About
This blog is focused on developing high quality programming tutorials. Our goal is to take the coolest and most challenging topics and make them easy for everyone to learn – so we can all make amazing apps.
We are also focused on developing a strong community. Our goal is to help each other reach our dreams through friendship and cooperation. As you can see below, a bunch of us have joined forces to make this happen: authors, editors, subject matter experts, app reviewers, and most importantly our amazing readers!
If you’d like to be a part of our community, you can join us in our forums or apply to join the team.
Want to follow us on Twitter? Follow the raywenderlich.com Team twitter list to follow everyone on the team in one click! :] This is a great source for iOS news and links.
We hope you enjoy our tutorials, and we look forward to getting to know you! :]
Video Team
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Ehab Yosry Amer
A very enthusiastic Lead iOS developer with a very diverse experience, from building games to enterprise applications and POCs, specially when exploring new technologies.
In the spare time (or time that can be spared) Ehab enjoys watching a few (more like a lot of TV series) if nothing to watch, video games are just as awesome to say the least :]
When trying to move away from a screen Ehab enjoys going through challenging escape-room experience with his awesome friends, & attempt to break the escape records. -
Jerry Beers
Jerry is a co-founder of Five Pack Creative, a mobile development company specializing in iOS development. He’s worked on client projects, like American Airlines and Match.com, but lately he’s been pouring his focus into Hours, a time tracking app. He is passionate about creating well-crafted code and teaching others. In partnership with Ray, he recently launched Alt-U, an in-person iOS boot camp.
Jerry enjoys spending time on the beach with his wife and kids, SCUBA diving, and watching movies.
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Caroline Begbie
I’m an indie iOS developer. When I’m not developing, I’m playing around with 2D and 3D animation software, or learning Arduino and electronics.
In my past I’ve taught the elderly how to use their computers, done marionette shows for pre-schools, and created accounting and stock control systems for mining companies. -
Lorenzo Boaro
Lorenzo is a Software Engineer who is passionate about mobile development. He has been engineering iOS apps since 2010 but he is comfortable with other languages such as C#, JavaScript and Java.
He is not only fond of iOS development but he also has different research interests. In fact, during his Ph.D., he focused his effort on Web Services, Specification and Verification of Software Systems, Business Process Management, Case Management, Intelligent User Interfaces and Healthcare Systems.
In his spare time he is studying to become an actor. -
Barrett Breshears
Barrett is a senior software developer that has focused on mobile development for the last 6 years. In the last couple years he has worked with client big and small across 5 continents like the Emirates Groups, Accor North America to start ups like Zugata.
Barrett is passionate about learn new technologies as well as mentoring and helping others getting started in their programming career. When not coding he likes to spend his time in the mountains of Utah hunting and fishing with his wife and three daughters. -
Michael Briscoe
Michael is an Independent Software Developer with over 30 years of programming experience. Learning BASIC on a Commodore 64 way back in 1984, he's been hooked on coding ever since. He enjoys creating simulations and games for all Apple platforms.
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Jessy Catterwaul
Fascinated by technology consistently making learning easier, Jessy enjoys exploring new techniques involving creative software and hardware combinations, and imparting the experience to others. Along with his wife Catie, you'll find him doing so around here in the form of video tutorials.
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Catie Catterwaul
Catie makes things for, with, and about Apple tech in collaboration with her husband, Jessy! She is inspired by everyone at raywenderlich.com to be a positive force in the world.
When away from her desk, Catie lifts heavy things, runs around outside throwing Westside Discs, pines for excellent gaming experiences, and tells her cat, Princess Ozma, how fluffy she is. -
Tammy Coron
Writer • Illustrator • Developer • Speaker
Tammy Coron is an independent creative professional and the host of Roundabout: Creative Chaos. She's also the co-founder of Day Of The Indie, the organizer behind Indie DevStock, and the founder of Just Write Code.
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Richard Critz
Richard is on career number three as a professional photographer (after first being a software engineer doing mainframe O/S development for 20+ years and then a stint as a corporate pilot) doing contract iOS development on the side. Some would say he just can't make up his mind. Actually, he just likes diversity!
When he's not working on either of those, he's probably playing League of Legends (with or without the rest of his family).
On Twitter, while being mainly read-only, he can be found @rcritz. The rest of his professional life can be found at www.rwcfoto.com -
Sam Davies
Sam is a strange mashup of developer, writer and trainer. By day you'll find him recording videos for Razeware, writing tutorials, attending conferences and generally being a good guy. By night he's likely to be out entertaining people, armed with his trombone and killer dance moves.
He'd like it very much if you were to follow him on twitter at @iwantmyrealname, seek him out as sammyd on GitHub, or check his personal site iwantmyreal.name. -
Tim Mitra
Tim is a mobile app developer, podcaster and artist. He also teaches iOS dev, Swift and Objective-C. Tim is a lead iOS developer at TD Bank. He also runs iT Guy Technologies, a software development company in Toronto, Canada. He studied Fine Arts before there were Macs and he's worked for many years in software development, IT, graphic design, publishing and printing. He is also the founder, producer and host of the More Than Just Code Podcast on mobile app development & business. Tim is also co-host of Roundabout Creative Chaos podcast.
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Brian Moakley
Brian is an instructor at Razeware who develops courses and screencasts on a wide variety of topics of iOS development. When not teaching, Brian plays board games, studies aikido, and tries to keep up with his wife and two kiddos.
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Luke Parham
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Mic Pringle
Mic Pringle is a developer first and foremost, but regularly turns his hand to book and tutorial editing, video tutorial making, and hosting the official raywenderlich.com podcast. Mic is 1/6th of Razeware, the team behind raywenderlich.com. An iOS developer by trade, Mic has recently found himself dabbling in Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript.
