Branden Russell
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Russell is a principal mobile developer with 11+ years of experience crafting high‑impact iOS and macOS applications and leading teams to deliver engaging user experiences. Based in Salt Lake City, he has guided mobile strategy and development at companies from startups to enterprise clients, shipping consumer apps on the App Store and driving measurable increases in user engagement. His background spans early web development at Reuters through mobile leadership roles at RAIN and Medici Ventures, where he also focused on usable blockchain wallet UX. A hands-on engineer and mentor, he blends broad technical fluency (C#, C++, Java, Swift, multiple cross‑platform tools) with a long history of product ownership and code review-driven learning. Unusually, he began creating professional websites at 15 and maintains an active independent app practice alongside his principal role.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Western Governors UniversityAS Computer Science, AS Computer Science at Salt Lake Community College
Spanish, Japanese, French, English
Github Skills (27)
sqlite10
typesafe10
swift10
linting9
alamofireimage8
appearance8
static-analysis8
linter8
visual-studio-app-center8
lds7
parser7
markdown5
keychain4
client-library3
xml3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brandenr/Swiftification
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
swift-extensionsextensionsswiftioslife
brandenr/LTMarkdownParser
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
swiftmarkdownmarkdown-parserparser
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