Will Townsend
Founder at Loft Labs Interactive
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorWill Townsend is an iOS-focused founder and engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer apps and leading mobile teams. He was an early hire and later Technical Lead at Paper Kite, where he shipped 30+ Objective-C and Swift apps and helped the company scale from a team of 3 to 20. Will has led iOS projects at MetaLab, founded Loft Labs Interactive, and maintains successful personal apps (Tides NZ, Road Code NZ) that reached #1 on paid charts—projects he uses to experiment with new tech and team workflows. He cares deeply about application architecture and clean, maintainable code, with hands-on experience across MVC, MVVM, RxSwift, VIPER and the Coordinator pattern. Active in the Wellington developer community as a CocoaHeads host and presenter, he blends practical product experience with a collaborative, mentorship-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
body, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (72)
ergonomics10
composition10
testing10
unidirectional-data-flow10
uikit10
swiftui10
architecture10
modularity10
obs10
stream10
camera10
swift10
testability10
iphone10
obs-studio10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
paperkite/XLForm
May 2015 - Mar 2021
XLForm is the most flexible and powerful iOS library to create dynamic table-view forms.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
ios-libraryswiftiosdynamic-tabletable-view
wtsnz/NZHerald
May 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 2 branches in 2 years
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