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Daniel Gump

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Hello, I’m Daniel Gump, a senior software engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and building cross‑platform mobile apps and web solutions across iOS/macOS and scalable LAMP stacks.

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Hello, I’m Daniel Gump, a senior software engineer with 20+ years of experience designing and building cross‑platform mobile apps and web solutions across iOS/macOS and scalable LAMP stacks. I specialize in mobile development, cross‑platform engineering, and backend architecture, with a passion for ML, NLP, voice recognition, computer vision, and depth-map analysis.

I thrive on delivering customer‑centric products, improving platform intelligence, and driving experimentation‑led innovation, while keeping codebases clean, well‑tested, and well‑documented. I’m excited to contribute leadership and hands‑on technical excellence to impactful technology initiatives.

  • Joined February 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent
  • Spanish; CastilianIntermediate
  • Navajo, NavahoBeginner

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Gaming
  • Education
  • Professional Services
  • Computers & Electronics
  • Government
  • Transportation & Logistics

More experts in Columbus, United States

Projects · 2

This K-12 digital event ticketing app has peaked in the Top 5 in the App Store for the Sports category. I was the lead developer on the iOS side and worked on Android for a few tasks.

Technology implemented include:

  • Swift for both UIKit and SwiftUI
  • Core Bluetooth for Bluetooth LE beacons (iBeacons)
  • Core ML for a custom part-of-speech tagger model to support natural language search
  • Secure authentication with Clerk
  • Google Firebase / Crashlytics
  • XCTest for unit testing
  • Xcode Cloud with GitHub for CI/CD
Hometown Fan (Hometown Ticketing, Inc.)
  • AI Developer
  • App Developer

This is an effort to explore a combination of technologies under the umbrella of artificial intelligence to create a tool for translating the Navajo (Diné) language into American English.

The project’s natural language processing aspect focuses on Apple’s Core ML word tagger model (a parts-of-speech tagger variant) to assist with interlinear translation. The training data come from custom spreadsheets built with over 12000 (and growing) word-tokenized records containing words, phrases, and long textual passages, totaling more than 54000 tokens. Once the dataset considerably grows, this project will likely follow the interlinear tagging with a second-phase custom polysynthetic tokenizer (for deep verb analysis) and a transformer model for true translation.

The Swift Package for the framework in on GitLab at https://www.twine.net/signin The “Navajo to English Translator” is in the App Store.

The Navajo Translation Project
  • AI Developer
  • App Developer

Work experience· 6 roles

Senior Software Engineer · Home Town Ticketing, IncNov 2020 – Nov 2025 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Pitched and led development for Hometown’s flagship offline ticket-scanning feature; led Agile/Scrum team that developed a Top-5 sports app; integrated secure third‑party services for credit card POS, advertising, data analytics, and account authorization; implemented REST APIs, Google Firebase, Universal Links, DocC, and Git workflows; extended platform parity to Android and React Native (iOS) with legacy Objective-C modules; optimized backend performance in the LAMP/OpenSearch stack and enhanced analytics using Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Apple Wallet, universal links, and API design improvements; authored technical documentation with Confluence, DocC, and Google Docs.

Managing Partner · Hull Breach Studios Ltd.Dec 2013 – Present · 13 yrs

Led development and deployment of iOS/macOS applications and Nintendo Wii U titles; architected scalable LAMP backends for gaming and utility apps; drove ML initiatives in NLP, OCR, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, image segmentation, and facial landmark detection; collaborated with international vendors for software marketing and publication; built the world's largest social gaming fan community for Nintendo mobile platforms; delivered lectures on the video game industry at colleges.

Senior Application Developer · NET PARK, LLCSep 2008 – Nov 2020 · 12 yrs 3 mos

Pioneered an on-device license plate recognition system to improve valet parking efficiency; developed scalable software solutions for valet and self‑park facilities using the LAMP stack; delivered integrated Web applications and mobile apps via a unified in‑house API suite; architected secure credit card processing and storage; participated in PCI-DSS compliance; onboarded client merchant accounts into Monetra.

Co-Owner · Happily Ever After Bridals and FormalsJan 2006 – Dec 2008 · 3 yrs
Web Developer · L3 Titan CorporationJan 2005 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr
Tech Illustrator · Aerospace Integration CorporationJan 2003 – Dec 2005 · 3 yrs

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Recording Arts, Digital Photography, & Public Relations · University of West Florida2030 – 2026
Associate of Arts (AS) in CIS and Software Development · Northwest Florida State College2030 – 2026
International Baccalaureate Diploma & High School Diploma · Niceville Senior High School1995 – 1999

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