Pierre Houston
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorPierre Houston is a seasoned Apple-platform software engineer with 11+ years of experience delivering native iOS and macOS apps, from polished UI/UX to robust networking, Core Data and low-level system integrations. Comfortable as a solo developer or technical lead, he excels at re-architecting and refactoring legacy code, writing clear documentation and adding test coverage and CI to accelerate delivery. His background spans consumer apps, payment systems and system-level C++ work—he’s added macOS support to large cross-platform codebases and shipped Mac App Store software with an automated GitHub CI build/sign/deploy pipeline. Hands-on with Swift, Objective-C and kernel-level Apple frameworks, he reliably bridges design, backend APIs and platform specifics (push, in-app purchases, NFC, MapKit) to produce production-ready releases. Based in Vancouver, he’s currently freelancing and immediately available for contract or permanent roles, bringing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and cross-team collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (132)
dynamic-forms10
xlform10
ios-library10
swift10
tvos10
objective-c10
tree-sitter9
rust-lang9
code-editor9
ruby9
testflight9
clipboard9
multiplayer9
ios9
networking9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jpmhouston/Cleepp
Jan 2024 - Sep 2025
Batch Clipboard is a Mac app that let's you copy then paste multiple clipboard items at a time, like magic! This is the repo for v1.0.x, titled after the app's codename. The repo for v2.0 and forward is https://github.com/jpmhouston/Batch-Clipboard
Contributions:8 releases, 281 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
clipboardmacosmenubar-app
jpmhouston/RenameCommand
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
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