When not knee-deep in code, Mic enjoys spending time with his wife Lucy and their daughter Evie, watching his beloved Fulham F.C., and weather permitting, tearing up the English countryside on his Harley Davidson. -
JORGE R. MOUKEL
- Apple Engineer
- M.Sc. Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- TheGrint's Lead iOS Developer.
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Divyendu Singh
Divyendu is from the top part of India, a beautiful place called Jammu and Kashmir.
He loves to write code both as a hobby and production level. He has been writing hobby code for over a decade and professionally for 3 years.
When not coding he engages in football, reading, travels, food (not in order).
He can be found on twitter @divyenduz, github @divyenduz, personal site divyendusingh.com and his blog -
James Taylor
James is an iOS developer living in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is an avid road cyclist who has taken solo rides from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles to Phoenix. It's difficult to find him in a situation where he isn't either developing or cycling!
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Ray Wenderlich
Ray is part of a great team - the raywenderlich.com team, a group of over 100 developers and editors from across the world. He and the rest of the team are passionate both about making apps and teaching others the techniques to make them.
When Ray’s not programming, he’s probably playing video games, role playing games, or board games. -
David Worsham
David has a passion for continuous improvement. His ongoing goal is to bring practice improvements to teams large and small.
When he's not developing custom ERP systems and supporting IOS apps, he plays drums and bass and enjoys travelling with his wife and daughters.
Swift Team
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Jawwad Ahmad
Jawwad is a freelance iOS Developer interested in the Healthcare and Education space (and is currently available for contract work). He enjoys teaching and was the original founder of the of the NYC iOS Study Group. He's worked for companies as large as The New York Times, and as small as GateGuru, a 6 person startup.
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Gemma Barlow
Gemma has been an iOS Developer since 2009 and loves travel, coffee, wine and code. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, she now resides in fabulous Brooklyn. She spends her 9-5 as an Engineering Manager at Etsy, looking after the 'Buy on Etsy' mobile apps.
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Eric Cerney
Eric is an iOS Software Engineer in San Francisco. After being acquired by Capital One, he likes to spend his days at work hanging out with Samuel L. Jackson and asking everyone "What's in your wallet?". Lately his main focus has been with Swift and gaining a deeper knowledge of programming languages at the core.
Outside iOS, his interests are tinkering with hardware (Raspberry Pi and Arduino), gaming, exploring San Francisco, and regretting endless Netflix marathons. You can find Eric on Twitter or his personal site. -
Evan Dekhayser
Evan Dekhayser is the 18 year old developer of Pitch X, Chute Out, and Contact Archiver. He hopes to continue learning and improving while helping others take their first steps into coding. If he is not programming, he is at school or playing baseball.
You can find him on Twitter. -
Ray Fix
Ray Fix is using Swift to help create Revolve--the next generation in research microscopy at Echo Laboratories. In addition to his role as Swift Team Lead for Ray Wenderlich, he organizes several iOS/Swift meetups around Southern California.
Ray is mostly-fluent in spoken and written Japanese and stays healthy by walking, jogging, and playing ultimate frisbee. When he is not doing one of those things, he is writing and dreaming of code in Swift. よろしくお願い致します。 -
Matt Galloway
Matt is the founder of SwipeStack, a mobile development company based in London, UK which create apps for clients and also a few of their own. One client's app was featured by Apple in the best apps of 2011, the App Rewind in the newsstand category.
BeerMap is one of their own creations, helping beer drinkers find a great pub near them! You can find him on Twitter. -
Erik Kerber
Erik is an iOS guy from Minneapolis. Currently a Lead iOS developer at Target, and an independent consultant at Distilled Bits.
Outside of coding, he enjoys cramming as much outdoor activity into summer as he can (running, cycling, rowing, fishing, cabin-ing). In the winter, he patiently waits for summer.
You can find Erik on Twitter or his homepage. -
Mikael Konutgan
Mikael is a mathematician, iOS engineer and rubyist previously based in Vienna, Austria. He recently relocated to New York City and is helping people to start investing at Stash.
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Kelvin Lau
Kelvin is a Swift Developer. He currently maintains the Swift Algorithm Club. In his free time, he dabbles in web development and server side Swift.
Outside of programming work, he's an aspiring entrepreneur. You can find him on his twitter at @KelvinlauKL -
Ben Morrow
Ben Morrow is a developer, author, and hackathon organizer. With the Apple Watch community, he's been teaching tools and techniques for the past year to be ready to launch apps when the new device released. Find more video and code at http://happy.watch →
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Vincent Ngo
Vincent is a writer, guitarist, and developer. He currently works at Capital One as an iOS developer attempting to make banking insanely great.
When Vincent is not working he enjoys coding for fun, playing video games, enjoying time with family and friends and golfing. With hard work and dedication he hopes to one day become a golfer to play in small tournaments. -
Ross O\'Brien
Ross snuck into the world of iOS development in 2010, and hasn't been thrown out yet. He's a keen Swift developer, enjoys board gaming and ceilidh dancing, and would absolutely love a cup of tea, milk no sugar ta, thank you for offering.
He currently works near Manchester, UK. -
Cosmin Pupăză
I'm the author of the Swift Apprentice. I blog about Swift and iOS development at cosminpupaza.wordpress.com and on the Swift tutorial team at appcoda.com. When not coding, I play the guitar or read a good book. You can contact me at cosminpupaza@gmail.com, on Facebook, Twitter and Google+
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Steven Van Impe
Steven is a computer science lecturer at the University College of Ghent, Belgium. When he's not teaching, Steven can be found on his bike, rattling over cobblestones and sweating up hills, or relaxing around the table, enjoying board games with friends.
