A decade of Apple-platform development

I’m Ian, a software developer and owner of Solid Red Systems based in Amsterdam. The apps I've built - which include the socially-critical app CoronaCheck - are used by millions of people.

Putting your CoreData stack into a Swift Package

February 2, 2023

Tweaking Xcode's Core Data boilerplate by creating a Persistence package.

Using URLCache As An Alternative To Retaining Network Model Objects

May 28, 2018

Oftentimes we request JSON data from the server, deserialise it into network model objects and then wonder where we can keep ahold of this data..

Script for reliably and quickly downloading Xcode on a poor connection

February 21, 2017

Using aria2c to reliably download Xcode on a poor connection

MVVM + Coordinator = 🍰

November 25, 2016

I've been using the god-mix of the MVVM pattern mixed with the Coordinator pattern to build Tacks - and I'm a huge fan of the approach.

Portfolio

Company
CoronaCheck
Role
Senior iOS Developer
Date
2021 Present
Company
CoronaCheck Scanner
Role
Senior iOS Developer
Date
2021 Present
Company
ING and Mastercard
Role
Senior iOS Developer
Date
2020 2021
Company
FedEx
Role
Senior iOS Developer
Date
2019 2020

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