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iOS Engineer · Oakham, UK

Hi, I'm Adam.

Sixteen years on Apple platforms — Swift, SwiftUI, clean architecture, TDD and CI/CD. Happy deep in a complex codebase or leading technical strategy, and a fan of growing engineering culture through mentoring and tech talks.

Blog

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· swift

Map, Filter and Reduce

Map, filter and reduce allow you to manipulate sequences. You iterate over a list of items and perform an action on each of those items.

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· ai, thoughts

When AI Forgets Wonder: How We Lose Ourselves by Thinking Less

AI is a really fast librarian, but with no imagination. Some thoughts on what we lose when we let machines do our thinking for us.

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Projects

Things I tinker with

TMDb

Open source Swift Package for The Movie Database API. Used across iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS and Linux.

github.com/adamayoung/TMDb →

Popcorn

Personal iOS, macOS & visionOS app for browsing movies and TV. TCA, SwiftData + CloudKit, Apple Intelligence.

github.com/adamayoung/popcorn →

Elsewhere

Say hello

GitHub

Open source & experiments

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LinkedIn

Professional history

in/adamayoung →

Email

For work or hello

me@adam-young.co.uk →
Working with
Swift 6 SwiftUI UIKit Swift Concurrency Swift Testing TCA SPM Tuist CoreML Vapor