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Patrick Adams

Sr. iOS Engineer

12+ years building high-scale iOS apps used by millions. Founder of the Lion Suite of family safety apps. I use AI tools to ship faster and build more than most teams twice my size.

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12+

Years iOS Experience

500K+

MAU at Backbone

iOS Apps Shipped

★ 4.8

App Store Rating

Experience

Jul 2021 — Dec 2025

Backbone

Sr. iOS Developer

Owned core iOS experiences for a global gaming app serving 500K+ MAU.
Led a controller-first navigation system — focus management, input routing, and accessibility across the entire app.
Built the Backbone Pro Controller customization suite (buttons, triggers, joysticks) with robust state management and persistence.
Shipped Smart Search with OpenAI-powered relevance and built a quest-based onboarding gamification system.

Dec 2015 — Present

Lion Family

Founder / iOS Engineer

Founded and built the Lion Suite — a platform of family safety apps with parental controls, content safety, and accountability tools.
Lion Browser: privacy-first accountability browser with content filtering and explicit-image detection via Amazon Rekognition.
Lion for YouTube: safe YouTube experience where parents approve content kids can watch.
Lion AI: kid-safe AI assistant with conversation monitoring and age-appropriate content safeguards.
Lion Family: unified parent dashboard to monitor activity and manage controls across all Lion apps.

Jan 2020 — Jul 2021

The Knot Worldwide

Sr. iOS Developer

Implemented the transactional shopping experience and launched the revamped Registry tab with updated UI.

Oct 2016 — Jun 2019

SURE

Sr. iOS Developer

Converted the entire project from Objective-C to Swift.
Created the Sure Diagnostics SDK for iPhone insurance eligibility detection.
Grew unit test coverage from 0% to 87% with CircleCI automation.

Aug 2014 — Oct 2016

Tonic Design Co

iOS Developer

Integrated HealthKit into J&J's 7-Minute Workout app (1M+ users).
Built J&J's 7-Minute Wellness for Expecting & New Moms from scratch to launch.
Built CheckYour#'s by Janssen — Tonic's first app written entirely in Swift.

Nov 2013 — Aug 2014

WebLinc

iOS Developer

Created ZomBeacon — a GPS + Bluetooth LE app using geofencing for a real-world zombie experience.

Projects

iOS Apps — Lion Suite

Lion Browser

Privacy-first accountability browser for iOS with built-in content filtering and explicit-image detection powered by Amazon Rekognition. A top-rated alternative to Covenant Eyes.

Swift UIKit Firebase

App Store Site

Lion Family

Unified parent dashboard to monitor activity and manage controls across all Lion apps. Parental controls and safe browsing for teens on iOS.

Swift SwiftUI Firebase

App Store Site

Lion AI

Kid-safe AI assistant with conversation monitoring, usage limits, and age-appropriate content safeguards. Privacy-first design, native iOS interface.

Swift SwiftUI LLM API

App Store Site

Lion for YouTube

Safer YouTube for kids — parents approve content, kids watch within a focused age-appropriate environment. No rabbit holes, no surprises.

Swift UIKit YouTube API

App Store Site

Client Websites

Lion Family

Marketing and landing site for the Lion Suite of family safety apps. Showcases all four apps, drives App Store conversions, and serves as the brand hub for the Lion platform.

Next.js Tailwind CSS TypeScript

Visit Site

Rebuild Arizona

Lead-generation website for a Phoenix-based construction and renovation company. Conversion-focused design with service pages, photo gallery, and contact form.

Next.js Tailwind CSS TypeScript

Visit Site

Desert Discovery Labs

Marketing website for a hands-on science tutoring company in Arizona. Full lab course catalog, tutoring enrollment, and SEO-optimized to drive local student acquisition.

Next.js Tailwind CSS TypeScript SEO

Visit Site

About Me

I'm Patrick Adams, a Senior iOS engineer with 12+ years of experience building consumer-facing apps used by millions. I've shipped production code at companies like Backbone (500K+ MAU gaming app), The Knot Worldwide, and SURE — working across the full Swift stack with deep expertise in UIKit, SwiftUI, RxSwift, GraphQL, and modern mobile architectures.

I'm also the founder of the Lion Suite — a family of iOS apps focused on digital safety, accountability, and parental controls. What started as a personal project has grown into a platform used by thousands of families across the App Store.

I leverage AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code to move faster and build more than most teams twice my size. It's not a crutch — it's a force multiplier that keeps me focused on hard problems and lets me ship polished products on a founder's timeline.

I also take on client web projects, building fast, modern marketing sites with Next.js and Tailwind. I care about clean code, polished UX, and work that actually ships.

The Adams family — Arizona

iOS

Swift
SwiftUI
UIKit
Xcode
TestFlight

Backend

Firebase
GraphQL
Apollo
Node.js

Web

Next.js
TypeScript
React
Tailwind CSS

Tools

Git
Bitrise
Fastlane
Figma

Cursor
Claude Code
ChatGPT
AWS Rekognition