Ky

Ky

Developer & Designer

Lead Software Engineer with over 19 years’ experience, currently specializing in Swift-based iOS/macOS/Apple applications & frameworks leading, creating, maintaining, & migrating across multiple teams, departments, & disciplines. Experienced in porting applications to new platforms. Skilled with UI/UX engineering as well, including flow design, accessibility, icons, interactive animations, user interface, layout, and more.

Em­ploy­ment

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Major League Baseball ( – )

Senior Soft­ware En­gi­neer

Led company-wide migration to Swift structured concurrency, boosting performance & maintainability, reducing concurrency crashes by 95%.
Executed precision migration of industry-scale codebase, preserving all business logic: zero-downtime transition with minimal learning curves.

Developed migration roadmap & technical documentation, enabling 100+ engineers to adopt Swift concurrency patterns

Augmented cross-platform layer to enable unified codebase serving universal apps for iOS, watchOS, iPadOS, & tvOS.
Retooled legacy components for better integration, reducing technical debt while maintaining backward compatibility

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Realtor.com ( – )

Staff Soft­ware En­gi­neer

Lead transition to SwiftUI. Guided removal of core components.

Cross-team leadership to ensure clear sync & quality product. Drove changes of product, process, & team.

Worked with UI/UX to finalize & implement full redesign. Documented & encoded the design system.

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Yes Health ( – )

Founding Soft­ware En­gi­neer

Spearheaded hiring efforts, growing team from 1 to 3 engineers. Led the engineering of multiple health & wellness products across multiple platforms

Executed platform migration from offshore Objective-C+UIKit to inhouse Swift+SwiftUI. Worked with UI/UX team to redesign & rebrand those products.

Improved product & company diversity & inclusion. Set department-wide processes & best practices: agile kanban sprints, version control, documentation system, etc.

security

PKWare ( – )

Sen­ior Soft­ware En­gi­neer

Maintained & invented personal file encryption software for macOS and iOS, as well as internal libraries to support these.

Completely redesigned the iOS app from the ground up to focus on core competencies, improve accessibility, and optimize flow.

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Soft­ware Ar­chi­tect
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security

Ion­ic Se­cu­ri­ty ( – )

Soft­ware En­gi­neer III

Engineered user-facing file encryption and access software for macOS. Collaborated on a company-wide software platform to allow such client software to be made consistent on many other platforms, including macOS, Android, Windows, and iOS.

Worked closely with UI/UX team to hone the design of multiple company products, including graphics, animations, user flows, and overall experience.

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Re­newed Vi­sion ( – )

mac­OS Soft­ware En­gi­neer

Built industry-leading professional presentation software for macOS. Collaboratively created software platforms with open-source & proprietary tech: advanced auto font scaling, inspector, & animated grid item selector.

Designed dozens of icons & other graphics, user flows, interface approaches, animations, and more.

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NCR — Small & Medi­um Busi­ness ( – )

Mo­bile Soft­ware En­gi­neer

Built industrial-scale point-of-sale firmware for Android & app for iOS, handling millions of dollars per week. Implemented headlining features such as 64-bit support, EMV payments, scale-weighing of items, & future orders, including any hardware drivers necessary for these.

Worked alongside UI/UX team to revamp the system's look-and-feel.

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Web De­vel­op­er & De­sign­er
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Edu­ca­tion

Co­lum­bus State Uni­ver­sity (Geor­gia, )

Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Com­put­er Sci­ence

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Games Programming, Databases, Computer Networks, Software Architecture, Operating Systems, and more.

Geor­gia Gwin­nett Coll­ege

Sup­ple­men­ta­ry stud­ies

Calculus, music, philosophy, sociology, and more.

Ex­per­tise

AI/ML Dev­el­op­ment ( - Present)

Extensive work with both open-source & commercial AI systems for product development.

Building workflows with proprietary & OSS models, including Claude, Stable Diffusion, GPT, Flux, Llama, Dolphin Mixtral, and others. Experience with LoRAs, evaluation frameworks, modelfiles, ComfyUI workflows.

Creating, fine-tuning, & deploying bespoke models. Experience with ANNs, as well as genetic algorithms and other non-ANN technologies.

Data Sys­tems & Knowl­edge Graphs ( - Present)

Built Simpedia (2007 - 2009), then the world's largest knowledgebase on The Sims.

Production experience with SQL, NoSQL, GraphQL+Apollo, and custom graph database & object-store implementations.

Designed & implemented wiki systems, object stores, and knowledge management platforms from scratch.

Tech Specs

Swift

Kotlin

SwiftUI

macOS

iOS

watchOS

Frameworks / SDKs

App-Level Security

Concurrency

Networking

Git

Open-Source

Architecture

Agile

Learning New Skills

De­sign

UI/UX

Iconography

Web Design

Print Design

Custom Controls

Logo Design

Sketch

Figma