Simon Free
Software Engineer - IWork at Apple
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Free is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience and a 12+ year tenure on Apple’s iWork Pages team, where he helps ship one of the App Store’s most popular productivity apps for iOS and macOS. He combines deep client-side engineering and UI craftsmanship—shaped by earlier work as lead architect of FieldAware’s pixel-perfect iOS app—with a pragmatic systems background from internships involving Python, C++ and Erlang. Based in Vancouver, he focuses on delivering polished user experiences at scale, balancing product constraints with engineering rigor. Colleagues would describe him as a quietly steady contributor who prefers solving hard implementation details that make widely used apps feel effortless.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A. (Mod) [on hold], Computer Science, B.A. (Mod) [on hold], Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin
English, German, German
Stackoverflow
191reputation
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Github Skills (18)
sqlite-database10
sqlite9
database9
sql-builder9
sql8
grdb7
databases7
uikit6
android6
iphone6
objective-c6
ios6
javascript6
cockroachdb6
stable-diffusion1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sipefree/d00ks
Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Contributions:14 commits in 1 month
sipefree/stable-diffusion-image-server
Aug 2023 - Aug 2023
Python's http.server extended for images generated by @AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui
Contributions:1 release, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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