Sam McDonald

(n.) a software developer who loves Cocoa and Web development.

My Work

Hacker News Paper (Summer 2011)

Hacker News Paper is the first iOS app I have released. During its launch Hacker News Paper peaked at 199 in top paid and ranked 5 in the news category in the iPad app store.

UKClassList.com (Fall 2010)

UK Class List was my group's senior design project at UK. We built a search engine for classes at the. The information is currently outdated because the University decided to block our spider. However two of our features have been added to the official course catalog web site.

BabelWith.Me (Summer 2009)

BabelWith.Me is a multi-language chatroom I developed for LifeChurch.tv as a remote contractor. It has been featured on ReadWriteWeb, TheNextWeb.com, and other interesting blogs.

Countdown Maker (Summer 2007)

Countdown Maker is a Mac App I developed with Sam Soffes in my early years of college, and his later years of High School. Countdown Maker was profitable very early on and continues to hit modest sales figures. In late 2009 Countdown Maker was sold to Tasteful Works.

Availability

I am currently happily employed and am not looking for contract work. However, I do keep my resume updated if you are interested.

Social

Feel free to contact me by email at sam@sammcd.com. If you want to follow me on twitter I am @sammcd.