Adrian Kosmaczewski is an accomplished software developer, a published writer, and a trainer with 22 years of experience. He is the author of books about software development, and has shipped mobile, web and desktop apps since 1996.
+41 (78) 739 47 76 • 45 years old • Swiss National (GE, BS).
Languages: French & Spanish (mother tongues), English (C2), German (B2), Italian (C1)
Resume: https://akos.ma/resume (also in PDF, MS Word & LibreOffice formats)
Mathematics for Machine Learning: Linear Algebra, Multivariate Calculus. Imperial College London, 2019.
Crafting an Effective Writer: Tools of the Trade (Fundamental English Writing). Mt. San Jacinto College, 2014. With distinction.
Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 2010.
Master of Science in Information Technology with a specialization in Software Engineering, University of Liverpool, 2006-2008. Graduated with distinction. Thesis: “Rem – A cross-platform UML editor written in C++.”
January 2017 – August 2018
Providing training services for mobile software developers all over the world on the following technologies: Android for iOS Developers with Java & Kotlin, iOS Development with Swift & Objective-C, Mobile Web Application Development with JavaScript, Mobile Application Testing for Android and iOS.
January 2018 – August 2018
Senior Software Engineer developing mobile and cloud solutions for various clients (Swiss Air Lines, Swisscom, Swyx, Schindler) in iOS and .NET Core.
September 1997 – Today
Professional software engineer with project management experience. Find out more in LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akosma.
SwiftMoment: A time and calendar manipulation library for iOS 9+, macOS 10.11+, tvOS 9+, watchOS 2+, Xcode 8 written in Swift 3.
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 Ars Technica and several publications.
Github account: https://github.com/akosma/
Objective-C and Swift for iOS and macOS development.
Java and Kotlin for Android development.
JavaScript for backend, web and mobile application development.
C#, F#, and PHP for backend application development.
Python for Artificial Intelligence tasks.
DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services.
Continuous integration: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab.
Further experience with: C++, Ruby, Lua.
Relational database engines: SQL Server, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite.
Web backend: Rails, Slim, Django, ASP.NET Core, Vapor, Express.
Web frontend: Vue, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Ext JS.
Cross-platform mobile frameworks: Ionic, React Native.
IDEs: Xcode, Android Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio for Mac & Windows, Vim, Emacs, AppCode, CLion, PhpStorm, WebStorm.
“Mobile JavaScript Application Development” – O’Reilly, 2012.
“Sencha Touch: Up and Running” – O’Reilly, 2013.
“Android for iOS Developers – Kotlin Edition 2018” – self published, 2017.
“De Programmatica Ipsum” – a monthly publication about human issues around software engineering, since October 2018.
Writing tools: Markdown, Asciidoctor, Pandoc, LaTeX.
“A Quest For A Better World” at App Builders, Lugano, Switzerland, April 2018.
“Developer Guide to Migrate Accross Galaxies” at App Builders, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2017.
“Being A Developer After 40” at App Builders 2016, Zürich, Switzerland; also at the Bangalore Mobile Developer Summit 2016, India, and at MiXiT 2017, Lyon, France.
Videos and transcripts available at https://akos.ma/#_videos.
Slides available at https://speakerdeck.com/akosma.