CS & iOS Projects | Zach Burke

MyNM iOS App

As an iOS Developer on the Northwestern Medicine mobile team, I help build and maintain the MyNM patient app used by thousands of patients to manage their healthcare experience. My work focuses on building scalable architecture, delivering patient-focused features, and improving accessibility across the platform.

MyNM 2.0 Platform Upgrade: Played a key role in delivering the MyNM 2.0 release on an accelerated 4.5-month timeline. Built reusable UI components such as tappable rows, bottom drawer menus, and styling utilities to improve development efficiency and reduce redundant UI elements.
Feature Ownership: Designed and implemented major user-facing features including the Favorites system (Doctors, Locations, and Clinical Trials), as well as the insurance filtering system used across provider search experiences.
HealthBeat Integration: Led development of the HealthBeat content integration, collaborating with the NM.org web team to seamlessly embed dynamic web content within the native app experience.
Accessibility Improvements: Implemented large-scale accessibility enhancements across MyNM 2.0, standardizing accessibility labels and supporting both English and Spanish VoiceOver navigation to ensure the app is usable by visually impaired patients.
Design System Improvements: Standardized the app's UI using a unified five-color palette and reusable styling utilities, simplifying future design updates and improving consistency across the product.
Modern iOS Development: Contributed to adoption of modern iOS practices including Swift Concurrency, SwiftUI components, and improved architecture patterns to support long-term maintainability.
Release Management: Coordinated release preparation and deployment for MyNM 2.1 using Azure Pipelines and App Store Connect, ensuring a smooth and reliable production release.

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KINGSHIFT

STUDIOS

KingShift Studios — Game Development

My personal game studio focused on turbocharged browser-based board games. Built with React, TypeScript, and a custom game engine, featuring 40 unique mid-match upgrades, AI bot opponents (minimax with alpha-beta pruning running in Web Workers), and real-time online multiplayer via Supabase.

Checkers Turbo: Full checkers with an upgrade system — players earn powers mid-match that change movement rules, add piece abilities, and shift board dynamics.
Chess Turbo: Full standard chess with 40 upgrades including extra moves, piece clones, and board-disrupting effects.
Bot AI: Multi-depth minimax with alpha-beta pruning and upgrade-aware heuristics, executed off the main thread via Web Workers.
Multiplayer + Leaderboard: Real-time game lobbies, an Elo-based rating system, and live leaderboards powered by Supabase.

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Early iOS Projects

OCP (Organized College Planner)

Swift app helping high school students manage the college application process. Winner of the 2016 Congressional App Challenge (IL-09).

2016 Winners Submission Video

Swan Stoplights

Internal Swift app built at SWAN Analytical USA to guide sales representatives through a step-by-step product recommendation system for water treatment equipment.