About
Hi! I’m Hesham, a software engineer based in Cairo, Egypt. I occasionally write about software development on this blog, and sometimes other random topics too.
I’m currently squashing bugs at Instabug and helping people learn Swift and iOS development at Swift Mentor. I’ve also co-authored the Become an iOS Developer with Swift course at CareerFoundry.
I started writing code when I was 12 years old. My first lines of code were in Visual Basic 6 and I immediately got fascinated by the ability to create something useful from code I’ve typed into a computer. My interest in software development kept growing until it eventually turned into a career.
TracKit
I released the first version of my app, TracKit, in 2013, and have been working since then on developing and growing it. TracKit started as a very basic numbers tracker for my personal use but has grown into a much more versatile daily tracker used by tens of thousands of users.
Swift Mentor
Over the past few years, I’ve been helping people learn Swift and iOS development at CareerFoundry. More recently, I decided to start Swift Mentor and do that independently.
HMSegmentedControl
HMSegmentedControl is an open-source, highly customizable drop-in replacement for UISegmentedControl. It originally started in 2012 as a project to get myself more familiar with CocoaPods and the process of publishing a pod, then quickly grow to be used by more than 22,000 apps, including TikTok, PayPal, Imgur and Bleacher Report.