Tristan O'tierney
Founder at Reimage
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolTristan O'tierney is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 20 years of experience, based in Los Angeles, who blends meticulous engineering with a fine-arts sensibility from an MFA in Photography. A former Square co-founder turned traveling photographer, he brings product-minded creativity to mobile and UI problems, with hands-on contributions to notable open-source iOS projects like TTTAttributedLabel where he fixed text-rendering crashes and improved attribute handling. He holds a BS in Computer Science with a perfect 4.0 from San Jose State and earlier studies at RIT, reflecting strong academic rigor underpinning his craft. Tristan excels at refining edge-case behavior and performance in client code, a detail-oriented trait that shows in both his software and photographic work. He’s equally comfortable shipping bug fixes that improve maintainability and chasing moments off the beaten path, often finding technical insights in unexpected places.
20 years of coding experience
San José State UniversityBS, Computer Science, 3.5, BS, Computer Science, 3.5 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Photography, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Photography at San Francisco Art Institute
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Github Skills (7)
textkit10
objective-c10
uid10
debug10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TTTAttributedLabel/TTTAttributedLabel
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
A drop-in replacement for UILabel that supports attributes, data detectors, links, and more
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tristan made several bug fixes and implemented improvements to the TTTAttributedLabel library. Their contributions addressed crashes related to text rendering, specifically when dealing with the last line range. They also updated the code to respect the `Color From Context` attribute and refactored code for performance improvements and maintainability. The user's work involved refining the label's text rendering logic and adjusting internal attribute handling to enhance its overall functionality.
drop-inuilabeldata-attributesdetectorsswift
square/gh-unit
Oct 2009 - Jul 2011
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 9 months
testingobjective-ctest-frameworkios
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