You can contact Steven on Twitter. -
Niv Yahel
My name is Niv Yahel and I'm a senior software engineer at Opencare. I'm extremely passionate about coding and even more so about helping others improve. When I'm not working, I can be found following more tutorials, reading books, playing video games, or playing guitar.
iOS Team
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Christine Abernathy
Christine is an Engineer on the Developer Advocacy team at Facebook. In this role, she is focused on helping grow the mobile developer ecosystem with emphasis on Android, iOS, and the mobile web. Prior to Facebook, Christine headed up engineering at Mshift, a mobile banking software provider, delivering iPhone apps and mobile browser-based products.
You can find Christine on Facebook. -
Ryan Ackermann
Ryan Ackermann is an iOS developer on The Bible App. Developing iOS apps and games is his passion. Four of his apps are published on the App Store and more are coming. He has been dancing with Swift since it was announced back in June 2014. When he's not programming or designing something in Sketch or Photoshop he spends time with his darling wife Jamie.
You can usually find him on Twitter @naturaln0va or you can learn more about him by visiting his Personal Site. -
Scott Atkinson
I am a software developer in Alexandria, VA. In my day job, I am the iOS developer for Homesnap, a really great real estate discovery app. I also have two apps in the iOS app store: Metrownome: a coaching tool for rowing, and Preplist-K: a tool to help chefs create work lists for their employees. When I'm not writing software, I spend time rowing on the Potomac river or exploring new restaurants and cooking great food.
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Ted Bendixson
Ted's iOS career started five years ago on a chairlift. He and his friends created Skate Dice, an iPhone app that gives you a new skateboarding trick to try. It was a hit.
Now Ted works as a full-time self employed iOS contractor. He has built apps for Tanooki Labs, Tradable & Dow Jones, and many others. He also enjoys blogging about iOS development and prototyping new indie game ideas.
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Marin Bencevic
I'm a Swift developer who likes to work on cool iOS apps, nerd out about programming, learn new things and then blog about it. Mostly, though, I just cause SourceKit crashes. I also have a chubby cat.
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Scott Berrevoets
Scott is an iOS developer at Lyft and an avid open source contributor. With libraries like SDCAlertView and SDCAutoLayout, he tries to improve those parts where the iOS SDK falls short.
He occasionally blogs at ScottBerrevoets.com and is also active on GitHub and Twitter. -
Paride Broggi
Product innovation + iOS engineer @blackpills, philosophy graduate, minimalist.
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Owen L Brown
Owen L Brown is a software engineer with a strong background in mechanical and electrical design. He has 17+ years of experience in writing microcontroller code for machine automation. For the last several years, he has focused on integrating machine control with iOS using Bluetooth. He has several cool machine-control Bluetooth LE applications on the app store. Owen is also the author of a book called 'Integrating iOS Bluetooth LE with PIC18 Microcontrollers'. He can be reach via email. Feel free to checkout his website at Back-40.com.
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Nikolas Burk
Nikolas is an experienced iOS developer and passionate about teaching and sharing his knowledge.
Having witnessed the birth of Swift as a Student Scholar at WWDC 14, he's particularly excited about Swift's functional language features and new architectural patterns that emerge from these. After he graduated with a Master's degree in Management of Information Systems in 2015, he attended the Recurse Center in NYC to study functional programming by digging into Haskell.
Nikolas then worked as an iOS Instructor at Make School in San Francisco before he joined Graphcool to evangelize GraphQL as a new API standard among native iOS Developers. -
Jairo A. Cepeda
Jairo is an indie iOS developer from the Caribbean. He founded HalfMagnet on 2010, a small studio releasing iOS Apps and Games.
When Jairo is not learning how to be a ninja developer, he's teaching General Physics and Topography. He also loves memes and pop culture. -
Michael Ciurus
Michael is an iOS developer at Jodel.
He likes to blog about his Swift adventures.
His love of computer games has led to him to look what's under the hood. He started with C++ at a young age and his first game was a memory leak simulator.
Addicted to discovering new technologies and learning iOS software architecture. -
Kevin Colligan
Kevin is a long-time digital media pro and newer iOS game developer. He has held technical and content leadership roles with the Grammy Awards, Major League Baseball, Acquia and Fox Sports. See kevcolLabs.com for more on his games or LinkedIn for his professional bona fides.
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Richard Critz
Richard is on career number three as a professional photographer (after first being a software engineer doing mainframe O/S development for 20+ years and then a stint as a corporate pilot) doing contract iOS development on the side. Some would say he just can't make up his mind. Actually, he just likes diversity!
When he's not working on either of those, he's probably playing League of Legends (with or without the rest of his family).
On Twitter, while being mainly read-only, he can be found @rcritz. The rest of his professional life can be found at www.rwcfoto.com -
Brody Eller
Brody is a 17 year old game developer from South Jersey. He is the creator of the strategy game To Russia With Love. He enjoys running cross country and watching movies. His favorite movie is October Sky. He also enjoys console gaming and playing around with Linux.
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Tom Elliott
Tom is an iOS Engineer working for Facebook in their London office. When he's not hacking up new ideas you'll find him on two wheels, spinning along the tarmac or bouncing down the hills :)
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Morten Faarkrog
Morten is a twenty-something Software Development student and iOS developer from Copenhagen, Denmark. He was first introduced to iOS development around the launch of Swift and has been in love with it ever since. He strives to learn something new about iOS development every single day and he has at least one side project running at all times.
When Morten isn't developing apps and studying, and his adorable cat isn't riding on his shoulders, he spends his time working out, reading interesting books, and diving into the world of biohacking.
You can find Morten on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. -
Darren Ferguson
Software Developer originally from the U.K. but now residing just outside of Washington D.C. in Northern Virginia. Currently working as an app developer specializing in iOS for M.C. Dean, Inc, a systems integration provider based out of Northern Virginia.
