Taylor Williamson
Lead IOS Engineer at Pion
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTaylor Williamson is a Lead iOS Engineer with 13 years' experience building and shipping consumer electronics apps, now leading an 8-person iOS team at Pion while still contributing as an individual engineer. He combines deep Swift and Objective-C expertise with a practical testing mindset—evident from contributions adding unit and snapshot tests to the popular NUI stylesheet and quality improvements to XVim—and has improved Fastlane actions to streamline iOS release workflows. Taylor’s background in Music Technology surfaces in a thoughtful UI/UX approach and attention to detail, informed by earlier work creating real-time device control and UPnP frameworks for audio hardware. Comfortable across the full mobile lifecycle, he pairs feature-driven, sprint-based delivery with technical mentorship and open-source collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Music Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Music Technology at University of Staffordshire
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Github Skills (35)
uitest10
objective-c10
debug10
xcode-plugin10
ios10
wordpress-themes10
testing10
color-scheme10
ruby10
vim10
automation10
ui-theme10
automations10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tombenner/nui
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Style iOS apps with a stylesheet, similar to CSS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily focused on testing and implementing features within the NUI (Stylesheet for iOS apps) project. Their contributions include adding unit and snapshot tests for UI elements such as `UIButton`, `UINavigationBar`, `UILabel`, `UISlider`, `UISegmentedControl`, `UISwitch`, and `UISearchBar`. They also integrated a color extraction pod and fixed issues related to setting background colors and tint colors, and added features such as gradient support.
objective-cstylesheetsimilarcssstylesheets
XVimProject/XVim
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Xcode plugin for Vim keybindings
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 49 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the XVim plugin. Their commits added test cases to cover various functionalities including inverting set options, matching project coding styles, and the correct behaviour of visual mode commands. They introduced new tests for features like gE and fixed an issue related to glyph index calculations, demonstrating a commitment to thorough testing and ensuring the plugin's reliability.
vimvim-keybindingskeybindingsmacosxcode
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