Ian Mcdowell
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Mcdowell is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building Apple-platform software, currently shaping Shortcuts, Siri Shortcuts, and SiriKit at Apple. He combines low-level systems work—daemons, data persistence, and debugging—with polished UI craftsmanship like high-performance collection view layouts and interactive animations. An expert in Swift and Objective-C, he navigates UIKit, AppKit, and SwiftUI fluently and has prior experience on Office for Mac/iOS at Microsoft. His open-source contributions include enhancing OpenTerm on iOS with scripting, auto-complete, ANSI color support, and persistent history, reflecting an appetite for tooling and developer UX. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a practical focus on shipping delightful, reliable app experiences.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityMid-Prairie High School
English
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Github Skills (12)
swift10
ios10
mobile-development10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
uid6
html6
javascript6
front-end-development6
ui-design6
scripting6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
louisdh/openterm
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
OpenTerm, a sandboxed command line interface for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 14 PRs, 93 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the OpenTerm application. Their contributions included implementing auto-completion features using the InputAssistant framework, adding support for scripting capabilities with a new CommandExecutor class, and integrating ANSI color support for improved output formatting. They also refactored code, adding history features for command recall and persistent storage. Furthermore, they updated the project's dependencies.
command-line-interfaceiosbashcliterminal
ian-mcdowell/ibuild
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Build multi-architecture iOS libraries from build systems like CMake, Make, and Xcode.
Contributions:74 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
build-systemcmakeiosxcode
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