When not coding you will find me enjoying EPL Football, spending time with my family and traveling as much as possible -
James Frost
James is an iOS developer at Automattic, where he primarily works on the WordPress app for iOS. He started writing code in the early 90s on his family's BBC B, and hasn't stopped.
You can find him on Twitter, his personal website, and Stack Overflow. -
Alexis Gallagher
Alexis Gallagher has been failing to tear himself away from computers for over a dozen years, including tours in e-commerce firms in New York, in scientific research in Oxford, in front-office trading systems in London, and now via iOS in a pocket near you.
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Michael Gazdich
Michael Gazdich is a Pittsburgh native, a Virginia Tech alum, and currently reinventing TV as an iOS developer at Hulu.
When he is not working, some of his hobbies include Basketball, Golf, gaming on XBOne, or reading up on the latest and greatest in iOS Development! -
James Goodwill
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Joshua Greene
Joshua Greene is a passionate iOS developer who loves creating elegant apps. He's recently founded a boutique development shop called "Harmony Innovations." He's quickly learning there's much more to software development than just "software development."
When he's not slinging code, he enjoys martial arts, Netflix and spending time with his wonderful wife and daughter.
You can reach him by email or on Twitter. -
Michael Katz
Michael Katz envisions a world where mobile apps always work, respect users’ privacy, and integrate well with their users’ life. When not coding, he can be found with his family playing board games, brewing, gardening, and watching the Yankees.
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Andrew Kharchyshyn
I am an iOS developer. Mostly focused on OpenGL ES and SpriteKit. When not doing games, I'm most likely playing them or watching anime.
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Ron Kliffer
I am the iOS technical lead at Gett, a taxi hailing app offering taxi and black car services at a click of a button in New-York, Great-Britain, Russia and Israel.
I've been developing for iOS since 2012 and have recently set my eyes on game development with Sprite Kit.
I enjoy exploring new technologies and always look forward to learning new things. -
Chris Language
Chris is a seasoned coder with 20+ years of experience. He has fond memories of his childhood and his Commodore 64; more recently he started adding more good memories of life with all his iOS devices. At day, he fights for survival in the corporate jungle of Johannesburg, South Africa. At night he fights demons, dragons and angry little potty-mouth kids online. For relaxation he codes.
You can find Chris on Twitter.
Forever Coder, Artist, Musician, Gamer and Dreamer. -
Andy Obusek
iOS Team Lead for raywenderlich.com
Andy loves writing iOS applications, being a dad, doing anything outside, and playing guitar. He realizes there's always room for improvement, and thus is always trying to get better at what he does.
When not working on raywenderlich.com, he blogs in the minor leagues at cleanswifter.com.
Most of his code is written as the Mobile Team Lead working at AWeber. -
Mike Oliver
Mike has been a mobile junkie every since his first “Hello World” on a spinach-screened Blackberry. Lately, he works primarily with iOS, but he’s always looking for new ways to push the envelope from your pocket. Mike is currently the Lead iOS Engineer at RunKeeper, where he tries to make the world a healthier place one app at a time.
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Luke Parham
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Essan Parto
Essan is a software engineer with a business background. A type-in program on a Commodore 64 was his first experience with computers at an early age. Coming from the world of enterprise web-based software where he co-founded his first company in 2002, iOS has become his platform of choice in the past few years. His first top-selling app is found on the list of many daily stock traders and is featured by Apple.
Essan currently leads the mobile division of LimeSpot, a start-up based in British Columbia, Canada. You can find him on Twitter. -
Jeff Rames
Jeff works on enterprise healthcare iOS products at AirStrip Technologies. He found his passion in mobile software shortly after the iOS SDK was released, and made it his full time gig in 2011.
He spends his free time with his wife and daughters, except when he abandons them for trips to Cape Canaveral to watch rockets being launched into space.
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Nicholas Sakaimbo
Nick is an iOS developer who has been living and Xcoding in Brooklyn, NY for the last couple of years. Prior to iOS, Nick left a successful career in the banking industry to pursue his greater passion for code, design and building things.
He also occasionally writes about Swift, iOS and other things he likes on his personal blog. -
Lyndsey Scott
Actress, Model, App Developer -- www.LyndseyScott.com
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Adrian Strahan
Adrian is a freelance iOS developer and Project Manager living in the South West of England. He's worked on iPhone and iPad apps since 2010 (iOS3) and specializes in mobile- and web-based application development.
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Audrey Tam
Audrey Tam retired at the end of 2012 from a 25-year career as a computer science academic. Her teaching included Pascal, C/C++, Java, Java web services, web app development in php and mysql, user interface design and evaluation, and iOS programming. Before moving to Australia, she worked on Fortran and PL/1 simulation software at IBM's development lab in Silicon Valley. Audrey now teaches short courses in iOS app development to non-programmers, and attends nearly all Melbourne Cocoaheads monthly meetings.
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Richard Turton
Richard is an iOS developer for MartianCraft, prolific Stack Overflow participant and author of a development blog, Command Shift. When he's not in front of a computer he is usually building Lego horse powered spaceships (don't ask!) with his daughter.
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József Vesza
Software developer on multiple platforms, mainly mobile.
Interface Builder and Auto Layout advocate. I have been working with iOS since 2012.
Get in touch via Twitter or LinkedIn.
Browse my code on GitHub and Stack Overflow. -
Chris Wagner
Chris Wagner is currently working as an Independent Contractor primarily with MartianCraft focused on iOS development. Prior to this he founded and led the mobile team as Senior Software Engineer at Infusionsoft. Chris started “programming” by playing with QBASIC and the Lego Mindstorms kit (thanks Dad) at a young age. The next big thing was the web, as an avid gamer for many years (Rogue Spear, Counter-Strike, WoW) he continued to feed his passion for software development by building web sites for his gaming clan and others. After graduating with a Computer Systems Engineering degree from ASU he worked as a Java web app developer before moving on to leading multiple iOS development teams.
