Tom Burns
Engineering Manager, Mobile at Claptrap, LLC
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Burns is an Engineering Manager for Mobile in Chicago with 13 years of experience evolving from a lead iOS developer into a hands-on manager who still ships production code. He has led iOS teams across consumer products at Vivid Seats, Sittercity, and ActiveCampaign, driving platform decisions and building apps that generate core business traffic. A pragmatic Swift and Objective-C engineer, he contributes to notable open-source projects like Moya—improving error handling and test coverage for a widely used Swift networking library. Tom also founded Claptrap, shipping an app timed with iOS 7 that leveraged early NSURLSession and MapKit capabilities, demonstrating long-term product instinct and timing. Comfortable balancing people leadership with deep technical contributions, he brings cross-functional experience from startups to larger product teams and a background in systems engineering and Ruby on Rails tooling.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Appalachian State University
English
Github Skills (7)
reactivecocoa10
swift10
error-handling10
testing10
networking9
rxswift9
alamofire8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Moya/Moya
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 25 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on enhancing the error handling and testing aspects of the Moya library, a network abstraction layer written in Swift. They implemented a new `MoyaError` type and refactored code to use this new error type. Furthermore, the user updated existing tests to ensure the correct behavior of the `MoyaError` type, and also implemented error comparison functionality. Finally, the user merged and resolved conflicts related to their changes.
networkingrxswiftreactiveswiftswiftabstraction-layer
tomburns/CLPKittenPlaceholder
Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 2 months
ios-projectkittensmacswiftios
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