- Email: work@daniellove.net
- Website: daniellove.net
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danlove
- Github: 4eleven7
- Twitter: @4eleven7
Available for freelance iPhone, iPad, Watch and TV application development contracts.
Or full builds (from concept, wireframes to design, and development).
Solid experience in developing mobile applications with commercial experience in Swift and Objective-C.
Previously worked in start-ups, fast paced advertising agencies & large corporations. With a strong sense of native app design & development, focusing on usability & user experience.
Passionate about working on products that allow people using the app to better themselves, or improve their day-to-day life. Such as health, fitness, cooking, learning, or social.
- Commercial iOS development since 2010.
- Commercial experience in Swift, and Objective-C.
- Open Source projects available on GitHub, in both Swift and Objective-C.
- Built iPhone, iPad and Apple TV apps for clients.
- Some experience in Apple Watch + OS X apps.
- Fast learner. Adaptable. Pragmatic.
- Manual memory management, as well as ARC.
- Multithreaded development, including GCD and blocks.
- Unit testing, and test driven development.
- Fastlane, CocoaPods, and modules/frameworks.
- Memory, graphics, and performance profiling using Instruments.
- Agile projects.
- Understanding of design, and animation.
- Design experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, and PaintCode.
- Used to handling design source files (PSD etc), and translating those into a working interface. No need for hand holding or extracting assets for me.
11/15 - 02/16
Lead developer (on a team of 2) on Burberry App for Apple TV.
Burberry's first ever app.
Liaised and met regularly with Apple UK to create a bespoke Apple TV app.
Featured completely custom interface, with interactive transitions, live event countdown/stream, and a custom video player (split screen product details with video loops). Built with test driven development, and using Storyboards to reduce the amount of visual code we needed to produce.
Adapted and learnt quickly as tvOS lacks a lot of the features iOS has, and uses a new indirect interaction model called ‘focus’.
Swift, tvOS, XCTest, Storyboards, AVKit, IBInspectable
05/15 - 10/15
Lead developer on ‘Elbi - good on the go’.
Quick micro-actions and donations to bring charities into 21st century.
Brought in to take the existing prototype ideas to production level. Working closely with UX, design and product to shape the ideas and feedback suggestions. Architected and built the majority of the app, including a way to quickly iterate on designs using IBInspectable.
Sole developer for the first 4 months, with another contractor coming in to assist with the extra features the company wanted in prelaunch.
The simple app, featured an increasing amount of complexity, from custom transitions/animations, to a draw/vote/message/photo tool.
Deadlines set based on an external event (Clintons Global Initiative), rather than the work load, ensured we had to be pragmatic and extremely agile.
Swift & Objective-C, iOS, XCTest, CoreData, modules, Cocoapods, Storyboards, IBInspectable.
09/14 - 04/15
After Vubiquity purchased FilmFlex, they removed all apps, and started building a video on demand platform.
We used the latest technology, building multiple prototypes for the sales team. Using a modular design, built to be customised by a CMS, modules such as vouchers, or download manager, could be replaced or removed without requiring developer resource.
Swift, iOS, MS PlayReady DRM, test driven development, CoreData, modules, build servers, push notifications.
04/12 - 09/14
Built a video on demand application, ready to be customised and styled for brands.
Featured a store, rentals, offline downloads & file management, ActiveCloak DRM, and bespoke features for clients, such as cinema listings, 2 for 1 cinema vouchers, and live video stream of the BAFTAs.
Also built a prototype inflight entertainment system
Objective-C, iOS, ActiveCloak DRM, CoreData.
07/10 - 03/12
Lead developer on Jamie Oliver’s Recipes.
Fully customised interface, while matching the feel and experience of the standard UIKit controls.
Complex Mac AppKit app allowing content team to input recipes, allowing differing ingredients/portion sizes, image scaling, optimisation, and localisation.
The app was one of the first cooking apps to feature many new features such as in-app purchasing, voice recognition, iCloud, and A/B testing. As well as subtle small details, Instruments/profiling, accessibility and responsiveness.
Over 10 million active users (as of December 2013).
Multiple awards. Various adverts/press from Apple.
Objective-C, iOS, CoreData, CoreText, CoreGraphics.
04/09 - 12/09
Created the BBC iPlayer for the Nintendo Wii. We matched the native Nintendo Wii gestures and conventions.
02/08 - 04/09
Worked on various client projects, such as Ferrari, Fiat and Nike.
05/07 - 02/08
Worked on various client projects, such as Rolls-Royce, Honda F1, Sunseeker, RedBull, and BBC,
11/06 - 05/07
Worked on various client projects, such as Silverstone Racing Circuit, JCD, British Touring Cars, and Amber Lounge.