Adrian Kosmaczewski
Portrait by Gabriel Garcia Marengo.
Adrian Kosmaczewski is a writer, a software developer and a trainer. He is a published author, and has worked as a professional software developer since 1996. Adrian holds a Master in Information Technology from the University of Liverpool. Currently in charge of Developer Relations at VSHN. Together with Graham Lee, he is the creator of De Programmatica Ipsum, a monthly publication about the impact of software in society.
When not coding or teaching, Adrian likes to spend time with his wife Claudia, his cat Max and his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter.
Writing
Adrian has written or co-authored many books about software development, plus a novel, since 2012.
Adrian has been blogging about software development since 2004.
"Being A Developer After 40" – received more than half a million views and made the front page of Hacker News. It has been shared over six thousand times on social media, and has been translated by volunteers to Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese, Persian, Vietnamese, and Romanian.
You can find more at De Programmatica Ipsum, updated on the first Monday of every month, and his personal blog, updated every weekend.
Coding
Adrian has worked as a professional software developer since 1997.
Conway: An implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in 20 different programming languages.
SwiftMoment: A time and calendar manipulation library for iOS, macOS, tvOS, & watchOS, written in Swift 4 with Xcode 9.
nib2objc: Set of tools and utilities (command line, GUI, Mac Service) to transform NIB files for the iPhone into Objective-C code files. Featured in an ArsTechnica article by Erica Sadun in 2009. Featured in The Changelog in 2011.
eBook-Template: Template to create PDF, ePub and Kindle books with Asciidoctor
iOS7-Presentation: A short summary of new APIs and features available for app developers in iOS 7, built as a self-demostrating iPad application. Shown in the GOTO Nights in Eindhoven and Amsterdam (November 20th and 21st 2013) and Zürich (December 18th 2013)
You can find more at GitLab and Github, or at his Stack Overflow Story.
Speaking
Adrian is a regular speaker at developer conferences in English, French and Spanish. Discover and download Adrian’s slides and presentations at his SpeakerDeck.
2021
2020
"DevOps with GitLab and Kubernetes", webinar, December 2020 (website and video).
"DevOps in the Enterprise" panel discussion moderator, WeAreDevelopers Live Week, October 2020 (video).
"Quick recap on KubeCon 2020 and update on Project Syn", Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup, August 2020 (website and video).
"Docker and Kubernetes: the way to cloud native computing", webinar, May 2020 (video).
"Rancher @ VSHN", Rancher Rodeo, Zürich, Switzerland, February 2020.
2019
"Kubernetes Serverless Frameworks" Swisscom OpenShift TechTalk (slides):
Zurich, November 6th, 2019.
Zurich, October 23rd, 2019.
Bern, September 18th, 2019.
"Using GPUs in OpenStack and OpenShift Environments", talk together with Jens-Christian Fischer (SWITCH), hpc-ch forum on Cloud and Containers, University of Basel, Switzerland, May 2019 (video).
"A (Very!) Quick Comparison of Kubernetes Serverless Frameworks", Cloud Native Computing Switzerland Meetup, May 2019 (website).
"Refactoring Ourselves", closing keynote at AppBuilders, Lugano, Swizerland, April 2019 (video and slides).
"12 años de iPhone y iPad en 30 minutos", closing keynote at NSConf Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 13th 2019 (in Spanish, website, slides, and speech).
2018
2017
Workshop about server-side Swift & Docker at the second Swift Alps, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, November 2017 (website).
"10 Years of iPhone", MCE Conference, Warsaw, Poland, May 2017 (video, slides, and speech).
"The Developer Guide To Migrate Accross Galaxies", AppBuilders, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2017 (video, slides, and speech).
"Être Développeur après 40 ans", MiXiT, Lyon, France, April 2017 (in French, video and slides).
2016
"Server Side Swift: State of the Union", workshop at the first Swift Alps, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, November 2016 (slides, website).
"Making iOS Applications Accessible", Mobile Developer Summit, Bangalore, India, September 2016 (video and slides).
"Refactoring iOS Projects", Mobile Developer Summit, Bangalore, India, September 2016 (slides).
"Being a Developer at 40", opening keynote at the Mobile Developer Summit, Bangalore, India, September 2016 (video).
"Refactoring iOS Projects", UMT 2016, Dnipro, Ukraine, July 2016 (video and slides).
"Being a Developer at 40", AppBuilders, Zürich, Switzerland, April 2016 (video and speech).
2015
"Cocoa is the new Carbon: The Future of Apple’s Beloved Framework", Zürich, Switzerland, February 26th, 2015 (slides).
2014
"The Tao of Swift", Zürich, Switzerland, September 2014 (slides).
"iBeacons" (slides and code) at:
Durban, South Africa, October 28th, 2014.
Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 30th, 2014.
London, United Kingdom, August 14th, 2014.
Leeds, United Kingdom, August 13th, 2014.
