Thomas Ricouard
Developer Experience, Codex at OpenAI
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
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Top SchoolThomas Ricouard is a product-minded mobile engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years building native iOS, macOS and cross-platform experiences, now focused on Developer Experience at OpenAI Codex. He co-founded Glose (acquired by Medium) and led its mobile engineering teams to over a million distributed ebooks and 700K+ app downloads, evolving architectures from Objective‑C to Swift and SwiftUI. At Medium he shipped features used by millions and modernized the app into a Swift packages–based codebase. An active open-source contributor, his repos showcase polished SwiftUI clients (Hacker News, Mastodon, Reddit) and custom Flux implementations, reflecting both front-end finesse and full-stack thinking. Comfortable moving from product strategy to UI polish and performance debugging, he blends founder-level ownership with hands-on engineering.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mobile & Web development, Bachelor's degree, Mobile & Web development at ECTEIBTS, Informatique de gestion, BTS, Informatique de gestion at ITIC
French, English
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Github Skills (23)
apim10
ios10
swiftui-app10
user-interface10
ui-design10
uid10
api10
mastodon10
front-end-development10
network10
swift10
uikit10
macos10
swiftui10
kingfisher9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Dimillian/RedditOS
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
The product name is Curiosity, a SwiftUI Reddit client for macOS Big Sur
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 127 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on the development of the user interface for the macOS Reddit client. They implemented various UI components and views, including the post detail, subreddit listing, and sidebar views. The commits showcase the use of SwiftUI, and they also include the integration of images using KingfisherSwiftUI. Further contributions involved adding sharing functionality and enhancing the overall user experience.
macos-big-surredditswiftuiswiftmacos
Dimillian/MovieSwiftUI
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
SwiftUI & Combine app using MovieDB API. With a custom Flux (Redux) implementation.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 332 commits, 29 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Thomas appears to be a full-stack developer, primarily focused on building out the user interface and the associated backend functionality of the SwiftUI app. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on implementing new features, such as fetching and displaying popular movies, creating a user interface for movie details, implementing a search functionality, and adding features like wishlist and seen lists. Code changes also include preparing and integrating with the MovieDB API, and a custom Flux implementation, indicating a good understanding of the codebase's architecture.
reduxswiftui
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