Jeff Hodsdon

• Coding agents guess at runtime behaviour from source. Basset gives them the readings — CPU, memory, frame pacing, network, view hierarchy — from the device that has the bug.
• Native Mac app that attaches to a live iOS app over simulator or cable, turns on 63 Instruments, and puts a coding agent in the window with everything it reads.
• Ship the open-source SDK, then ask any device running your app to turn on instruments for the next few minutes. Readings stream back over QUIC as a capture the agent reads.
• No account. Nothing leaves your Mac. brew install --cask basset-org/tap/basset-mac

Spatial social network founded by Shawn Fanning (Napster) and Andrew Frame (Citizen).

• Converted a shipping Xcode codebase to Bazel with modularization and BuildBuddy remote caching. Main target 90s → 30s. App kept shipping weekly throughout.
• Isolated feature modules build in 3 seconds — teams develop out-of-band of the main app.
• Built a highly scalable chat UI on UICollectionView with performant dynamic message layout.
• Metal orb effect — bloom, halation, drifting chromatic facets — with 30+ live on screen in a collection view at a steady 60fps. Profiled and optimized, not a one-off animation.

• Image-aesthetic filter pipelines running at 60fps in the live preview; film-grain engine underneath — per-pixel luminance diffing in Metal compute shaders, a 257-entry film LUT for midtone-accurate grain, 64³ color-cube emulations.
• Newswire: autonomous Claude reporter agents gather, dedupe, and beat-classify coverage via MCP tools, surfaced in a SwiftUI + structured-concurrency app over HTTP/3 + MessagePack.
• One Bazel-modularized Swift codebase across all of them.

• Led the ground-up build of the altadaily.com app.
• On-device reverse CLIP model at 5 inferences/second for real-time clothing detection in the camera.
• Modularized, greenfield Bazel build with rules_xcodeproj.

• Led the creation of unique camera-styled aesthetics.
• Implemented the flow from Capture One color-grading data to CIFilter.
• Prototyped sound manipulation of the main menu button.

• Reduced binary size by 9% to avoid Apple’s 200MB+ cellular download warning — directly improving download conversion.
• Implemented server-driven UI for the main home tab and a new tab bar design.
• Led the iOS 15 adoption initiative and educated the design team on new UI features.

• Approached by partners at Lightspeed Ventures to turn a verbal idea into a fully launched iOS product.
• Executed the full product build lifecycle via prototyping and design iteration; native stack, small footprint, efficient network performance.
• Built a production agentic platform on Claude — multi-agent pipeline (analyst → trade generator → risk assessor) with structured outputs and backtested prompt evolution.

Starting in 2016, identified a white space in the fashion world linking innovation in human portraiture. Combining fashion, art, and iOS technology — engineered a camera to take moving imagery. Intimate portraits from street to Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Oscar de la Renta, and Naomi Campbell.

• Hired to rebuild the main Namecheap iOS app on modern, native architecture — a consumer product for millions of customers.
• Reported directly to the Chief of Product to streamline a product-driven development lifecycle.
• Managed the corresponding Android build to keep continuity between platforms.
• Reduced purchasing a domain to one tap via Apple Pay.
• Built the FastVPN macOS menu bar app — one-click connect from the status bar, favorites, streaming and best-available server modes, auto-reconnect on network change. Shipped Nov 2018.

• With founding members of Digg, launched a mobile incubator and built the iOS app Oink — 100K downloads in three weeks.
• Team acquired by Google (2012).

• Joined Digg at the beginning of Web 2.0; promoted to lead the rebuild of the public API.
• On the OAuth working group.
• Partnered with Facebook to build Facebook Connect for launch at f8.