Sam Ward
Principal IOS Engineer at HSBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Ward is a Principal iOS Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building and leading mobile and platform teams, currently shaping HSBC’s iOS platform. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Swift and Objective-C with platform engineering and CI-driven delivery, having progressed from individual contributor roles to global tech lead and principal positions. Sam has a track record of modernising legacy codebases, designing greenfield apps with VIPER and TDD, and running cross-functional teams to ship robust mobile products at scale. He founded and directed Swiftbuildr Ltd, demonstrating entrepreneurial initiative alongside enterprise experience, and has shipped both consumer apps and high‑profile banking platforms. Pragmatic and process-oriented, he’s known for integrating testing, dependency injection, and trunk-based workflows to accelerate safe delivery across distributed teams.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE Maths English Sciences, GCSE Maths English Sciences at Siddal Moor Sports CollegeBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at The Manchester Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (2)
coretext6
swift2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
samst0r/samst0r.github.io
Jan 2014 - Apr 2016
swiftbuildr
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
swift
swiftbuildr/redditdigest
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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