Sam Symons
Senior Mobile Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Symons is a Senior Mobile Engineer with 12 years of experience building polished iOS apps and SDKs, currently helping DuckDuckGo ship privacy-first features. He has led iOS teams and rewrites (Help Scout), owned release and QA automation, and contributed to high-scale apps at PayPal and Venmo integrations. Sam brings a strong engineering grounding in Swift, UI/UX polish, and migration projects, plus hands-on experience with build automation, CI, and cross-platform coordination. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Material Components for iOS and added robust tests to networking tools like bettercap, reflecting interests that span computer graphics, compilers, and Rust. Based in Sicamous, BC, he combines pragmatic product focus with deep technical curiosity—often tackling low-level improvements that quietly improve user experience.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Canterbury
English
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Github Skills (23)
objective-c10
ios10
testing10
swiftui-app10
ui-design10
ruby10
uid10
front-end-development10
minitest10
swift10
swiftui10
widgets9
wkwebview9
net9
material-design9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
duckduckgo/iOS
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
DuckDuckGo iOS Application
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:15 releases, 800 reviews, 159 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the development of the DuckDuckGo iOS application. Their work involved implementing UI enhancements and addressing related issues, particularly concerning the correct display of UI elements in dark mode. Furthermore, the user focused on adding and refining the SwiftUI previews for widgets, including both dark and light mode previews and previews of favorites entries. They also modified the app's behavior to fix fullscreen video issues within the application's web view.
objective-cprivacyduckduckgoprivate-searchios
evilsocket/bettercap
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
DEPRECATED, bettercap developement moved here: https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Sam primarily focused on adding and maintaining tests within the repository. They created tests for various components, including the `Target`, `Logger`, `Proxy::Response`, `ParserFactory`, `FirewallFactory`, `Network`, and `Shell` classes. These tests appear to be unit tests, designed to verify the functionality and behavior of individual code units within the `bettercap` project. Furthermore, the user updated the test files to ensure they were in sync with the main branch and provided additional test cases.
developementbettercap
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