Wayne Bishop
Founder And Principal Engineer at Arbutus Software
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolWayne Bishop is a versatile technologist with 11 years of experience blending iOS development, technical writing, developer education, and QA-focused test automation. He’s the author of a widely used Swift algorithms and data structures book (4th edition, 10K+ copies) and maintains companion Swift example repos where he contributes robust unit tests and quality improvements. Wayne has produced production-quality Swift and SwiftUI sample code for Google Maps/Places SDKs and created developer curricula—ranging from Swift Fundamentals to interview preparation and server-side Swift topics. His work at major partners like Apple and Google emphasizes making complex APIs accessible through hands-on tutorials, DocC, and modern tooling integrations. Comfortable shifting between hands-on coding, curriculum design, and developer relations, he brings a rare combination of classroom pedagogy and rigorous QA to developer experience. Based in Washington, he’s also deepening machine learning foundations with formal math coursework from Imperial College London, signaling a move into AI-adjacent tooling and examples.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate iOS and macOS Development, Certificate iOS and macOS Development at University of WashingtonCertificate Advanced Data Analytics Professional, Certificate Advanced Data Analytics Professional at GoogleCertificate Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization, Certificate Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization at Imperial College LondonAssociate of Arts Degree Business Management, Associate of Arts Degree Business Management at Camosun College
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Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
unit-testing10
data-structures10
algorithms10
swift10
data-structure10
binary-search10
test-automation10
objective-c6
ios6
foursquare6
geometry6
iphone6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
waynewbishop/bishop-algorithms-swift
Sep 2014 - Jun 2020
Examples of commonly used data structures and algorithms in Swift.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 releases, 308 commits, 33 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Wayne primarily contributed to the development of unit test cases for various data structures and algorithms implemented in Swift, specifically for linked lists, queues, hash tables, and binary search trees. Their work involved creating and refactoring test methods to validate functionality, demonstrating a focus on quality assurance through testing various data structures and algorithms. The user also added new test cases for sorting and demonstrating the creation of data structures and their ability to hold and manipulate data. The work involved creating and refactoring test methods to validate functionality.
data-structuredata-structuresswift
waynewbishop/quiver
Mar 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:4 releases, 105 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 3 months
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