Brian Kayfitz

Brian Kayfitz

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ABOUT ME
Lead Flutter, iOS and Mobile Developer and Mentor
Lead Flutter, iOS and Mobile Developer and Mentor

Brian's career had him working on video games, eCommerce, productivity, finance and travel apps. After spending years working as an iOS and Android developer, he sees Flutter as the next big pillar for mobile. For more information check out Brian's website - www.briankayfitz.com

English
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined March 2017
EXPERTISE
5 years experience | 57 endorsements
I've been working with Flutter since the first public beta was announced in mid 2018. Even though it is still early days with the framew...
I've been working with Flutter since the first public beta was announced in mid 2018. Even though it is still early days with the framework, the results have been phenomenal. Flutter has taken best bit of web and app development to create the first cross-platform development environment that has zero comprimises.
6 years experience | 16 endorsements
10 years experience | 26 endorsements
I've been a mobile developer for over 10 years - ever since Apple opened up the iPhone for apps. I've worked in both the major mobile ope...
I've been a mobile developer for over 10 years - ever since Apple opened up the iPhone for apps. I've worked in both the major mobile operating systems in a multitude of industries including Banking, eCommerce, Travel and Video Games.
4 years experience | 13 endorsements
I've integrated Firebase services on a number of my apps. Firebase is often my goto tool to get started with developing a backend. This...
I've integrated Firebase services on a number of my apps. Firebase is often my goto tool to get started with developing a backend. This includes Firebase Crashlytics, Cloud Messaging, FIrestore, A/B Testing, Analytics, etc
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3 years experience | 1 endorsement
Amazon Web Services powers the backend for a few of my projects. I'm primarily focused on the traditional stack of EC2, RDS and Load Bal...
Amazon Web Services powers the backend for a few of my projects. I'm primarily focused on the traditional stack of EC2, RDS and Load Balancers with S3 and Lambda used for some small background jobs.
1 year experience | 1 endorsement
We're all in this together. For students and those who are currently out of work because of this horrible pandemic, I'm willing to offer...
We're all in this together. For students and those who are currently out of work because of this horrible pandemic, I'm willing to offer a reduced rate to help you on your learning journey.
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10 years experience | 27 endorsements

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(162 reviews)
Jacob Shaw
Jacob Shaw
June 2024
Knowledgeable, funny, and above-and-beyond helpful even at inconvenient hours of the night. Thank you!
adma.ai Engineering
adma.ai Engineering
April 2024
Great mindset and very insightful
Bazza
Bazza
October 2022
Highly recommended mentor! Absolute Flutter genius.
Bazza
Bazza
September 2022
Highly recommended mentor!
Bazza
Bazza
July 2022
Awesome Mentor! Highly recommend.
Bazza
Bazza
June 2022
Absolutely awesome mentor. Highly recommended!
Matthew Sneller
Matthew Sneller
April 2022
Very helpful and patient. Really fast at debugging and getting to the goal
Bazza
Bazza
March 2022
Brilliant Mentor. Highly Recommend!
MichaelJoo
MichaelJoo
March 2022
Brian has helped me to resolve my issue very quickly, great!
Bazza
Bazza
March 2022
Great mentor.Highly recommended!
EMPLOYMENTS
Flutter Team Lead
Raywenderlich.com
2019-06-01-Present

I run the Flutter Pillar at www.raywenderlich.com. Every month, we publish high quality,...

I run the Flutter Pillar at www.raywenderlich.com. Every month, we publish high quality, peer reviewed tutorials about Flutter and Dart.

Dart
Trello
Flutter
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Dart
Trello
Flutter
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Lead Mobile Developer
Recipe Unlimited
2017-01-01-2020-02-01

At Recipe, I've developed the core eCommerce iOS Framework that that powers some of the largest restaurant chains in Canada inclu...

At Recipe, I've developed the core eCommerce iOS Framework that that powers some of the largest restaurant chains in Canada including, Swiss Chalet, Harvey's, Montana's, Kelseys and East Side Mario's. The project was written in Swift and utilizes the Protocol Oriented Programming pattern.

We have also been exploring other emerging technologies, such as Flutter for internal applications that will support the day to day activities of 50,000 employees.

Git
Xcode
Jenkins
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Git
Xcode
Jenkins
Jira
Sketch
Swift
Fastlane
Flutter
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Senior iOS Developer
Bank of Montreal
2014-04-01-2017-01-01

I lead the InvestorLine Mobile team where we created two hybrid apps - a tablet app that interfaced with BMO's Everyday Banking L...

I lead the InvestorLine Mobile team where we created two hybrid apps - a tablet app that interfaced with BMO's Everyday Banking Line of Business and Standalone Cordova app which supported iOS, Android, Blackberry 10 and the web.

HTML/CSS
Bash
Dojo
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HTML/CSS
Bash
Dojo
Bamboo
JavaScript
Objective-C
Apache cordova
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PROJECTS
2019
Visited is a travel app where users can select all the countries that they've been to and still want to travel to. The app also provides...
Visited is a travel app where users can select all the countries that they've been to and still want to travel to. The app also provides inforgraphics about your travels including how you rank against all the other travels. Both versions of the app use a proprietary map control that was written from scratch. The iOS version was implemented with Core Graphics and the Android version was implemented with OpenGL.
Java
OpenGL
Objective-C
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Java
OpenGL
Objective-C
iOS
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Swiss ChaletView Project
2017
Fully native eCommerce app for Swiss Chalet, one of Canada's largest family restaurant chains.
Fully native eCommerce app for Swiss Chalet, one of Canada's largest family restaurant chains.
Swift
Fastlane
Swift
Fastlane