Android Team
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Godfred Afful
I am a software engineer at DreamOval working primarily on Android mobile development. I am learning more on front end development and I also have interests in renewable energy and IoT.
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A N Sreekumar
Sreekumar hails from Singapore and works as a solutions architect at Zoliotech. Together with his team of iOS and Android developers, he develops mobile apps for businesses in Singapore and the region. Developing games on Unity is among his favorite areas of work, as is training and grooming young developers.
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Namrata Bandekar
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Darryl Bayliss
Darryl Bayliss is a Software Engineer from Liverpool, currently focusing on Mobile Development.
Away from programming he is usually reading, writing on his blog or playing some fantastical video game involving magic and dragons.
Feel free to say hello on Twitter or check out his coding scribbles on GitHub. -
Tom Blankenship
Tom has been addicted to coding since he was a young teenager, writing his first programs on Atari computers in the early 80s. He currently works as an independent contractor focused on native iOS and Android app development.
In addition to working on side projects such as Animon Arena, a monster battle puzzle adventure game, he enjoys playing tennis, guitar, and drums, and spending time with his wife and two children. -
Sam Davies
Sam is a strange mashup of developer, writer and trainer. By day you'll find him recording videos for Razeware, writing tutorials, attending conferences and generally being a good guy. By night he's likely to be out entertaining people, armed with his trombone and killer dance moves.
He'd like it very much if you were to follow him on twitter at @iwantmyrealname, seek him out as sammyd on GitHub, or check his personal site iwantmyreal.name. -
Odie Edo-Osagie
Odie recently completed an undergraduate degree in Software Engineering and is a postgrad student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Always working on a side project at any given time, he loves to write code and enjoys bringing his ideas to life.
When not coding, he's probably watching something (film, TV show or anime) and is full of movie/pop culture references, but sometimes he plays guitar. -
Kyle Gorlick
I'm a software developer working mostly on mobile apps and games, including Fatman in Space, Guess That Fart, and Recent Contacts.
When not developing apps, I like to watch basketball and play volleyball. You can learn more about me and what I'm working on at kylegorlick.com. -
Joe Howard
Joe’s path to software development began in the fields of computational physics and systems engineering. He has been a mobile software developer on iOS and Android since 2009. He now lives in Boston and is a Lead Engineer at Raizlabs, a leading app development company dedicated to great software.
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Artem Kholodnyi
Artem is an Android developer with a degree in Aerospace engineering employed by Yalantis, an app development company. Artem has been interested in programming since he wrote his first program on a scientific calculator :P He drinks lots of coffee and reads sci-fi novels.
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Matt Luedke
Originally from the Chicago area, Matt is currently a Mobile Engineer at Exygy in San Francisco doing iOS and Android development. He's always writing something new on his personal blog at mattluedke.com.
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James Nocentini
James is an Android and iOS developer based in Brighton. He is a big fan of the offline-first approach for building apps and currently works at Couchbase. Always learning and aiming to write useful tutorials and workshops for the community.
Feel free to reach out on Twitter or Github. -
Eunice Obugyei
Eunice is a software engineer at DreamOval, currently focusing on Mobile development.
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Vijay Sharma
Vijay is a senior mobile engineer, specializing in Android, and iOS but has lots of love for all things mobile. A software engineer for the last 10 years, Vijay spends his days developing, his evenings being a loving husband and father, and by night, fighting crime (or possibly writing more code).
macOS Team
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Michael Briscoe
Michael is an Independent Software Developer with over 30 years of programming experience. Learning BASIC on a Commodore 64 way back in 1984, he's been hooked on coding ever since. He enjoys creating simulations and games for all Apple platforms.
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Warren Burton
Warren is an contract iOS and OS X developer living in London. Outside of his day work he creates interesting tools for Xcode development and mind mapping.
When not going screen blind, he goes mountain biking, hiking and surfing. -
Jean-Pierre Distler
Jean-Pierre Distler is an iOS Developer in Braunfels, Germany. He develops apps for 3+ years and is also interested in IT-Security and penetration testing.
When he's not on his computer he enjoys time with his daughters. -
Fahim Farook
Fahim is a developer with over 25 years of experience in developing in over a dozen different languages. Fahim's current focus is on the mobile app space with over 80 apps developed for iOS (iPhone and iPad), around 10 macOS apps, and a few Android apps. He's the CEO of RookSoft FZC in the United Arab Emirates.
He's lived in Sri Lanka, USA, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, France, and the UAE, and enjoys science fiction and fantasy novels, TV shows, and movies. -
Ernesto García
Ernesto is a Mac and iOS developer from Spain. After 16+ years of experience developing Enterprise applications, now he is an indie developer who focuses on creating great mobile and desktop applications. He's the founder of CocoaWithChurros where he develops Apps for clients as well as his own. You can also find him on Twitter or Github.
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Jake Gundersen
Jacob is an indie game developer and runs the Indie Ambitions blog. Check out his latest app - Factor Samurai! You can find him on Twitter.
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Zoltán Matók
Zoltán is an iOS and OS X developer from Hungary.
While he is not working or fiddling with new stuff, he likes to read insightful articles from around the development world.
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Gabriel Miro
There is a long list of Operating Systems, languages, technologies, companies (large and small) I have worked with. The short version is as follows. Today I am an indie iOS an OS X developer. Started back in the seventies as a system programmer for main frames. I am programming for the Mac since 1984 when the Mac was born. Between 1984-1998 I was the co-owner of a Software House, specialising in multi-lingual word processors and desktop publishing applications for the Mac. Was a freelancer for a few years, then joined IBM as a Senior Engineer in development. After leaving IBM, I returned to my old love, i.e. development for the Apple platforms.
