Virgilio Neto
Senior IOS Developer at Homely.com.au
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolVirgilio Neto is a Senior iOS Developer based in Sydney with 15 years of experience delivering high-quality mobile products and leading cross-platform teams. He has driven architecture, mentoring, and delivery for major Australian news apps at Fairfax and currently builds products at Homely, balancing hands-on engineering with people leadership. A pragmatic refactorer and performance-minded engineer, he has contributed meaningful fixes and improvements to notable open-source Swift projects like Kingfisher and ReSwift, addressing memory management, stability, and modern Swift migrations. Virgilio’s background spans full-stack and backend work, giving him a strong systems perspective that informs better app architecture and long-lived maintainability. He thrives on challenging UX-driven problems and continuously learns new technologies to push both his craft and his teams forward.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (27)
imagecaching10
caching10
ios10
geometry10
image-processing10
geospatial10
geojson10
redux10
xcode10
geo10
cartography10
file-cache10
maps10
swift10
kingfisher10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GEOSwift/GEOSwift
Nov 2015 - Jun 2018
The Swift Geometry Engine.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 28 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Virgilio primarily contributed to the Swift geometry engine, enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their work included refactoring code, fixing documentation issues, and updating the codebase to accommodate Xcode 8 and Swift 3 updates. They also addressed warnings and deprecated features, demonstrating a focus on code quality and modernizing the project. Furthermore, they implemented type aliases and corrected protocol names to improve the codebase's clarity and adherence to Swift best practices.
geospatialgeocartographyswiftgeometry
ReSwift/ReSwift
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Unidirectional Data Flow in Swift - Inspired by Redux
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Virgilio focused on refactoring and improving the core logic of the ReSwift library. They addressed memory management by introducing weak references for subscribers and removing deallocated subscribers. Furthermore, they simplified the code by allowing nil selectors in the subscribe methods. They also renamed the initial action and added tests to verify core functionalities.
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