Tom Baranes
Lead Développeur IOS MacOS at KaraFun Group
Lille, Hauts-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Baranes is a lead iOS/macOS developer with 12 years specializing in Apple platforms, currently leading mobile engineering at KaraFun Group from Lille. He combines product-minded craftsmanship (UI/UX, accessibility) with strong technical discipline in clean code, architectures like VIPER, testing and CI/CD. His freelance and enterprise work spans e-commerce, banking, music and IoT, where he rebuilt foundations, created internal frameworks and ship-ready apps for both iPhone and iPad. An active open-source contributor, he has extended popular tools such as SwiftGen, IBAnimatable and netfox to improve cross-platform compatibility and UI animation reuse. He also teaches—delivering Apple Foundation Program training—so he pairs hands-on delivery with mentorship and skills transfer. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he keeps projects future-proof by updating tooling and Swift versions to maintain long-term device compatibility.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
EpitechInformatique, Informatique at Chung Ang University
French, English
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Github Skills (29)
debugging10
debug10
code-generator10
ios10
animation10
ipad10
testing10
html-template10
python-templates10
remote-debugging10
cocoa10
xcode10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
swift10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IBAnimatable/IBAnimatable
Jan 2016 - Feb 2020
Design and prototype customized UI, interaction, navigation, transition and animation for App Store ready Apps in Interface Builder with IBAnimatable.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 616 commits, 277 PRs in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to UI and animation features, including implementing several custom transition animations such as for cards, portals, and fades. Their work involved creating reusable UI components, such as a customisable button and an animated scroll view, to improve the user experience. The user also made improvements by applying SwiftLint and addressing code style issues.
app-storeprototypingtransitionprototypeios
kasketis/netfox
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / OSX network debugging library! 🦊
Role in this project:iOS/OSX Mobile Developer
iOS/OSX Mobile DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 22 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on adapting the `netfox` library for OSX compatibility, including refactoring existing code to support both iOS and OSX environments. They updated the project's constants and helper functions to work across both platforms, addressing platform-specific differences. The commits demonstrate a commitment to expanding the library's functionality to the macOS ecosystem, making it a cross-platform network debugging tool.
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