Scott Talbot
Staff Engineer at Scentre Group (Owner and Operator of Westfield in Aus and NZ)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Talbot is a Staff Engineer based in Sydney with 19 years of experience designing and delivering mobile-first products and engineering teams across media, gambling, and retail property sectors. He has progressed from hands-on iOS development—contributing to notable open-source projects like PSTCollectionView and SimulatorStatusMagic—to technical leadership roles at Tabcorp and Scentre Group where he now shapes platform and mobile strategy. Comfortable across full-stack and CI/CD concerns, he has contributed to danger-js improving GitHub Actions integration and comment handling, showing a pragmatic focus on developer experience and automation. Scott pairs deep platform familiarity (including low-level embedded test tools earlier in his career) with a track record of migrating and modernising mobile UIs and simulator tooling for evolving iOS versions. Known for shipping practical, backward-compatible solutions, he blends code-level craftsmanship with people leadership to deliver robust, production-grade systems.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Digital Systems Security, Bachelor of Computer Science, Digital Systems Security at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (24)
objective-c10
github-ci10
javascript10
ios10
uibezierpath10
mobile-development10
simulator10
testing10
ui-design10
uid10
svg10
front-end-development10
uicollectionview10
github-api10
swift10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
shinydevelopment/SimulatorStatusMagic
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Clean up your status bar for taking screenshots on the iOS simulator.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Scott focused on adapting the status bar override functionality for different iOS versions within the SimulatorStatusMagic repository. Their commits primarily involve modifying and extending the code to support iOS 11, 12, and 13, incorporating changes for beta and GM releases. They updated data structures and UI elements related to the status bar display, ensuring compatibility with various iOS simulator versions. This included handling features like time, date, cellular signal, battery, and Bluetooth status.
ios-simulatorstatusbar
steipete/PSTCollectionView
Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
Open Source, 100% API compatible replacement of UICollectionView for iOS4.3+
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott contributed significantly to the `pstcollectionview` project, primarily focusing on implementing and improving features related to cell behavior and layout. Their commits implemented scrolling behavior upon cell selection and highlighting, and they added functionality for programmatic cell selection. Furthermore, the user implemented decoration views, enhancing the visual appearance of the collection view and introduced support for reuse of decoration views after animations.
uicollectionview
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