Résumé

Summary

Currently the iOS Tech Lead on Deque’s accessibility testing toolkit, maintaining the team’s Appium WebDriverAgent and XCUITest driver forks (TypeScript) and shipping AI developer tooling in the open: MCP servers, AI-driven test harnesses, and an on-device AI app. Actively exploring how developers actually build with AI today (agent skills, orchestrated MCP), with a track record of turning developer feedback into product direction.

Experience

iOS Tech Lead

Jun 2024 – Present

Deque Systems · Remote

Lead the iOS team behind Deque’s mobile accessibility testing toolkit; developer tools iOS teams use to ship accessible apps
Maintain the team’s Appium WebDriverAgent and XCUITest driver forks in TypeScript, testing across the toolkit’s Java, Python, and Ruby client suites, and built a SauceLabs physical-device pipeline that improved CI/CD reliability for iOS testing
Run internal developer education (office hours, iOS Foundations sessions, and company-wide tech talks)
Rated “Exceeds Expectations” for communication, collaboration, and humility (2025 review)

Senior Developer Advocate

May 2020 – Jun 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS Amplify) · Remote

Owned mobile developer advocacy for AWS Amplify on iOS and Android
Partnered with engineering to launch Swift Package Manager support for the Amplify Libraries, accelerating mobile developer adoption by 30%
Authored official AWS documentation, blog posts, course materials, and workshops
Represented AWS at conferences, developer events, and podcasts, delivering technical talks and live demos on mobile-cloud integration
Gathered and synthesized developer feedback to inform the product roadmap and improve developer experience across the SDK surface

Founder & Developer Education

Apr 2017 – Present

Kilo Loco LLC · Remote

Built the Kilo Loco developer-education brand: YouTube channel and kiloloco.com tutorials on iOS, Swift, and AI-assisted development (Claude Code, agentic workflows, MCP)
Ship open-source AI developer tooling and deliver freelance iOS/Android and AI-assisted web development for clients worldwide

Senior iOS Engineer

Apr 2016 – Dec 2023

SageDom · Santa Monica, CA

Shipped and maintained a social tennis app across 7+ years of iOS releases: activity feed, events/invites, and a full chat system with group messaging, blocking, and unread badges
Mentored junior developers and established code review practices

Software Engineer

Sep 2019 – Apr 2020

Bird · Santa Monica, CA

Built rider and operations features (Flight Sheet, Property Report), spearheaded the Flyer program onboarding, and integrated the Radar SDK and Bluetooth for scooter tracking accuracy

iOS Instructor

Apr 2018 – Sep 2018

SoCal Tech Academy · Glendora, CA

Designed and taught an intensive iOS curriculum (Swift, Xcode, UIKit, app architecture) with 95% student satisfaction and 80% job placement

Speaking & community

Full record →

Conference speaker: AWS re:Invent 2022, DroidCon 2022, Swift Heroes 2021, Hacking With Swift Live 2019.

Podcast guest: Empower Apps, CodeNewbie, We Belong Here, Talking with Apples, The Mayank Show.

Writing: 5 posts on the official AWS Front-End Web & Mobile blog, plus Amplify Swift documentation and course materials.

Community teaching: CodeNewbie AMA host; mentorship and career guidance for self-taught developers.

Core skills

Developer relations

Developer advocacy

Technical content strategy

Self-shot/edited video

Technical writing

Documentation

Public speaking

Live coding

Workshops

Developer experience

Community building

SDK adoption

Product feedback loops

AI tooling

LLM integration

Claude API

Claude Code

Agent skills

Agentic coding workflows

MCP

Prompt engineering

LLM evals & benchmarking

Apple Foundation Models

Core ML

On-device inference (MLX)

Speech-to-text & TTS

Mobile

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Kotlin

Dart/Flutter

Xcode

XCTest

Swift Package Manager

CI/CD (Fastlane, SauceLabs)

Appium

Mobile accessibility

SDK design

Cloud & other

TypeScript/JavaScript

AWS (Amplify, Lambda, Cognito, S3)

Firebase

CloudKit

Git/GitHub

Python

Selected projects & open source

Xtraktr
On-device AI iOS app that provides journal prompts. Apple Foundation Models, Gemma 3n, SpeechAnalyzer speech-to-text, local TTS (MLX), CloudKit. Includes a custom LLM eval harness with multi-judge prompt scoring.
Xamrock Studio
Developer testing suite building tool for mobile apps.
Open-source contributions
PostHog iOS SDK, AWS Amplify, Say Their Names.

Kyle Lee