My name is Sam Youtsey. I am a human, friend, brother, son, and programmer. I grew up in Portland, OR and attended Gonzaga University, graduating with a degree in computer science. My professional interests seem to consistently revolve around iOS, Mac, and web programming. I am always striving to learn as much as I can about as many subjects as I can. This is why my laptop's 'code exploration' directory is filled with everything from iOS/Swift to golang, and Asterisk to Arduino.

I have a passion for helping people and companies achieve solutions to their problems. I enjoy every part of the software delivery process and have actively developed skills in client relations and oversight, project management, and of course software engineering. My past experiences as an Eagle Scout, my brief stint as a pedicab company owner/operator, and every day operating my current company have all contributed to my ability to successfully deliver projects.

During my career I have worked with a wide variety of clients, including Disney, Nike, and Seattle City Light. The following is a small collection of projects I can publicly discuss.

Most recently, I've lead the iOS development efforts of a new social communications app. Encouraj is a way to privately share your fears, worries, successes, and wins with only those that you trust. It was created with all leading-edge iOS technologies and features: Swift, CoreData, APN support, and more. Find it on the app store here.

In mid-2014 I led Nebari Software's mobile development effort to create a prototype of an asset management application for use on construction sites. Leveraging our previous large-scale monitoring efforts we created a low-cost and low-maintenance solution using iBeacons and traditional Bluetooth devices. The application was able to connect to TI SensorTags and gather temperature, humidity, and accelerometer data. Affixing these sensors to a piece of hardware (a large industrial fan, for example) I created intelligent algorithms to detect if the piece of machinery was on or off (or in some sort of active state).

During the development of this application I heavily utilized the iBeacon, CoreBluetooth, and CoreLocation frameworks. I discovered holes in Apple's implementation of the iBeacon libraries (see here for a Mac app which reports UUIDs differently than the corresponding iOS app) and enjoyed working with new technologies.

Traffic Timeline began as a utility that I needed personally. When I first moved to Seattle I was living in Queen Anne and working in Redmond, WA. With no feel for the flow of traffic and the best time to leave I created this site to graphically show the flow of traffic. I found it useful so passed it around to a few friends who offered feedback. Eventually, I'd love to build a mobile app which allows for storing of preferred routes, the historical view, and some predictive algorithms for analyzing traffic flow and bringing in accident information, area sports activity, and anything else which has the potential to affect traffic in the Puget Sound region.

The site began both as a need for a visual tool for determining traffic rates around the Puget Sound region and also as an experiment to teach myself Node.js. Though I've spent much time working with Javascript on the client the server-side aspect of Node intrigued me. I knew I had to learn more. So, I set off teaching myself Node and building the site. It's implemented with the Express module and a MySQL database. There's two divisions of labor in the site: firstly we have the WSDOT API polling logic which scrapes all driving route information from the public travel time endpoints and stores it into a local database. Next, there are client-facing APIs which serve the browser requests for which route information is desired.

When WatchKit debuted I spent a few hours playing around and discovering what makes it tick. It is incredibly simple — almost overwhelmingly so — and is easy to get a hold of once the basics are understood. I'm looking forward to being able to build apps that run on the watch itself. Check out the project here.

My technical writing is hosted at samswiches, a collection of various notes, how-tos, and commentary.

A collection of some of my favorite shots. All are images are taken on an iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, or a Nikon D3300. The Nikon is shot with either the kit 18-55mm f/4 lens or, currently, a 35mm f/1.8 lens.