Ankur Patel

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. He is also the author of the book "Learning

Swift - Building an iOS Game", which teaches the readers how to build an iOS game and

publish it to the App Store.

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 also likes to tinker around with Raspberry Pi to automate things in his life. His passion for building things has led him to help out Maplewood Township in New Jersey by volunteering to build cheap low powered heat measuring devices for the public schools. These devices help the public schools monitor temperature in real time and view historical data so that they can be more energy efficient and reduce their carbon footprint. He has been invited by Sustainable Jersey, a non profit organization, to speak at several events including their annual summit to demonstrate success story of community members helping out their township to be more sustainable. He has also been invited to the League of Municipality so that other townships can follow a similar model to be more sustainable with the use of technology.