Simon Fairbairn
The App Drawer And Builder Guy at Never Ending Voyage
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Fairbairn is a seasoned iOS developer and product maker with 12 years of experience building polished iPhone apps, best known as the creator of the travel finance app Trail Wallet. Based in England, he blends hands-on mobile engineering with a background in web design, SEO and conversion-centred thinking from earlier roles, giving him a strong product-first perspective. He authored SwiftyMarkdown, an open-source Markdown-to-NSAttributedString converter, demonstrating deep expertise in parsing and rich-text styling on iOS. A former music student who turned a creative practice in drawing into app-focused UX sensibilities, he combines technical craft with an eye for detail and user experience.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA (Hons), Popular Music and Recording, BA (Hons), Popular Music and Recording at The University of Salford
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
markdown10
swift10
ios10
markdown-it10
nsattributedstring10
text-formatting10
nsmutabledictionary6
git6
coredata6
nsset6
nsdictionary6
continuous-integration6
cocoa6
git-submodules6
cocoapods6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SimonFairbairn/SwiftyMarkdown
Mar 2016 - May 2022
Converts Markdown files and strings into NSAttributedStrings with lots of customisation options.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:229 commits, 33 PRs, 59 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon implemented the initial version of a Markdown to NSAttributedString converter library. Their work focused on parsing and styling markdown syntax elements, including headers, italics, bold text, and code blocks, and handling nested formatting. The commits show an in-depth understanding of parsing and applying customisation options for styling.
markdowncharacter-stylesformattingmarkdown-converter
SimonFairbairn/VTAInAppPurchases
Jan 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 tags in 4 years 1 month
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