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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:49PM (#50347396)
Location: USA Remote: Yes, US remote only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, Swift Concurrency, Core Data, CI/CD, Xcode, MCP, AI-assisted development Résumé/CV: https://addisonwebb.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addisonwebb/ Email: [email protected]

Lead iOS Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and modernizing native Apple-platform applications, including work on Chick-fil-A, Walgreens, and other large consumer apps. I enjoy tackling difficult technical problems and improving the tools and practices that make engineering teams more effective. Recent work includes eliminating thousands of production crashes, improving build reproducibility across an iOS organization of tens of engineers, and developing reusable SwiftUI components and tooling.

More recently, I've been focused on harnessing AI to improve software engineering workflows, including integrating Firebase, Proxyman, and Xcode MCP servers to enable agent-assisted debugging, implementation, and verification. I also build independent products, including Explore Michigan (https://goexploremichigan.com) and Park Guide (https://park-guide.com, under development). Looking for a fully remote Senior, Lead, or Staff iOS engineering role with strong engineering standards, autonomy, and a team that values collaboration and continuous improvement.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:02PM (#49924971)
Location: Michigan, USA

Remote: Yes (100%)

Relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, Swift Concurrency, Core Data, iOS/macOS, CI/CD, developer tooling

Website: https://addisonwebb.com

Résumé: https://www.linkedin.com/in/addisonwebb

Email: [email protected]

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Senior/Lead iOS engineer with 10+ years of experience. I'm primarily looking for a great team: talented people, high engineering standards, meaningful autonomy, and an environment that's enjoyable to work in. I enjoy making good software with great people.

Recent work I've done includes modernizing a Top 100 App Store application with SwiftUI and Swift concurrency, driving strict-concurrency adoption ahead of Swift 6, cutting build times by ~50%, and eliminating production Core Data concurrency crashes. I enjoy architecture, platform/foundation work, developer tooling, and difficult technical problems while staying hands-on.

I've spent the past year and a half incorporating agentic coding tools deeply into my engineering workflow, and I'm especially interested in working on a team that see these tools as an important part of modern software development.

This was probably my mistake. This is the first time I've ever done this so I just set up an account like a regular user. I didn't figure out how to link it with my Meta Business Suite until it was too late.
Meanwhile an account I created for a new product was permanently disabled by an automated system with no path for me to appeal to a human.

(If anyone at Meta/Instagram sees this I wrote a brief blog post with the details. Please help! https://addisonwebb.com/blog/2026-06-05-Can%20Someone%20at%2... )

1000% this. The App Store is stagnant because Apple refuses to improve their store to where developers choose to distribute their app on the App Store. 30% may have made sense in 2008, but it certainly doesn’t make any sense in 2020.
Re:Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:37PM (#23045135)
I sent an email to their support team asking if they had plans to open source their apps and they said, "there are no plans".
Re:Automatic (Car Adapter) Shutting Down on Friday May 01, 2020 @12:38PM (#23043855)
It's hard to believe they weren't acquired. The amount of driving data they have must be huge.
Re:MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem on Saturday February 01, 2020 @12:09AM (#22208826)
2.4GHz 8-core, 64GB, 2TB, 5500m 8GB, external LG 5k display, no fan problems
Re:Stannard Rock Light on Sunday January 26, 2020 @06:43PM (#22155696)
I hope to make it out to this lighthouse someday to get photographs. I’m trying to get as many photos of Michigan lighthouses for an app I’m building. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/explore-michigan/id1024621444
Re:Azure services in South Central region down on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:53PM (#17911197)
+1
Re:Show HN: Make a business model canvas in your browser on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @04:29PM (#17656803)
Very cool!
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage you money? on Sunday July 03, 2016 @08:03AM (#12025749)
I have used EveryDollar (everydollar.com) for the past year and it really helps me track spending. They have a plus version that only works with US banks but I have used the free version for a while now.