Christopher Kornher

Software Engineer (AI-assisted) at AI-assisted Coding NonEvent Systems

Current role focusing on AI-assisted coding for multi-platform software, including iOS/macOS and backend components. Working with tools such as Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Windsurf to accelerate development; building SDKs and backend services; collaborating across Swift/SwiftUI, Kotlin/Jetpack, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and database integration.

Senior Engineer at Lab49

Led development of a high-profile banking application using SwiftUI; built reusable UI components, integrated UIKit for navigation, leveraged Combine, and implemented animation. Mentored other developers and contributed to architecture and production readiness.

Senior Engineer at PEX

Architected and developed a management system for large clusters (>1000 machines) in Go and FoundationDB. Designed command-line tools, fast-start system, and deployed with GRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

Senior Mobile Engineer at Cirrus MD

Lead iOS developer for a telemedicine application with chat, video, and document transfer. Modernized codebase, implemented GraphQL, complex animations, and robust chat features.

Senior Mobile Engineer at Major League Baseball

iOS development for a high-traffic app; modernized legacy codebase, integrated GraphQL, and delivered complex UI components with RxSwift and advanced animations.

iOS Developer at DaVita

Developed andarchitected medical applications in Swift for iOS; mentored teammates; refactored critical apps to improve reliability and maintainability.

iOS Developer at Allegion

IoT management applications for HomeKit. Restored HomeKit functionality after a rewrite, refactored protocol handling, and wrote unit tests for multiple HomeKit versions. Performed performance analysis using Python and Pandas.

Senior iOS Developer at Cardinal Peak

IoT-focused iOS development for high-end appliances; extended promise-based code, debugged networking issues, and mentored Objective-C programmers transitioning to Swift; implemented complex animations.

Lead iOS Developer at ShopAtHome

Re-architected an iOS app to 100% Swift; built generic components to reduce code size; implemented protocol-oriented programming; integrated location services and complex animations; mentored developers.

Chief Technology Officer at Flixtreme

Owned architecture and technical direction for an iOS social app; developed dynamic UI components, integrated extensive Facebook features, and led a fast-paced shipping cycle with mentoring.

Lead iOS Engineer at Useful Systems, Inc.

Created a new Swift-based application; developed a promise-based REST client library; built a Swift code generator in Ruby to produce native wire data classes; implemented location services and mapping.

Senior iOS Developer at Spies and Assassins

Updated an iOS photo application with photo editing, Auto Layout, and animations; delivered under tight deadlines; focused on UI polish and performance.

Lead iOS Developer at PCS Ferguson

Architected and developed an oil well control iOS app; implemented Storyboards, custom UICollectionViews, Core Bluetooth, TCP, and Modbus; mentored teammates.

Lead iOS Developer at Raindynamics

Architected Android and iPad applications for real-time weather data and avionics; built real-time flight displays with custom Core Graphics and Java backend control server.

Senior iOS Developer at MWH Global

iOS/iPad app development; peer discovery with Bonjour; custom collection views; mentored developers.

Senior Mobile Engineer at RTP, Active Network

UI development for iOS apps; mapping, AR, JSON/XML parsing; push notifications; mentored peers; won InformationWeek IT award for LivePass app.

Senior iOS Developer at Apple

Cocoa and Cocoa Touch design and development; macOS client-server retail product displays for in-store applications.

Lead Software Engineer at eBay

Lead developer for high-throughput classification engine; data mining and SQLite-backed storage; mentored developers.

Senior MacOS Developer at Microsoft

Architected and led the Document Connection for Mac; Cocoa-based product shipped with Microsoft Office service pack.

Senior MacOS Developer at Apple, Inc.

Objective-C Cocoa development for Tiger/Leopard; internal Leopard-only tool development from requirement to release.

Senior MacOS Developer at LeapFrog

QT architecture and development; implemented an Operation-Queue framework for QT; multithreading and GUI work.

Senior MacOS Developer at SoundFlavour

Objective-C Cocoa development; re-architected application for threading, Core Data, animation improvements; led architecture and project management.

AI-assisted Coding Specialist at AI-assisted Coding NonEvent Systems

AI-assisted coding of games and business applications. Utilizing Cursor, Lovable, Replit, Windsurf, and other tools. Focus on iOS (Swift/SwiftUI), Kotlin/Jetpack Compose, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Python, FastAPI, and SQLModel.

Software Engineer at Self-Directed Personal Project

Developed a distributed computing system and multi-platform SDK. Built with Swift, macOS, iOS, SwiftUI; extensive use of async/await; code generation with SourceKitten and Stencil; Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Vapor; prototyping for Vision Pro, USDZ, mapping, Houdini.

Senior Engineer (Remote) at PEX

Architected and developed a management system for very large clusters of > 1000 machines in Go and FoundationDB. Designed and developed command-line tools to manage the system. Architected fast-start system. GRPC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure.

Senior Mobile Engineer at RTP (Active Network)

UI design and development of iOS apps; web services, mapping/GPS, augmented reality, JSON/XML, push notifications; location services and real-time sensor integration; mentoring.

Senior Software Engineer at Fabric7 Systems

Next-generation management GUI; low-cost platform/enterprise management system; UI design and Flex; evaluated Spring; re-architected for performance.

Senior Software Engineer at PayByTouch

Specification and development of Python/Jython framework for automating installation and configuration of WebSphere components; system-level scripting.

Senior Software Engineer at LookSmart

Ruby on Rails development.

Senior Software Engineer at KAVAM

Design and development of multi-threaded high-performance server systems in C++ on Linux.

Senior Software Engineer at Fabric7 Systems

Design and development of enterprise management systems; architecture, performance-focused; Java/C++ CORBA; Python, Ruby, XML; UI design.

Senior Software Engineer at Applied Biosystems

Specification and architecture of biotechnology applications; Java/Swing and Win32 C++; XML schema; Python; JUnit.

Senior Software Engineer at SRI International

OOAD/UML, development of wireless systems in Java and Linux/C/C++. High-reliability networking protocols; embedded RT networking; Java/Swing; XML; mapping; UI design.

Senior Software Engineer at Kiracom

Co-architected Oracle/Java-based large-scale web email system. JavaMail, ERwin data modeling, performance tuning; Oracle.

Senior Software Engineer at Organic

eCommerce application development in ATG Dynamo, Java, PL/SQL; architecture and data modeling; Blowfish encryption; performance tuning.

Senior Software Engineer at SRI International

UML-based architecture and development of Tactical Logistics Information System; security layer; Java, Oracle, CORBA; mentoring.