Stephen Williams
Senior Android Engineer at Department of Conservation (DOC)
Bronte, Tasman, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Williams is a pragmatic senior mobile engineer with over a decade of experience building resilient iOS, macOS and Android apps, currently focused on Android at New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. He blends a rare mix of computer science rigor and formal design training, which lets him bridge UX goals and deep technical concerns like concurrency, memory management and clean architecture. Stephen has modernized long-lived apps—refactoring Objective-C to Swift, adding comprehensive test suites, and shipping cross-platform Rust business logic—while also improving backend reliability through targeted bug-fixing initiatives. A former founder, he pairs hands-on engineering with an appreciation for product and business outcomes, and is comfortable working remotely across distributed teams since 2012. He’s shipped production features ranging from offline map frameworks and FFT-based signal processing to WebRTC and video streaming, showing both breadth and an appetite for technically challenging domains.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BSC, Computer Science, BSC, Computer Science at The University of AucklandDipl Des, Design, Dipl Des, Design at Köln International School of Design
German, English
Github Skills (38)
objective-c10
ios10
xcode10
hybrid-mobile-app10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
converting9
native-code8
fairplay8
avfoundation6
swiftui5
avplayer5
playback5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
swilliams-intellum/dotFiles
Nov 2022 - Jan 2024
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
swilliams-intellum/swilliams-intellum.github.io
May 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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