Tom Irving
Software Engineer Team Lead at Bloomberg LP
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Irving is a seasoned software engineer and team lead with 15 years of experience building and shipping mobile applications, currently leading engineering efforts at Bloomberg in England. He brings deep iOS expertise from a long freelance career through senior roles to his current leadership position, and is comfortable moving between Objective-C and Swift to deliver polished user experiences. Tom contributes to open-source mobile tooling—maintaining components like an NSTokenField iOS port where he tackled memory leaks, refactors, and compatibility updates—showing attention to both UX details and maintainability. He blends hands-on coding with team coaching and product-facing design work, helping turn client and stakeholder needs into pragmatic technical solutions. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he favors incremental improvements that make products “more betterer” in measurable ways.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lawnswood High SchoolBrunel University London
English, objective-c, swift
Github Skills (5)
objective-c10
uikit10
user-interface10
ios10
ui-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thermogl/TITokenField
Jan 2011 - Aug 2016
An iOS version of the NSTokenField (See To: field in Mail and Messages).
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:131 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the iOS token field component, TITokenField. They addressed warnings, fixed memory leaks, refactored code, and implemented core UI changes. They also updated the component to require iOS 4.0 and removed animation for height changes. The user implemented support for iOS 4.0 and added accessory type.
mailswiftiosfield
thermogl/TISwipeableTableView
Oct 2010 - Sep 2013
Allows you to swipe a UITableViewCell and reveal a back view, functions like cells in the "Twitter" app.
Contributions:50 commits in 2 years 11 months
swipetwitter-appswiftiosuitableviewcell
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