Stuart Lynch is an experienced iOS (and Android) developer with 11 years building native apps for Mixcloud, where he has been the sole native mobile engineer and now leads work on refreshed iOS, Android, CarPlay, Apple TV and Chromecast experiences. He pairs commercial product engineering with active academic research as a PhD student in Colour and Imaging Science at the University of East Anglia, bringing deep expertise in imaging, computer vision and graphics. Highly proficient in C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Java, Matlab and OpenGL, he has applied low-level skills to practical problems such as improving HTTP request stubbing for streaming data in the popular Mockingjay repo. His background includes internships at Apple focused on imaging prototypes, plus teaching and lab support in computing, demonstrating both production and pedagogical strengths. Stuart is comfortable maintaining multiple codebases and platforms simultaneously, and his research perspective often informs pragmatic, standards-aware engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Orton Longueville School
BSc, Computing Science, BSc, Computing Science at University of East Anglia
An elegant library for stubbing HTTP requests with ease in Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Stuart focused on enhancing the `Mockingjay` library, specializing in simulating HTTP request behavior. Their work involved adding support for streaming data downloads in chunks, implementing byte range functionality for more precise data retrieval, and fixing related bugs. The user also ensured correct content-length and content-range headers were sent in responses, improving the library's fidelity and compatibility with HTTP standards.
Contributions:33 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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