Sam Stone
Software Engineer at Apple
Dartford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Stone is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years' experience building user-focused applications at major firms including Apple, Starling Bank, and Goldman Sachs. With a first-class Master's in Computer Science from Nottingham, he blends strong technical foundations with practical product sensibilities across front-end and platform work. At Apple since 2019 he contributes to high-quality consumer software, and previously helped scale banking systems at Starling and financial technology at Goldman Sachs. An active tinkerer, he improved UX and cross-platform behavior on an open-source native macOS WhatsApp Web wrapper, addressing edge cases like user agents, media flows and context menus. Sam is based in Dartford, UK, and brings a pragmatic eye for polishing interfaces and error handling that often distinguishes products in production.
14 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dartford Grammar ScroolMaster's Degree, Computer Science, 1st, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 1st at Nottingham University
Spanish
Github Skills (7)
uid10
wkwebview10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
webkit10
jquery9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stonesam92/ChitChat
May 2015 - Oct 2015
A native Mac app wrapper for WhatsApp Web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 59 commits, 19 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the WhatsApp Web wrapper application. Their contributions included preventing right-click context menus, making the JavaScript style more consistent, adding an error page, and implementing alerts to inform the user about media upload and download procedures. They also addressed user agent issues and improved the visual appearance and behavior of the application's UI elements, ensuring a better user experience.
whatsappwhatsapp-webmac-appmacmacos
stonesam92/SMSmileys
Feb 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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