Wes Wickwire is a lead software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in iOS and backend systems, currently leading engineering at Arthrex from Gainesville, Florida. He has a strong track record of shipping mobile products and guiding teams, having held lead iOS roles at Sparrow and ATP before his current position. Wes contributes to low-level tooling—his GitHub work includes a Swift runtime library for type introspection, dynamic property access, and protocol metadata, where he fixed memory leaks and implemented an object factory. He combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, comfortable moving between platform-specific iOS concerns and runtime-level Swift internals. A Computer Software Engineering graduate from Florida Gulf Coast University, he brings pragmatic problem-solving and attention to memory- and type-safety details that often hide behind higher-level app code.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University
A Swift Runtime library for viewing type info, and the dynamic getting and setting of properties.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 releases, 5 reviews, 189 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Wes contributed to a Swift runtime library designed for type information and dynamic property access. Their work involved adding and modifying test cases, particularly focusing on retrieving and setting properties for structs and classes. The user also implemented an object factory, including fixes for memory leaks related to class instantiation. Further contributions included implementing protocol metadata and functionality.
Shift is a simple, declarative animation library for building complex view controller and view transitions in UIKit.
Contributions:99 commits, 5 pushes, 4 tags in 1 year
animationview-transitionsviewcontrollerswiftios
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