A Montreal designer built Transit around a question people ask at the curb. Fourteen years later, Sam Vermette is still working on the answer - and on the city that surrounds it.
He joined as an iOS developer and helped build a company around stories. At HOLYWATER TECH, Anatolii Kasianov’s route to co-CEO runs through a changed brief, a million-dollar app sale, and the machinery behind vertical drama.

He met two founders at a Munich hackathon and started coding their broker app the next day. A decade later, Marco Cancellieri’s quiet obsession with mobile design sits inside a bank used by 10 million Europeans.
Kilo Loco is the alias of Kyle Lee, a self-taught iOS engineer, instructor, and content creator who turned a string of dead-end jobs into a nine-year career building production mobile apps. After teaching himself Swift to build apps for his own family, he became a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS Amplify, reached tens of thousands of developers through YouTube tutorials and courses, and now leads iOS work on accessibility testing tools at Deque Systems while tinkering at the edge of AI and developer tooling.

Mark Moeykens is the creator behind Big Mountain Studio, the go-to source for SwiftUI visual learning. A Vermont-born, Salt Lake City-based iOS developer by day and prolific author by night, he pioneered the 'picture book' approach to programming education - combining code examples with visual diagrams so developers remember concepts up to 60,000 times faster. His library of SwiftUI Mastery books has reached 30,000+ developers across 140+ countries, and his free SwiftUI guide alone has been downloaded over 30,000 times.