Daniel Okafor

Daniel is a former Spotify iOS engineer (2019-2024) who worked on the Now Playing surface and the in-app podcast player. He shipped the SwiftUI rewrite of the lyrics view to over 600 million users and contributed several fixes upstream to swift-collections. His writing tends toward the unglamorous corners of iOS work: build-time regressions in Xcode 16, why SwiftData still isn't ready for production sync scenarios, and how to instrument a real app with os_signpost without drowning in noise. He spent two years before Spotify at a fintech startup in Berlin building a banking app on top of Solaris API. Daniel now freelances out of Lisbon and maintains a small open-source library for type-safe deep links in SwiftUI. He has 9 years of native iOS experience.