Brandon Kase
"Brandon Kase brings typed functional programming to weird places. He has shipped production code on Android with Kotlin, iOS with Swift and React Native, and Web with JS/Flow/React. Brandon is an iOS core-experience engineer at Pinterest who came across functional programming while pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Brandon is excited that strong static typing and functional programming are becoming mainstream, and believes that techniques once reserved for academia will help industry produce more reliable software. He is in general fascinated by anything and everything related to well-designed programming languages and libraries.
Brandon tweets at @bkase_, his blog can be found at http://hkr.me/, and his website here.
Talks I've Given
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Composable Caching in Swift
Featuring Brandon Kase
Consider what it means to be a cache. You need to be able to
ios ioscon swift cache functional composable monoid caching -
Bringing Swift enums to Objective-C with macros
Featuring Brandon Kase
Swift enums allow us to clearly, concisely, and correctly model information. Without these algebraic data types, it's common to resort to poorly representing information with nullables. Extra nullables lead to unnecessary error checking and crashes, and crashes lead to apps that no one wants...
ios ioscon swift enums objective-c macros functional