Stephen Radford
Lead Software Engineer - Mobile at MKM Building Supplies
Oakham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolStephen Radford is a lead mobile engineer with 14 years of experience, currently heading development of the MKM Building Supplies mobile app from Oakham, UK. He brings a rare blend of hands-on iOS expertise and product-focused leadership, having founded and run Cocoon Development where client projects and a nominated side product (FTPloy) showcased his entrepreneurial streak. His open-source contributions include enhancing MessengerKit for flexible iOS messaging UIs and improving UX features in a YouTube Music Mac wrapper, reflecting a strong focus on polished frontend interactions. Comfortable across React Native, Swift, PHP and JavaScript, he excels at turning design-led ideas into maintainable mobile experiences. Colleagues rely on him to balance shipping features quickly with thoughtful architecture and practical developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
ND, Graphic Design, ND, Graphic Design at City of Bristol College
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Github Skills (19)
wkwebview10
ios10
messenger10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
chat10
media-player10
front-end-development10
swift10
macos10
javascript9
cocoapods9
objective-c8
bitbucket6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
steve228uk/MessengerKit
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
:speech_balloon: A UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the `messengerkit` iOS framework, focusing on UI and functionality improvements. Their work included implementing CocoaPods integration, adding custom styling capabilities with a new example, and modifying the UI with new features, such as tap gesture recognizers for avatars and custom cell types, including video. The commits demonstrate a focus on enhancing the framework's flexibility, usability and features for building messenger interfaces on iOS.
balloonui-frameworkchatspeech-balloonswift
steve228uk/YouTube-Music
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
:musical_note: A Mac app wrapper for music.youtube.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 39 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the YouTube Music Mac application. They implemented media key support for play/pause, next, and previous track actions. Furthermore, the user added navigation arrows for back and forward, and added UI enhancements such as adding a moveable area and modifying window controls. They also integrated user notifications for track changes and added menu controls.
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