Vadim Drobinin

Senior iOS engineer & consultant. 15+ years shipping apps for medical, fintech, and consumer. SwiftUI, TCA, on-device ML, HIPAA. Apps acquired by Twitter, featured by Apple, CES & Webby honours.

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My phone replaced a brass plug

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Porting a 2012 OpenCV paper to YOLOv8 and CoreML on iOS to score rifle shooting targets from a photo - replacing the brass-plug scoring gauge with on-device computer vision.