David De Bels
Belgium
Summary
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SeniorDavid De Bels is a Technical Director with 11 years of experience leading iOS and Apple platform engineering teams from hands-on development to product ownership. Based in Tielt, Belgium, he combines deep expertise in iOS, Cocoa/Cocoa Touch, C++ and UI design with leadership roles at Appmiral, November Five and Appstrakt. He has progressed from developer to lead and product owner, showing a knack for translating festival and consumer needs into robust mobile experiences. A Howest Kortrijk graduate in Digital Arts & Entertainment, he brings a designer’s sensibility to engineering trade-offs and a practical focus on shipping polished user interfaces. Notably, he blends product thinking with technical direction, often bridging roadmaps and implementation across multidisciplinary teams.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
cocoapods9
project-setup7
zeplin6
map-box6
spotify5
swift5
ios5
notion-api5
notion4
objective-c4
bintray4
audio4
android-app4
macos4
maven4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Snppls/JSQMessagesViewController
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
An elegant messages UI library for iOS
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
iosui-library
DavidDeBels/Dye
Jan 2022 - Jul 2025
Real-time styling & design token framework for Apple platforms.
Contributions:1 push, 2 tags in 3 years 6 months
real-timeplatformstokenswiftios
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