My Skills – Jake Derouin

Software Development

Apple Development (iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, macOS): 6 PLUS YEARS EXPERIENCE

Creating, marketing, and distributing mobile apps for all of Apple’s platforms
Proficient in Swift
SwiftUI: A modern declarative layout framework.
UIKit: The older imperative UI Framework.
UserDefaults/CoreData: Data Storage Tools
CreateML/CoreML: Machine Learning tools
SpriteKit: A 2D game engine and framework.
AVFoundation: A framework for interacting with audio and camera capabilities of Apple devices.
HealthKit: A framework for working with Health data and recording workouts.
URLSession: Tools for fetching data from the internet.
Core Bluetooth: A framework for connecting to Bluetooth and Bluetooth LE devices.

Web Development:

Node.js backends: I can create Node.js REST apis for creating application backends and serving complex websites over the web.
HTML/CSS/JS: I can create frontend applications for users to interact with on a web browser.
Nginx: I can configure websites, backends and WordPress instances for self-hosting while maintaining security and enforcing HTTPS. (This site is hosted at my house).
Authentication: I can design websites that utilize JWT authentication schemes and are resistant against common web attacks.

Android Development:

I have basic experience with using Kotlin as well as Android Studio for developing apps.

Design:

Privacy Technologies:

I can help individuals determine their threat models and tools to help them achieve their goals.
I can explain how Tor works as well as VPN’s and walk someone through setting up a service over Tor.

Security:

Apple System Security Design: I am very familiar with how Apple protects customer data on device and can identify security shortcomings that have been missed by Apple engineers.
I use encryption in my production products for safeguarding data.