Lucas Derraugh is an iOS engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building at Substack from New Boston, NH. He pairs deep platform experience across iOS and macOS (Photos + Camera at Apple, Level Home, Owlet, Spatial) with full-stack open-source work—contributing UI and back-end improvements to GitUp, including GitHub Desktop and DiffMerge integrations. A prolific educator and communicator, he’s published over 180 programming tutorials on YouTube with 20k+ subscribers, and his independently shipped “Disk App” reached #1 on the Mac App Store. A Cornell CS graduate and former VP of iOS Development at Cornell App Development, he brings product instincts, mentoring experience, and a knack for turning developer tooling and consumer features into polished releases.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:21 releases, 62 reviews, 69 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Lucas contributed to various aspects of the GitUp application, including UI enhancements, back-end functionality, and build process improvements. They implemented support for the GitHub Desktop button, added DiffMerge tool integration, and addressed Xcode 11 warnings. Furthermore, they fixed bugs related to file discarding during commit rewrites and improved search functionality. The user also worked on updating build scripts and project setup.
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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