Steven Deutsch
IOS Engineer & Consultant at Freelance, self-employed
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Deutsch is an iOS engineer and consultant with a decade of experience building highly testable, modular mobile apps and improving developer productivity. He has led mobile architecture and tooling efforts at Fundrise—introducing MVVM, modularization, snapshot testing (600+ images), hot-reloading, and automated code generation—while also shipping performant real-time features at startups like Rodio. An active open-source contributor, Steven has improved popular Swift projects (SwifterSwift, Moya, MessageKit, IBAnimatable, GitHawk), adding UI improvements, networking authorization, animations, and extensive tests to boost reliability. Based in Florida, he freelances on iOS contracting, code review, and architectural advising, and is especially focused on developer experience and reducing boilerplate across teams.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Oakton CollegeCollege of DuPage
Github Skills (36)
unit-testing10
json-parser10
json10
authorizations10
rxswift10
danger10
ios10
animation10
jsonp10
user-interface10
ui-design10
networking10
uid10
magento-extension10
xcode10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Moya/Moya
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
Network abstraction layer written in Swift.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 154 commits, 86 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Steven primarily contributed to the development of features related to authorization and the processing of network requests. Their work included implementing an `AuthorizationType` enum for an `AccessTokenPlugin` and refactoring the `AccessTokenPlugin` to use a token closure. These changes focused on enhancing the security and flexibility of the network layer. They also added and updated tests related to the `AccessTokenPlugin`.
networkingrxswiftreactiveswiftswiftabstraction-layer
MessageKit/MessageKit
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController
Role in this project:iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 629 commits, 387 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Steven contributed to the development of the iOS application, MessageKit. Their commits added core functionality, including new user interface elements. The user was primarily involved in defining protocols and implementing UI elements, building a foundation for the iOS application using Swift.
chatswiftiosmessagingmessenger
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