Bas Thomas Broek

bas@basbroek.nl iosdev.space/@bas github.com/BasThomas https://www.linkedin.com/in/bas-broek-131a14320/ basbroek.nl

Apple developer with a passion for platform work and accessibility.

Work experience

Apple

January 2025 — current (iOS & macOS accessibility engineer)

WeTransfer

September 2022 – September 2024 (senior iOS developer)

November 2021 – August 2022 (iOS developer)

Working on the Collect & Transfer iOS and macOS apps, working on features like subscriptions. Championing accessibility on Android, iOS, macOS and web, providing guidance and training. Implemented support for screen readers, voice and keyboard input, and more.

Apple

November 2020 – September 2021 (macOS Accessibility)

Working on VoiceOver for macOS and Catalyst; VoiceOver Utility; app accessibility.

XING

October 2018 – October 2020 (XING Technology Advisory Board)

The XING Technology Advisory Board helps leadership make strategic technology decisions so that XING can foresee technological trends, develop products sustainably, and build employer brand.

September 2018 – October 2020 (iOS Platform Team — iOS developer)

As a member of the iOS Platform team my focus is to make product engineers more effective. This includes supporting and socializing good standards across the organization, often through code review, such as good API design. I have also been working on the XING design system, building in accessibility from the beginning.

August 2017 – September 2018 (Mobile Releases Team — iOS developer)

Founding member of the mobile release team, working on iOS, Android tooling, release management and continuous integration infrastructure. This work supported a bi-weekly release train on both platforms. We automated much of the release process, improving developer efficiency and release stability.

Internships

  • NU.nl, February 2017 – June 2017
  • Bringme, July 2016 – October 2016
  • iCulture, September 2015 – August 2016
  • Apostle, December 2014 – July 2015

Education

Fontys University of Applied Sciences

September 2013 – July 2017

Bachelor Computer Science.

Projects

Swift for Good co-author

Swift for Good is a book written by 20 top authors and speakers, with 100% of all revenue going to charity. I contributed a chapter on accessibility.

raywenderlich.com Tech Editor, June 2019 – July 2020

Technical editing of iOS articles for RayWenderlich.

Swift Weekly Brief, January 2018 – November 2020

Bringing you an overview of what’s been happening in open source Swift every other Thursday. I was a long term contributor, and took over curation of the newsletter in January 2018.

Open Source Software

I ❤️ OSS. Some projects I have been involved in:

GitHawk

Now superseded by GitHub’s own app, GitHawk was an iOS app that made managing GitHub accounts and projects easier. I worked on improving accessibility, writing blog posts and developing new features.

Moya

Moya is a network abstraction layer written in Swift. I contributed to this project by improving their documentation, migration from Swift 2 to 3, as well as providing technical support for developers.

Talks

  • Building an Accessibility Culture, One Step at a Time @ Swift Connection 2024, France
  • (Apple) Accessibility at WeTransfer @ Apple Academy Naples, 2023, Italy
  • Building XING’s Technology Advisory Board through GitHub @ GitHub Enterprise Roadshow Munich 2020, Germany
  • So You’re Writing a Framework… @ DO iOS 2018, the Netherlands

More at https://basbroek.nl/speaking/