Felix Lapalme
IOS Lead at Transit
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFelix Lapalme is an iOS Lead based in Montreal with 11 years of experience designing and shipping mobile experiences at Transit. He joined Transit as an iOS developer in 2017 and was promoted to lead in 2021, blending hands‑on Swift/Objective‑C work with team and product leadership. An active open‑source contributor to popular UI libraries like SVProgressHUD and SVPulsingAnnotationView, he specializes in animation, accessibility tweaks, and rendering optimizations (e.g., layer rasterization) to improve polish and performance. Trained in computer engineering at Université de Sherbrooke, he brings a pragmatic, UI‑first engineering approach that balances visual detail with scalable code.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke
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Github contributions (5)
TransitApp/SVPulsingAnnotationView
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
A customizable MKUserLocationView replica for your iOS app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Felix focused on improving the performance and visual appearance of the `SVPulsingAnnotationView` component. They optimized the rendering process by rasterizing specific layers and also addressed UI issues related to dynamic color changes by rebuilding layers. Further contributions involved correcting image centering within the view's frame and also the related heading image centering.
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SVProgressHUD/SVProgressHUD
May 2017 - Nov 2020
A clean and lightweight progress HUD for your iOS and tvOS app.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the SVProgressHUD iOS library by fixing bugs, reverting changes, and making updates to the UI components of the HUD. They addressed issues related to accessibility notifications and the appearance of the indefinite animation. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the shrinking animation and other visual aspects of the HUD, likely to improve its usability and visual appeal. Their work involved modifying existing code, specifically within the SVProgressHUD and SVIndefiniteAnimatedView files.
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