Blake Brandon

Technical Skills
  • Languages: Proficient with Python, Swift; Experienced with C, C++, Go, Java, Javascript, SQL.
  • iOS Architecture Patterns: Proficient with MVC, MVVM; Experienced with VIPER.
  • iOS FrameWorks: Proficient with Combine, SwiftUI, UIKit; Experienced with Alamofire, AVFoundation, CoreAnimation, CoreLocation, StoreKit.
Work Experience
Feb. 2025 - Oct. 2025
  • Launched a fantasy football iOS app in time for the NFL Season.
  • Oversaw staging and production environment builds for both internal testing and app store release.
  • Designed app architecture using UIKit for navigation and presentation of SwiftUI views.
Feb. 2024 - Feb. 2025
  • Led a small team responsible for launching an app (V.O.A.T) from scratch in a 5 month timespan.
  • Assembled several screens featuring SwiftUI components, filtering, pagination, and api calls with loading animations.
  • Constructed several reusable services to handle authorization, networking, and analytics that are easily accessible throughout the application using dependency injection.
  • Automated workflows to seemlessly create testing and release builds with Xcode Cloud.
Oct. 2019 - June 2023
  • Built, updated, and architected the main iOS application of a DFS and Sports Gaming application from seed stage up to the Series A round of $7 million. Maintained a rating of 4.7 stars in the app store.
  • Crafted several dynamic reusable components, utilized skeleton loading with shimmer, and built transition animations in order to create UI for several screens throughout the app.
  • Fetched data using RESTful APIs as well as WebSocket subscriptions for realtime updates.
  • Executed business logic to refresh and display data based on the current state of the app.
  • Managed iOS test flight builds and production releases to the app store.
  • Intergrated several third party technologies such as Firebase, Giphy, and Mixpanel.
Education
Sept. 2015 - June 2019 (Graduated after LOA 2022)
  • Relevant Coursework: CS108: Object Oriented Systems Design (Java), CS110: Principles of Computer Systems (C/C++), CS147: Human Computer Interaction (Swift), CS194 - Software Project (Swift).