Samuel Défago
Apple Player Developer at RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSamuel Défago is an experienced Apple-platform developer with 16 years of practice building polished iOS, tvOS, watchOS and iPadOS apps and SDKs, currently shaping the Pillarbox player ecosystem at RTS / SRG SSR. He blends Swift, Objective-C, UIKit and SwiftUI expertise—having evolved through ARC, reactive Combine patterns and modern Swift paradigms—to deliver robust, reusable and well-documented SDKs for media playback at scale. Samuel focuses on pragmatic, efficient designs that balance object-oriented, functional and reactive approaches, and he regularly contributes production-ready libraries and full app sources publicly on GitHub. His work on media players emphasizes accessibility, DRM integration (FairPlay), AirPlay and resilient playback across live and on-demand content for public-service reach. A physics-trained problem solver (ETH Zurich), he also publishes deep technical investigations on his blog and has a track record of improving developer ergonomics in open-source projects like InAppSettingsKit.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (Master), Theoretical Physics, Diplom (Master), Theoretical Physics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMaturité de type C, Mathematics and physics, Maturité de type C, Mathematics and physics at Collège de l'Abbaye, St-Maurice
French, English, German
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Github Skills (14)
uikit10
ios10
swift9
ipad8
iphone8
ui-design7
objective-c6
storyboard6
apple-m16
ibdesignable6
uitableview6
functional-programming6
google-cast6
ios-framework6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
futuretap/InAppSettingsKit
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
This iOS framework allows settings to be in-app in addition to or instead of being in the Settings app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Samuel primarily contributed to the iOS framework by implementing and modifying UI components and settings within the application. Their work involved fixing compilation issues, adding and modifying custom header and footer views, including title customizations, and optimizing view behavior. They also added examples within the sample app to demonstrate the customizations, as well as working to avoid unnecessary animations.
cocoapodsios-frameworkswift-3ioscarthage
SRGSSR/srglogger-apple
Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:13 releases, 3 reviews, 164 commits in 5 years 10 months
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