Simon Mitchell
Lead Developer at Lumenate
Aberaeron, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Mitchell is a Lead Developer with 11 years of mobile engineering experience, currently driving iOS, Android and Firebase backend work remotely from Aberaeron for Lumenate. He has nine years focused on iOS and three years building production React Native apps, contributing notable fixes and lifecycle support to the popular wix/react-native-navigation library. Creator of Camrote, a hobby project that controls Sony cameras, he blends product-minded engineering with hands-on app development for clients such as the American Red Cross, RFU and RSPB. Trained as a physicist at Imperial College London, Simon combines rigorous problem-solving with a photographer’s eye for detail and UX-sensitive features.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (15)
mobile10
objective-c10
navigationbar10
ios10
react-native10
navigation-drawer10
navigationview10
ui-design9
animation9
uikit9
xcode6
uinavigationcontroller6
uitableview6
swift6
uibarbuttonitem6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
wix/react-native-navigation
Feb 2017 - May 2020
A complete native navigation solution for React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 10 PRs, 53 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the iOS side of the React Native Navigation library. Their work involved fixing bugs related to styling, particularly navigation bar and tab bar customization, and ensuring compatibility with newer React Native versions. They also implemented view lifecycle events for iOS, adding `viewWillAppear`, `viewDidAppear`, `viewWillDisappear`, and `viewDidDisappear` callbacks. The commits also show significant work related to handling the root view's bounds on iPhone X and managing modal transitions and animations.
react-nativenavigationnavigatorreact-native-navigation
3sidedcube/ThunderBasics
Oct 2014 - Sep 2021
A collection of helpful extensions, subclasses and wrappers to make iOS app development easier
Contributions:19 releases, 8 reviews, 410 commits in 7 years
iosswiftuicolordate-formatting
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