I love cats, photography, cooking, reading, music (listening and playing). -
Andy Pereira
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Sarah Reichelt
I started programming in the early 1980s and was an instant Mac fan as soon as I saw my first one.
When it became possible to write apps for the iPhone, I taught myself Objective-C and started to program for iOS and then for Mac OS X using Objective-C. As soon as Swift was announced, I realised that it would be the next great thing and started reading and learning as much as I could.
I write my own apps under the name TrozWare and blog (mainly about Swift) at http://troz.net
I love puzzles, reading (mainly fantasy & sci-fi) and talking about tech and programming. -
Eric Soto
Eric Soto is a Professional Software Engineer and certified Agile-Scrum Master specializing in Apple iOS and macOS Apps. He is based in Palm Beach Florida, and routinely works with clients all across the US including major brands like GoPro, The Screen Actor's Guild, American Girl and others. During his 30 year career, Eric has accumulated extensive experience in REST APIs, web applications, server back-end systems, automated infrastructure deployments and more.
Unity Team
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Mitch Allen
Mitch is an independent game developer and tech writer. To download his latest games and book please visit his Web site.
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Gijs Bannenberg
Gijs is an indie Unity developer working from his own company www.oddz.nl. Gijs likes to work on educational games and art related projects. He has also started working with VR
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Mike Berg
Freelance game artist and hobbyist game developer... occasional author for Ray Wenderlich gamedev books.
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Brian Broom
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Sean Duffy
Sean is a software engineer by day, and hobbyist game and tools developer by night. He loves working with Unity, and is also a Unity Asset Store developer with a special focus on 2D tools to help other game developers. Some of Sean's more popular Unity Assets include his 2D Shooter Bullet and Weapon System and 2D Homing Missiles assets.
You can find Sean at his personal blog or on Twitter -
Jeff Fisher
Jeff is an indie game developer and co-founder at Luna Wolf Studios. He’s certified in Unity development, and has a degree in Game Design and Development from Wilmington University. Jeff has published numerous games for various platforms, and has worked with a variety of clients. When he’s not making games, he’s most likely talking about them.
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Todd Kerpelman
Todd Kerpelman used to be a halfway decent game designer, until he tricked Google into hiring him on as a Developer Advocate, and now he spends his time making YouTube videos. He figures it's just a matter of time until they discover he doesn't know what he's talking about, so he's stockpiling snacks in the meantime.
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Brian Moakley
Brian is an instructor at Razeware who develops courses and screencasts on a wide variety of topics of iOS development. When not teaching, Brian plays board games, studies aikido, and tries to keep up with his wife and two kiddos.
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Mark Placzek
Mark works with his wife making gorgeous apps and games, she does design and illustration and he does the coding.
Currently they are working with InfoAktiv making educational games and tabletop interactive applications for museums and other heritage institutions using Unity.
When work is slow he is also cooking up a social iOS app with a company he co-founded with some friends.
Besides that he's trying hard to give his kids the same misspent youth he had in video games, loves going to the cinema, and dabbles in am-dram. -
Anthony Uccello
Anthony is a hardcore gamer and the only thing he loves more than playing games is making them with Unity. He has contributed to 2 published games on both iOS and Android, and several apps which have seen use by many millions of users. Anthony is a Senior Consultant for Infusion (a consulting firm that helps build enterprise apps). In his little spare time Anthony is developing a hardcore tactical RPG.
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Eric Van de Kerckhove
Eric is a belgian hobbyist game dev and has been so for more than 10 years.
He started with DarkBasic, RPG Maker, Game Maker & XNA and now he makes games using Unity.
Eric also takes interest in 3D modelling, vector art and playing video games.
Eric is currently the Unity team lead.
Article Team
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George Andrews
George Andrews is a continuous learner and educator. As a Software Development Instructor at a local technical college he teaches iOS, Java, Android, and SEO.
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Alex Andrews
Alex is an indie iOS developer and the founder of Ten Kettles, a one-person (and two dog) company in Toronto that makes apps for music education. Apps include:
Waay: Music theory for songwriting – An applied music theory app with video lessons, custom exercises, and progress tracking tools.
hearEQ: Ear training for musicians and engineers – An ear-training app to build your mixing and live sound skills.
BeatMirror: Beat detector for rhythm training – Perfect for drummers who want to build their internal metronome. -
Antonio Bello
Antonio is a veteran code writer who started tapping on keyboards when memory was measured in bytes instead of gigabytes, storage was an optional add-on, and the most used language was BASIC.
Today he loves developing iOS apps, writing node.js backends, and he never misses a chance to learn something new.
He finds Swift a very expressive language, and still thinks Objective C is great and unconventional. -
Felipe Laso-Marsetti
Felipe Laso is a Senior Systems Engineer working at Lextech Global Services. He’s also an aspiring game designer/programmer. You can follow him on Twitter as @iFeliLM or on his blog.
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Kishin Manglani
Kishin has extensive experience building apps. He works as a freelance developer. Some of the more notable clients he's worked with are Cover, Venmo, Bustle, and Hatch Labs, which made Tinder. Kishin also teaches all things iOS at General Assembly in New York.
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Lea Marolt Sonnenschein
Lea is a Product Manager for mobile at Rent the Runway. She writes about iOS, UX and UI, teaches iOS classes at GA and volunteers for Girls Who Code. In her free time she plays piano, and tries to use code and technology to make art. Or she just doodles and listens to MIKA.
