Swift Academy The Podcast

Swift Concurrency introduced powerful concepts like actors, isolation, Sendable types, and structured concurrency, but it also raised many questions for developers migrating existing codebases.

In this episode of Swift Academy, I’m joined by Matt Massicotte, a long-time Apple platforms developer and one of the most respected voices exploring the boundaries of Swift Concurrency.

In this episode of the Swift Academy Podcast, we explore the real meaning of Staff Engineering in mobile teams.

What does a Staff iOS Engineer actually do?

How is it different from a Tech Lead?

Is it just “Senior++” — or something fundamentally different?

Together, we unpack the ambiguity, the expectations, the real impact, and the leadership challenges behind the Staff role in iOS teams.

In this episode of Swift Academy Season 2, Walid sits down with Joannis Orlandos — member of the Swift.org Android Work Group and CTO, to discuss one of the most exciting announcements in the Swift ecosystem:

The release of the new Swift Android SDK.

In this episode, I had the great pleasure of talking with Natalia Panferova, a world-renowned iOS and macOS developer, former member of Apple’s SwiftUI team, and co-founder of Nil Coalescing alongside Matthaus Woolard.

We explored what’s new in iOS 26, including the stunning Liquid Glass Material Design, and took a deep dive into accessibility — a topic Natalia is particularly passionate about.

In this episode, I sit down with Tim Condon, member of the Vapor core team and part of Apple’s Server-Side Swift Group, to discuss the latest advancements in Vapor and how Backend for Frontend (BFF) is shaping modern Swift backends.

In this special episode, we step outside the Apple and iOS world to dive into the fascinating universe of open source with an exceptional guest: Mahmoud Ben Hassine, Principal Engineer at VMware and lead of Spring Batch.

Since joining in 2018, Mahmoud has been a driving force behind the evolution of Spring Batch, after creating his own open source project, Easy Batch (GitHub), which paved the way for his journey at VMware.

In this episode, I sit down with Pedro Piñera and Marek Fořt, the brilliant minds behind Tuist, a powerful open-source tool that’s redefining how Swift developers manage and scale Xcode projects. We talk about their journey, the pain points that inspired Tuist, and the technical innovations that make it a top choice for modular, scalable iOS architectures.

In this episode, I sit down with Michael Long, seasoned Swift developer and creator of Resolver, Factory DI Container for Apple to dive deep into dependency injection and how to build robust Swift applications

In this insightful episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with Chris Eidhof and Florian Kugler, the brilliant developers behind objc.io. Together, we explored the world of animations in SwiftUI, emphasizing the importance of understanding how SwiftUI creates and manages views and animations.

في الحلقة هاذي، استضفنا عبد الرؤوف الغريسي و مهدي الشيخ روحو، اثنين من الشباب التونسيين المتميزين في مجالاتهم. عبدرؤوف بدأ مسيرته في INSAT، أما مهدي فهو خريج المدرسة الوطنية للمهندسين بصفاقس، قبل ما يكمل تعليمه في ENSTA Paris. واليوم يخدمو مع بعض في Odoo.