Lee Hericks
IT Coordinator IOS And Rails Developer
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolLee Hericks is an experienced iOS and Ruby on Rails developer and IT coordinator with 13+ years building apps, infrastructure, and developer-friendly text rendering tools while living in Tokyo. Since 2014 he has run all IT operations for KAI Japanese Language School—designing enterprise Wi‑Fi and 1:1 iPad deployments while shipping native Swift/iOS apps and Rails web services as a solo technical lead. An early adopter of the Apple ecosystem, he contributed bug fixes and memory-usage improvements to the well-known DTCoreText project and rebuilt a custom furigana layout engine in Swift, reflecting deep expertise in CoreText/CoreGraphics and TextKit. He also follows Ruby metaprogramming closely, attends RubyKaigi regularly, and champions Hotwire-era Rails for productive, framework-light web development. Permanent resident in Japan and intentionally long-term in roles, he combines hands-on engineering with operational stewardship and an interest in architecture and design outside of code.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at KAI Japanese Language SchoolBS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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3answers
2questions
Github Skills (9)
objective-c10
ios10
coretext10
text-rendering9
memory-management8
actionsheet6
coredata6
iphone6
ipad6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Cocoanetics/DTCoreText
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Methods to allow using HTML code with CoreText
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lee primarily contributed to bug fixes and code enhancements within the DTCoreText library, focusing on improving the handling of text attachments and memory management. Their work included resolving issues related to layout and display of custom views, and addressing memory leaks in line truncation. Additionally, they fixed a bug where a class parameter was not being correctly evaluated. The user also updated documentation, specifically concerning attributes.
coretext
leehericks/SVGPath
Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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