Sam Jones
Principal Software Development Engineer at Capital One
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Jones is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Capital One from a strong iOS and mobile background. He progressed through engineering roles at Capital One after a formative period as a senior iOS developer at nuom, blending hands-on implementation with people and project leadership. A self-described perfectionist, Sam is known for meticulous planning, timely delivery and pragmatic problem-solving across complex codebases. He contributes to open-source iOS UI tooling—updating and maintaining MessengerKit for Swift compatibility—showing attention to maintainability and platform evolution. Based in the UK with a Computer Science degree from De Montfort University, he pairs academic rigour with practical experience shipping production mobile interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Banbury SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at De Montfort UniversityBTEC National Diploma in IT Information Technology, BTEC National Diploma in IT Information Technology at Oxford & Cherwell Valley College
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Github Skills (13)
uid10
chat10
swift10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
messenger10
minecraft6
maven6
bash6
rvm6
ruby6
java6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
steve228uk/MessengerKit
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
:speech_balloon: A UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 17 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam focused on improving the `messengerkit` project, which is a UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS. They updated the example code to Swift 4.2, incorporated changes from the master branch, and fixed issues related to input view subclassing, demonstrating a focus on code maintenance and compatibility. The user also made minor UI-related adjustments.
balloonui-frameworkchatspeech-balloonswift
sjoness/Koloda
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 2 years 11 months
tinder-likeswiftiostindersimplify
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