Douglas Hewitt

Swift engineer, educator & entrepreneur focused on SwiftUI & visionOS; passionate about the intersection of design, technology & education.

Projects

Manuscript Bible with fast and accurate search powered by LLMs.

Contemplate Daily devotions to form healthy spiritual habits. Made while at Cherith Analytics.

Nera Scrapbook A social media app with digital scrapbooking features. In collaboration with Skydea design agency.

Full Jacket Share vinyl records with high quality AR models. In collaboration with Joshua Elkin while we were at USC.

M Bench Aggregate benchmarks for apple products to determine when you should upgrade.

Hello

Welcome! Since you’ve made it this far, why don’t you get to know me.

Engineer

I first learned iOS development with Objective-C and Swift in 2015. After 4 years as an iOS engineer working at companies such as BMW and Apple, I explored tangental passions of design, entrepreneurship, and education while completing two graduate programs and later teaching.

The potential of LLMs, declarative UI frameworks such as SwiftUI and mixed reality such as visionOS compelled me to dive back into engineering, where I focus on clean code and modern Swift frameworks such as Swift Concurrency and Swift Data as well as best practices such as the MV architecture, thereby simplifying code and producing better products.

I find Apple’s developer ecosystem just as delightful as their consumer products. Of course with anything there is room for improvement, but what I appreciate the most about Apple is how their focus on the intersection of the humanities (liberal arts) and technology apply even to their developer tools.

One might say that I’m fluent in Swift and SwiftUI, conversational with Javascript and Svelte, and inspired by human centered design.

Educator

I have had the privilege of teaching what I’ve learned to a variety of students. I teach both the programming language Swift and the spoken language English to students in Japan. I taught Swift at the University level, and English at the high school level. I am in the process of expanding my teaching material online.

Entrepreneur & Designer

For about 3 years, I left the world of software engineering behind to pursue a career in UX and Product Design. I learned the skills, gained a masters degree, and freelanced for a bit.

Ultimately I found my passion for startups bring me back to engineering and product management. I didn’t want to only produce concepts or even robust research documents, I wanted to build products. Ultimately I have a much better appreciation for design and apply UX methodology to all that I do. I look forward to a world where the silos of engineering and design break down to a more multi-disciplinary, inter-connected space.

Startups and Students

My passion is to utilize my skills to improve the lives of others. I think some of the biggest problems the world faces today are wealth inequality and climate change. As it turns out, education is one of the most important steps to solving both of these, so this is why I don’t just code, I also teach.