Matthew Guest

About Me

Hello, I am Matthew Guest - iOS Developer

I am a Bellevue based mobile developer who currently has 4 apps in the app store. My specialty lies in iOS and can do both Swift and Objective C. I am very big on self-learning and always take the opportunity to tackle new challenges, such as learning new programming languages and technologies.

My love for programming, startup experience, and my desire to finish whatever I start makes me a formidable candidate for a mobile developer position. Feel free to contact me for anything, contact information is below

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

- Henry Ford

Male
Born on May 21, 1995
Bellevue, Washington
Coding, Hiking, Reading

Resume

Education

University of Washington Tacoma

January 2016 - December 2016

Awarded a Bachelors of Arts in Economics

South Puget Sound Community College

September 2013 - August 2015

General Studies (Associate of Arts)

Work Experience

VideoFit, Inc.

July 2017 - present

In full startup mode, building enterprise level fitness app from the ground up with a small team consisting of another iOS Engineer and backend engineer. Current work revolves around building the MVP. Team follows agile methodology to push new features.

Personal Projects

Altimetrics

View Altimetrics on app store

Written in Swift
Implemented UIGesture Recognizers to change background color with a swipe
Made use of NSUserDefaults to persist the change in settings made by user
Implemented 3rd party framework AlamoFire for parsing weather data into app
App layout is made with the use of stack views and autolayout
Made use of CLLocationManager and Mapkit for retrieving user location and heading data

TopTechNews

View TopTechNews on app store

Written in Swift
Used a third party API to retrieve the top trending news from major technology news outlets
Used custom xib and UIAnimation to create a nice effect when user brings up menu
Used a webview to allow user to read the articles, made the webview traversable with refresh, cancel and forward/backward buttons
Currently working on implementing a favorites tab and using Core Data for persistence

Medium - Currency converter

View Medium on app store

Written in Objective - C
Pulled data from fixer.io currency API, did this manually with no use of external frameworks
Implemented a search bar for user to filter out currencies
Used API to set base currency from which to convert from, allowed user to switch currencies from a picker view and then any number typed in text field would automatically be multiplied with the current base currency and as a result would update the currencies in tableview accordingly
Used a singleton pattern for the currency data
Added a share feature

i-Morse, a morse code signaling app

View i-Morse on app store

Written in Objective - C
Used custom delegation to pass data around in app, for example, one delegte was used to pass the code name and description to a tableview from another screen and also selecting a tableview cell took the code name and passed it to main screen textfield to be translated into morse code
The entire app was created with no storyboards, everything done programmatically
Added animations on main screen that allowed hidden buttons to appear and played when text was translating. Added a nice touch to user experience
After text was translated user had two choices, to beep the morse code or signal the morse code with the iphone's flashlight (torch). Had to make use of the AVFoundation framework to access the iphone's light
App used Core Data for persistence, would save new morse codes the user added to tableview. User could swipe to delete if code was no longer needed