Reid Chathamblog ↗

Hi, I’m Reid

I’m a software engineer with a decade of experience, specializing in iOS and working in Swift, Objective-C and Python. I’ve built apps from the ground up with few constraints and worked on large apps serving tens of millions of users.

Most recently I was at LinkedIn on the Notifications Experience team, building features for a network of more than a billion members.

What I’m working on

These days I’m building Hermes, two apps for talking with someone who doesn’t speak your language.

The Hermes Translate homepage: real-time voice translation powered by on-device AI.

Hermes Translate

An iPhone app I built so two people can talk across a language barrier, with the translation running right on their phones.

hermestranslate.com ↗

The Hermes Link homepage: translated chat with the person in front of you.

Hermes Link

The same idea for front desks and counters: a way for staff to chat with the people in front of them, each in their own language.

hermeslink.app ↗

I also keep a couple of open-source Swift libraries: PeerConnectivity, for networking between nearby devices, and LangTools.swift, for working with LLMs.

Recent writing

More on my blog ↗