Zürich, Switzerland, May 26th, 2014.
2013
2012
2011
"Integrating iOS Applications With Backend REST Services", at the Mobile Developer Summit 2011, Bangalore, India, September 2011 (video and website).
"Ten Commandments for iPhone Development", at the Mobile Developer Summit 2011, Bangalore, India, September 2011 (video and website).
"Mobile Web Rising", at the Mobile Developer Summit 2011, Bangalore, India, September 2011 (video and website).
"Introducción a las aplicaciones móviles", Foro de Tecnologia CAINCO, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, June 16th 2011.
"Introduction to iOS Application Development", OOP 2011, Munich, Germany, January 24th, 2011.
"Introduction to iOS Application Development", Scandinavian Developer Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, April 2011.
Host of the mobile track, and presented "Introduction to iOS Software Development", at QCon, United Kingdom, March 2011 (website and video).
2010
"Accessing Web Services From iPhone and iPad Applications" and Workshop: "Write your first iPhone App", JAOO, Aarhus, Denmark, October 2010 (website).
"iOS Application Development", JAOO, Zürich, Switzerland, August 2010.
Making of the digital2.0 iPad application, July 2010 (video).
"DevDay for iPhone", London, United Kingdom, June 25th 2010 (website).
"DevDays for iPhone", Geneva, Switzerland, June 23rd, 2010 (website).
"Panorama et enjeux du marché des applications iPhone", Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland, June 17th, 2010.
"iPad for iPhone Developers" event, Zürich, Switzerland, April 2010.
"Tips and Tricks on Building Successful iPhone Apps", February 2nd 2010 in London, United Kingdom, at Skills Matter (video and website).
2009
WebTuesday event "Mobile Apps with Web Technologies", Zürich, Switzerland, December 2009.
"DevDays for iPhone", Zürich, Switzerland, October 2009.
"Ten Commandments for iPhone App Development", Trifork meetup, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2009.
"Dix Commandements pour le développement d’applications iPhone", Développeurs iPhone de Suisse Romande, January 2009 (in French).
2008
"How to put your company in people’s pocket?", iPhone Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, October 31st 2008 (video).
2007
Speaker at the Lausanne Mobicamp (in French).
2006
Talks about "LINQ" and "SharePoint Workflows" at Microsoft DevDays, Genève, Switzerland, March 2006 (in French).
Podcasting
Producer of "VSHN.timer", weekly podcast about DevOps and Cloud technologies, since November 2020.
Teaching
Adrian has taught various programming subjects to practitioners all over the world:
2020
Various internal training sessions held at VSHN AG, Zürich, Switzerland.
"OpenShift" - private one-day introduction session for Swisscom staff, Zürich, Switzerland.
2016-2017
"Introduction to Android for iOS Developers" - 5-day course for the development team of BCG Digital Ventures, Berlin, Germany.
Taught private various courses as part of activities for AKOSMA Training, in the subjects of iOS, web, and Android mobile app development in Zurich, Switzerland.
2011-2012
"Mobile JavaScript Application Development" 3-day introduction course held twice in Zürich, Switzerland, together with Jens-Christian Fischer.
The contents of this training session form the basis of the "Mobile JavaScript Application Development" book published in 2012 by O’Reilly.
2009-2014
"Introduction to iOS Development" (3-day) and "Advanced iOS Development" (5-day) courses held for more than 400 engineers in various sessions, held in:
Zürich, Switzerland; London, United Kingdom; Munich, Germany; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and Århus, Denmark; in collaboration with Trifork A/S.
Durban, Johannesburg, and Cape Town, South Africa; in collaboration with Immedia.
2006
".NET 2.0" - 3-day course for the IT staff of the Swatch Group, Biel, Switzerland.
2004
"XML" - 3-day course for the IT staff of ABB, Geneva, Switerland.
2003
As a temporary trainer for Intersource, Geneva, Switzerland:
"Microsoft Systems Management Server" - 2-day course.
"JavaScript" - 3-day course.
"XML" - 2-day course.
"SQL Server 2000" - 5-day course for the IT team of the United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland.
In The Media
Adrian has often been interviewed and referenced in various media:
"CL#149- La guerre des Clouds a commencé en Suisse", interview at Cominmag.ch, February 2021 (article and video)
"Swift 5.0 – das Buch von approppo", article in the approppo.ch website, April 2019 (German).
"TTC - Toutes Taxes Comprises", interview in Swiss TV, November 2011 (video in French).
"Die neuen Schweizer Macher", article in the SonntagsZeitung, June 2011.
"No Mentirás", interview in Bolivian TV, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, June 2011.
"First iPads in Switzerland", April 2010 (video).
Le PoteCast 021, April 2010 (video in French and making of).
Interview by Junior Bontognali, 2009 (videos: part 1 and part 2).
Interview at the Unofficial Apple Weblog, June 2009 (video).
