Ryan Ashton

Full-stack iOS Developer & Co-founder

I build native iOS products specializing in Swift, SwiftUI, and custom UI/UX — from pixel-perfect interfaces to the backends and infrastructure behind them — guided by test-driven development.

Technical Capabilities

Mobile

SwiftSwiftUIUIKitCombineCore DataMapKit / MapboxMVVMTDD

Backend & Cloud

Swift VaporKubernetesDockerUbuntu ServerSupabasePostgreSQLFirebaseREST APIs

AI & ML

YOLOv8NLP TranscriptionOllamaMLXGoogle GeminiPrompt Engineering

Languages & Tools

SwiftPythonSQLShellGitCI/CDFigmaClaude Code

Projects

Jul 2025 – Present

1 yr 3 mos

WakeKeeper — Live Sailing & Fleet Navigation iOS App

Co-founded and architected a live sailing navigation, voyage tracking, and vessel management app with custom SwiftUI architecture and Supabase backend.

App Store ↗Website ↗

Jun 2023 – Present

3 yrs 4 mos

Well Spotted — Safari Wildlife Tracking iOS App

Designed, built, and deployed a native safari wildlife-tracking app using MVVM, custom high-frame-rate UIKit interfaces, and a Vapor/Gemini AI admin backend.

App Store ↗Website ↗

Jul 2026 – Present

3 mos

Salai — AI-Assisted Video Editing CLI Engine

Created a frame-accurate Python CLI tool automating video post-production by bridging computer vision (YOLOv8) and LLM-driven timeline generation.

Aug 2026 – Present

2 mos

Bare-Metal Kubernetes Cluster & Private AI Cloud Platform

Architected and deployed a highly available 4-node Ubuntu Kubernetes cluster to host private cloud infrastructure and autonomous offline AI services.