery life and produced a conference paper—to leading iOS development at Nordstrom and now contributing to platform engineering at Apple. Rutger combines deep mobile expertise (Swift, Objective-C, Core Bluetooth) with experience across Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud tooling, enabling pragmatic cross-stack solutions. He has a strong track record of performance optimizations and architectural design—shipping the first iOS app for a research center and reducing web app load times by ~40%—and brings a research-informed curiosity to production-grade software. Based in Seattle with a CS degree from Oregon State, he’s comfortable moving between low-level embedded work and large-scale consumer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.44, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.44 at Oregon State University
English, German
Stackoverflow
42reputation
2kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (43)
finder7
swift6
datasource6
uitableview6
delegates6
api6
scraper6
struct6
malloc6
objective-c6
ios6
catalog6
sizeof6
nodejs5
api-server5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
classmere/ios
Sep 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 176 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 6 months
swiftiosios-app
classmere/classmere.github.io
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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