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Tim Oliver

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Perth, Australia + Tokyo, Japan

G'day! 😁👋

My name's Tim Oliver and I'm a West Australian currently living in Tokyo, Japan. Last year, I worked at Mercari as an iOS Tech Lead, and previously was at Realm as a Cocoa Product Engineer.

I've been a big fan of contributing to open source, and I've been publishing repositories for a lot of the components out my side project apps since 2013. I believe open source improves the speed and quality of software, gives back to the community, and simply helps so many developers in their goals of changing the world faster. 😁

Things I Do

  • I really enjoy building my own side-apps. At the moment, I'm focusing on a DRM-free comic reader app.
  • Included in that, I enjoy separating out and open sourcing the components I've built in the process for those apps.
  • My main open source project is an image cropping library for iOS that ended up powering apps by companies including Google, Sony and Adobe.
  • I regularly present at iOS conferences and meetups and have done so around the world in places including Italy, Canada, the USA, Australia, Denmark and Japan.

Why GitHub Sponsors?

I really enjoy releasing my work as open source since it has the opportunity to benefit so many like-minded developers. But that being said, there's certainly a level of overhead involved in running an open source project, and the more popular they become, the harder it is to keep up. 😅

With GitHub Sponsors, this will let me prioritise and invest more of my time to open source and the improvement and expansion of all of my public repos. I would eventually like to be able to dedicate all of my time to doing this sort of stuff, and this is certainly a massive step in that direction. 🙏

Thanks so much for your consideration! Have a good one! 😊✌️

@TimOliver

$120 would mean I could buy myself a nice cup of coffee everyday!

Current sponsors 4

@SD10
@muukii
@kittinunf
@scj643

Past sponsors 10

@juriadams
@iosdevted
@lonkelle
@peppy
Private Sponsor
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@beylerian
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@burin-t

Featured work

  1. TimOliver/TOCropViewController

    A view controller for iOS that allows users to crop portions of UIImage objects

    Objective-C 4,634
  2. TimOliver/TORoundedButton

    A high-performance button control with rounded corners for iOS.

    Objective-C 480
  3. TimOliver/TOPasscodeViewController

    A modal passcode input and validation view controller for iOS

    Objective-C 384
  4. TimOliver/PassKit-Business-Card

    A template for iOS Wallet passes that can be used like business cards.

    Objective-C 389
  5. TimOliver/TOSegmentedControl

    A segmented control in the style of iOS 13 compatible with previous versions of iOS.

    Objective-C 197
  6. TimOliver/TOFileSystemObserver

    A bullet-proof mechanism for detecting any changes made to the contents of a folder in iOS and macOS.

    Objective-C 38

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