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Tim Mitra
Tim is a mobile app developer, podcaster and artist. He also teaches iOS dev, Swift and Objective-C. Tim is a lead iOS developer at TD Bank. He also runs iT Guy Technologies, a software development company in Toronto, Canada. He studied Fine Arts before there were Macs and he's worked for many years in software development, IT, graphic design, publishing and printing. He is also the founder, producer and host of the More Than Just Code Podcast on mobile app development & business. Tim is also co-host of Roundabout Creative Chaos podcast.
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Bill Morefield
I'm currently a mobile app and web developer who also has worked in networking and servers. I have been doing iOS development for about two years with my most recent app Coming Light released in November. When not online I can usually be found with a camera in hand or outdoors hiking and quite often both.
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Pietro Rea
Founder & software engineer at Sweetpea Mobile. Co-author of Core Data by Tutorials & iOS 9 by Tutorials.
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Cesare Rocchi
Cesare Rocchi runs Studio Magnolia, an interactive studio that creates compelling web and mobile applications. He blogs at upbeat.it. He's building Podrover and Affiliator. You can find him on Twitter.
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Adam Rush
Adam Rush is a passionate iOS developer with over 6 years commercial experience, contracting all over the UK & Europe. He's a tech addict and #Swift enthusiast.
When he's not writing code, he enjoys watching sports, Netflix and spending time with his beautiful wife and son. You can reach him by email or on Twitter. -
Tommy Tran
Freelance game developer hailing from down under. Currently developing retro games for the NES.
Loves dogs.
Resident Authors Team
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Soheil Azarpour
My name is Soheil Azarpour and I'm an engineer, developer, author, creator, husband and father. I enjoy bicycling, boating and playing piano. I live in Manchester, NH. I create iOS apps professionally and independently. You can find me on Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow and LinkedIn.
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Josh Berlin
Josh is a freelance iOS engineer who loves building thoughtful user experiences on mobile. He's built apps for the iPhone and iPad since 2008.
Josh recently finished culinary school in Austin, TX. When he's not coding, he's probably cooking or dreaming of food. -
Junior Bontognali
Swiss-Brazilian engineer based in the middle of Switzerland.
He loves to work on mobile technologies, but has a lot of experience with backend development as well with technologies like Rails, Scala, Node.js and Java. -
René Cacheaux
René, @rcachATX, is an iOS Client Architect at Atlassian, where he is known for his expertise in user interface engineering with UIKit, Core Animation, and Core Graphics. He has been engineering iOS apps since 2009.
When he's not coding, René loves to snow ski, ocean kayak, and root for the Texas Longhorns. -
Aaron Douglas
Aaron was that kid taking apart the mechanical and electrical appliances at five years of age to see how they worked. He never grew out of that core interest - to know how things work. He took an early interest in computer programming, figuring out how to get past security to be able to play games on his dad's computer. He's still that feisty nerd, but at least now he gets paid to do it.
Aaron works for Automattic (WordPress.com, Akismet, SimpleNote) as a Mobile Maker primarily on WordPress for iOS.
Find Aaron on Twitter as @astralbodies or at his blog at https://aaron.blog. -
Ash Furrow
Ash Furrow is a Canadian iOS developer and author, currently working at Artsy. He has published several books, built many apps, and is a contributor to the open source community. On his blog, he writes about a range of topics, from interesting programming to explorations of analogue film photography.
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Scott Gardner
Scott has been developing iOS apps since 2010, using Swift since the day it was announced, and RxSwift since before version 1. He's authored several video courses, tutorials, and articles on iOS app development, presented at numerous conferences, meetups, and online events, and most recently co-authored RxSwift - Reactive Programming with Swift. Scott is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, and he lives in the midwest U.S. with his wife and daughter. You can reach Scott on LinkedIn or Twitter, or by email, and check out his open-source work on GitHub.
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Matthew Morey
Matthew Morey is an engineer, developer, hacker, creator, and tinkerer. As an active member of the iOS community and CTO at MJD Interactive he has led numerous successful mobile projects worldwide. He’s the creator of Buoy Explorer, a marine conditions app for water sports enthusiast, and Wrist Presenter, an app that lets you control presentations wirelessly with your smart watch. When not developing apps he enjoys traveling, snowboarding, and surfing. He blogs about technology and business at matthewmorey.com.
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Vincent Ngo
Vincent is a writer, guitarist, and developer. He currently works at Capital One as an iOS developer attempting to make banking insanely great.
When Vincent is not working he enjoys coding for fun, playing video games, enjoying time with family and friends and golfing. With hard work and dedication he hopes to one day become a golfer to play in small tournaments. -
Ryan Nystrom
Ryan is a Software Engineer at Facebook. He is a passionate open source contributor where he builds UI controls and frameworks for others to use and learn from. In his spare time he enjoys flying planes as a private pilot. You can reach Ryan on Twitter or email.
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Derek Selander
Derek is an iOS developer who enjoys talking about LLDB and other debugging tools. All of his tutorials involve debugging in one way or another.
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Ellen Shapiro
Ellen Shapiro is the Lead Mobile Developer for SpotHero in Chicago, Illinois. She is working in her spare time to help bring Hum to life. She’s also developed several independent applications through her personal company, Designated Nerd Software.
When she's not writing code, she's usually tweeting about it. -
Marin Todorov
Part of: Realm and raywenderlich.com. Author of books and apps. More: <a href="http://www.underplot.com">www.underplot.com</a>
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Jack Wu
Editorial Team
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Chris Belanger
Chris Belanger is the Book Team Lead and Lead Editor for raywenderlich.com. If there are words to wrangle or a paragraph to ponder, he‘s on the case.
In the programming world, Chris has over 20 years of experience with multiple database platforms, real-time industrial control systems, and enterprise healthcare information systems.
