Ankur Patel is a web and mobile application developer specializing in iOS with a passion for making innovative consumer applications. Ankur is a generalist who has worked with a variety of programming languages, such as Objective-C, Ruby, Javascript, Swift, Java, and C. He has held multiple roles in firms both big and small, including IBM, Oracle, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Shutterstock, and MyTime. Ankur is working as independent contractor and does iOS, Ruby on Rails and Front-end Responsive Web Development: https://www.encoredevlabs.com/hire-me

In his free time he is contributing to open source and an author of a popular open source Swift library called Dollar which is a functional tool-belt for Swift developers. He has also written several blog posts for IBM and written a developer journey on how to use IBM’s Watson cloud services to build interesting and AI driven apps/services.

He is also an author of two books. One called Learning Swift - Building an iOS Game which teaches the readers on how to build an iOS game and publish it to the App Store. Several Swift concepts are covered in the game building process helping reader learn about Apple’s new programming language.

The other is called Hands-on Full-Stack Development with Swift which covers several topics from building native iOS and tvOS applications to building full stack server for these applications, all using Swift. Purchase a paperback copy or eBook from Amazon, Barnes and Noble or other online retailers.

Portfolio Website: https://www.encoredevlabs.com