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Josh Holtz

RevenueCat • Organizer of Deep Dish Swift • Lead Mantainer of Fastlane

Zach Brass

Mentor @ UnderdogDevs

Zach has been an iOS developer for over a decade at all different types of companies from startups to FAANG. He's also a mentor for Underdog Devs (go look them up). In his spare time, he's a dancer and dance instructor, and competes in the occasional pun competition.

Mikaela Caron

Swift over Coffee Podcast

Mikaela Caron is an independent iOS Engineer, and a member of the Swift Ecosystem Workgroup, who actively shares her expertise on social media, focusing on iOS development, building apps in public, and freelancing. She’s continuing to work on her indie app Fruitful, while also traveling as much as she can. She’s also an organizer for iOSDevHappyHour and loves giving back to the community.

Gui Rambo

Mac and iOS developer, security researcher

Gui Rambo is a Mac developer and security researcher from Brazil, known for apps such as AirBuddy and VirtualBuddy.

Thomas Ricouard

Staff iOS engineer @ Medium, SwiftUI addict, Open source lover

🍎 SwiftUI (and everything else 🍎) 🤖 AI prompt master (don’t ask) 👨‍💻 Staff iOS engineer @medium 🐙 Building open source apps 🇫🇷 Entrepreneur, iOS/macOS & more engineer 🫡 Previously @glose 📖 @google 🔍 & others

Thomas Durand

Indie Developer

Backend architect and security engineer by day, I'm also an iOS Indie Dev by night! On my free time, I'm building in public independent iOS app like SharePal and Padlok. I also share my discoveries while building on my blog. After a few talks, I'd like to continue growing in the community, sharing everything I learn along my journey of building indie apps, or reliable and scalable back-ends.

Tamia James

UX Designer and Co-Chair Of Women In Design

Tamia James is a Los Angeles–based UX Designer and Co-Chair of Women in Design. She blends psychology, community, and bold design thinking to craft meaningful digital experiences. Starting her journey with hackathons and Girls Who Code, Tamia now leads the Sketch LA community and teaches design fundamentals through her Udemy course "Designing Your First Mobile App with Sketch"

Montana Braswell

iOS engineer/developer

Scrum Master by day, aspiring iOS developer by night. When I’m not guiding teams to deliver with agility, I’m immersed in Swift tutorials, building my first apps, and volunteering with Underdog Devs to amplify new voices in tech. As a first-time conference speaker, I’m excited to share my journey, so I can pay it forward and help others to forge their own path into iOS development.

Juan Moya

Creator of Homerise + Vision Pro enthusiast

Colombian living in France for 12 years, Master in micro electronics, started working as iOS developer, later took roles as Business Analyst and Product Owner but recently switched back to iOS + visionOS development 🤩

Samuel Hopstock

Software Engineer, Guardsquare

Samuel Hopstock is a software engineer at Guardsquare, where he was one of the first engineers working on AppSweep, a mobile app security testing tool. Initially, he contributed to the Java bytecode analysis engine for Android apps. Since then he has shifted his focus to analyzing and protecting native iOS, Android, and Flutter binaries.

Quentin Fasquel

Senior iOS developer @ Luni

Around the iOS scene since the beginning, Quentin has grown alongside Objective-C and Swift, working across teams from Palo Alto to Paris. After freelancing for a few years, he’s now back at an app studio—still shipping, still learning, still in love with the platform.

Mike Gerasymenko

Staff iOS engineer at Delivery Hero, Berlin

Customer and quality focused mobile engineer in love with mobile platforms. I've been building software for quite a while: over 14 years of software development experience, 12 years of iOS. I have experience working on great products and I am excited to see them used.

Oleksii Kirizii

Head of iOS @ bikemap

Oleksii is the Head of iOS at Bikemap, an Austrian-based company that offers navigation, routes-tracking and sharing services for cyclists worldwide. IT, UI, and graphics have been his passions since childhood, and he has found the perfect combination of these in the world of iOS development, which he entered 13 years ago and has enjoyed ever since.

Matt Massicotte

Apple Platform Developer

Matt keeps himself busy with training, consulting, writing, and working on open source projects. From individuals all the way up to large teams, he loves working with people to understand and solve problems. He's been developing for Apple platforms for about 30 years.

Alex Logan

Lead iOS Developer at Applause

With a history of success on both the App Store and Play Store, Alex takes a passion for Apple and turns it into wonderful products.

An advocate for gorgeous apps where the codebase is just as nice to look at as the UI, Alex adores working with people from all backgrounds to get the best for our apps.

Outside of work, Alex spends his time building Four Sixteen & Running.

Marcin Krzyzanowski

Bugs Hunter. Swifter. Open Sourcer.

Bugs Hunter. Building Notepad.exe on Mac. Encrypting CryptoSwift.io, ObjectivePGP.com. Building text editors. Shipping on Linux.

Cihat Gündüz

Spatial-first Indie Developer

iOS Developer since 2011, Indie since 2022. Creator of open source tools like BartyCrouch (localization), HandySwift (utilities), and ErrorKit (error handling). Organizer of WWDC Notes community project. Lead iOS teams in 2 companies. Shipped 8 indie apps across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro including developer tools (TranslateKit, FreemiumKit), and consumer apps (CrossCraft, Posters, & more).

Ben Freiband

Duo Security, Software Engineer

Ben is a software engineer at Duo Security, where he works on the Duo Mobile app. With nearly seven years of experience in iOS ranging from leading as a startup CTO to collaborating on larger, security-focused teams, Ben is passionate about building products people love and fostering environments where learning and kindness go hand in hand. He has three cats and is a lover of all things nerdy.

Manuel Kehl

Indie developer building Zenitizer and other apps for Apple platforms

Manuel develops and designs apps for Apple platforms; primarily Zenitizer: a clutter-free meditation timer. He loves diving into ways to deeply integrate apps with native platform features and make them feel at home on Apple devices of all shapes and sizes.

Before going indie, he worked as an engineer at Apple for five years.

Peter Steinberger

Founder PSPDFKit.

Peter founded and bootstrapped PSPDFKit in 2011 and since then grew the company to 50 employees, with the goal of providing the highest quality PDF framework for all platforms. He stepped down as CEO in late 2019 and moved to a research role to focus on new products and technologies. His latest mission was becoming an expert in Apple's SwiftUI. Peter has worked with iOS since the inception of the iPhone, and is regularly invited to speak at conferences around the world. He also organizes Cocoaheads, a meetup for developers that work with Apple platforms. Prior to PSPDFKit, he worked as a Senior iOS Engineer at a startup in San Francisco and taught iOS and Mac development at his alma mater, the Vienna University of Technology.