When he kicks back, you can usually find Chris with guitar in hand, looking for the nearest beach, or exploring the lakes and rivers in his part of the world in a canoe. -
Andrea Lepley
Andrea Lepley is an author, editor, artist and twin. She edits written and video tutorials for RayWenderlich.com, and sells fun, unique coasters for awesome people at YayDelicious.com. She's also written a couple novels. She wishes she had spare time, so she could spend it eating cheese and writing stories about cats.
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Wendy Lincoln
Wendy is a full-time project manager (PMP, actually) developing content by day and editing tutorials by night. She has an unusual background that involves a cooking show, coffee, a culinary degree and thousands of miles walked as a political activist. Occasionally she closes her Mac to help her husband with home improvement projects or to get down with some serious yoga routines.
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Bradley C. Phillips
Bradley C. Phillips, an editor, splits his time between New York City and the beautiful northwestern Catskill Mountains. He was the first editor to come aboard raywenderlich.com, and he makes sure you've got the clearest, most engaging material available, whether you're reading the site's books or tutorials. He has worked as a journalist and an EMT and previously directed the intelligence department of a New York investigative firm. Right now, Bradley is a pre-medical student and edits on a freelance basis. Somehow he finds time to pursue his own projects, which include renovating a house and driving a monster truck. Contact him if you need a skilled and experienced editor for your blog, books or anything else.
Subject Matter Experts
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Richard Casey
Richard Casey is an independent software developer from Naples Florida, specializing in services and solutions for schools. A recent arrival to IOS land, he has been programming since the days of the Altair 8800!
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Adam Eberbach
Adam is a mobile developer with IBM in the Melbourne Research Lab. When not building software things he likes building hardware things, fountain pens, computer games, music and riding a bike.
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Ross O\'Brien
Ross snuck into the world of iOS development in 2010, and hasn't been thrown out yet. He's a keen Swift developer, enjoys board gaming and ceilidh dancing, and would absolutely love a cup of tea, milk no sugar ta, thank you for offering.
He currently works near Manchester, UK.
Reader App Reviews
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Ryan Poolos
Ryan Poolos (@EmperiorEric) is currently CEO of Frozen Fire Studios and subsidiary PopArcade. He builds games and apps exclusively for iOS both internally and for clients. His latest game is Hand Prix. His latest App is Atoll. Get in touch for your next great project.
Ryan has 6 years of professional iOS experience alongside 11 years of part time graphic design experience and 8 years of web development experience. Ryan loves everything tech and tries hard to stays up with the latest and greatest.
If you are a reader of this site and you would like your app reviewed, click here!
Razeware
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Chris Belanger
Chris Belanger is the Book Team Lead and Lead Editor for raywenderlich.com. If there are words to wrangle or a paragraph to ponder, he‘s on the case.
In the programming world, Chris has over 20 years of experience with multiple database platforms, real-time industrial control systems, and enterprise healthcare information systems.
When he kicks back, you can usually find Chris with guitar in hand, looking for the nearest beach, or exploring the lakes and rivers in his part of the world in a canoe. -
Catie Catterwaul
Catie makes things for, with, and about Apple tech in collaboration with her husband, Jessy! She is inspired by everyone at raywenderlich.com to be a positive force in the world.
When away from her desk, Catie lifts heavy things, runs around outside throwing Westside Discs, pines for excellent gaming experiences, and tells her cat, Princess Ozma, how fluffy she is. -
Sam Davies
Sam is a strange mashup of developer, writer and trainer. By day you'll find him recording videos for Razeware, writing tutorials, attending conferences and generally being a good guy. By night he's likely to be out entertaining people, armed with his trombone and killer dance moves.
He'd like it very much if you were to follow him on twitter at @iwantmyrealname, seek him out as sammyd on GitHub, or check his personal site iwantmyreal.name. -
Luke Freeman
A designer who codes, Luke works on the design and front-end development of raywenderlich.com. When he's not building for the web you can find him exploring the great outdoors.
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Brian Moakley
Brian is an instructor at Razeware who develops courses and screencasts on a wide variety of topics of iOS development. When not teaching, Brian plays board games, studies aikido, and tries to keep up with his wife and two kiddos.
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Mic Pringle
Mic Pringle is a developer first and foremost, but regularly turns his hand to book and tutorial editing, video tutorial making, and hosting the official raywenderlich.com podcast. Mic is 1/6th of Razeware, the team behind raywenderlich.com. An iOS developer by trade, Mic has recently found himself dabbling in Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript.
When not knee-deep in code, Mic enjoys spending time with his wife Lucy and their daughter Evie, watching his beloved Fulham F.C., and weather permitting, tearing up the English countryside on his Harley Davidson. -
Christine Sweigart
Christine is Razeware's administrative assistant and video editor. For many years she fostered a strong dislike of green screens which grew to a slightly unhealthy obsession. Fortunately, she found her calling in video editing and spends her days now making those detestable green screens disappear! She also helps RW team members and readers alike by answering customer support inquiries and performing administrative duties. When not at the computer she enjoys bonfires and stand-up comedy.
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Victoria Wenderlich
Vicki is Ray’s wife and business partner. She is a digital artist who creates illustrations, game art, and a lot of other art or design work for the tutorials and books on raywenderlich.com. She also runs gameartguppy.com, which is a website where she creates free and and inexpensive art assets for game developers to use in their games. When she’s not making art, she loves hiking, a good glass of wine, and attempting to create the perfect cheese plate.
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Ray Wenderlich
Ray is part of a great team - the raywenderlich.com team, a group of over 100 developers and editors from across the world. He and the rest of the team are passionate both about making apps and teaching others the techniques to make them.
When Ray’s not programming, he’s probably playing video games, role playing games, or board games.
Thank You!
Thank you so much for reading this web site and being a part of our community.
Again, we hope you enjoy our tutorials, and we look forward to getting to know you! :]
