Tom Lokhorst
Founder at Nonstrict
Netherlands
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Top SchoolTom Lokhorst is a pragmatic founder and software engineer with 17 years of experience designing elegant interfaces—from GUIs and CLIs to APIs and programming languages—built around a preference for beautiful, unobtrusive tools. Based in the Netherlands, he favors Haskell for its lightweight syntax and has deep practical experience across Swift, C#, app/web development and compiler work. As a significant contributor and architect on the popular R.swift project, he improved type safety and code generation for Swift resources, demonstrating a knack for making developer-facing tooling more reliable and maintainable. He previously spent a decade as a "software writer" at Q42 and now runs Nonstrict, applying craftsmanship to meaningful projects rather than churn. Tom’s approach combines a developer’s aesthetic with pragmatic engineering: avoid cheap tools and cheap work, and build things that make you happy.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, MSc at Utrecht UniversityBSc, BSc at HAN University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (23)
ios10
uistoryboard10
code-generation10
swift10
applescript9
architecture9
polymorphism9
oop9
java9
loops9
profiling9
compiler-construction9
functional-programming9
haskell9
architectures9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mac-cain13/R.swift
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
Strong typed, autocompleted resources like images, fonts and segues in Swift projects
Role in this project:
Software Architect & iOS Developer
Software Architect & iOS DeveloperContributions:107 releases, 1 review, 566 commits in 8 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tom significantly contributed to the architecture and implementation of the R.swift code generation tool. They introduced support for multiple generic arguments, enabling more flexible resource handling. Their work on typed storyboard segues improved type safety. They also refactored the code to generate comments for top-level structs, enhancing code maintainability and readability. Furthermore, the user addressed and resolved reported issues.
tvosswift-projectscode-generatorfontsautocompletion
nonstrict-hq/CloudStorage
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Swift property wrapper to sync settings through iCloud key-value storage
Contributions:5 releases, 10 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
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