Vernon Schierding
Founding Frontend Engineer at University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolVernon Schierding is a founding frontend engineer with 10 years of experience delivering production-grade iOS, watchOS, Android, and web applications for startups and enterprises. He specializes in architecting SwiftUI codebases and cross-device experiences—shipping an AI-powered Apple Watch health app with medical-grade HealthKit integration and building synchronized multi-device video and NFC systems at Nike. Vernon has repeatedly acted as the sole mobile owner, creating SDKs, CI/CD pipelines, and developer-friendly APIs while leveraging AI-assisted coding to accelerate delivery. His background spans enterprise offline/online sync, sub-centimeter GPS and drone integrations, and graphics-intensive 3D preview systems, reflecting deep systems and hardware-adjacent expertise. Based in Gainesville, FL, he consults on modernizing Apple Watch research apps and champions accessibility and platform-forward implementations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who turns “impossible” platform constraints into reliable production features.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
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Github Skills (62)
objective-c10
firebase-authentication10
authentication10
push-notifications10
cocoa10
firebase-storage10
carthage10
swift10
firebase-database10
firebase10
firebase-messaging10
azure-active-directory9
analytics9
ai9
gemini9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bayer-Group/TimberSwift
May 2018 - May 2021
A message forwarding framework for sending logs, analytics, performance, network activity, and other messages to the Parent Application
Contributions:7 releases, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years
message-forwarding
MonsantoCo/DJIWidget
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
The DJIWidget is a delightful DJI library includes VideoPreviewer for video decoding.
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year 5 months
widgetdecodingvideo-decodingdjivideo
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