Alek Slater
App Lead Staff Engineer at Davincium
Rogaland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolAlek Slater is an App Lead Staff Engineer with 14 years of mobile-first engineering experience, currently leading app development at Easee from Rogaland, Norway. He combines deep iOS and Android expertise with Flutter and rapid prototyping skills, and has a history of shipping production apps as a co-founder and contractor across multiple startups and white-label projects. His open-source contributions show pragmatic attention to UX and platform integration—improving iOS image selection flows and hardening Dropbox file-provider logic, including timezone and API edge cases. Alek blends backend API and Python tooling knowledge with hands-on mobile UI theming and authorization handling, making him effective across the full mobile stack. Trained in biomedical engineering and computer vision at Imperial College and ETH Zurich, he brings analytical rigor and a systems mindset to product-focused engineering. Colleagues rely on him for solving tricky integration bugs and turning prototypes into maintainable, production-ready apps.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computer Vision, MEng, Computer Vision at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMaster of Engineering - MEng, Biomedical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London
English, Norwegian, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
image-picker10
swift10
file-management10
ios10
dropbox-api10
api10
fileprovider10
apidoc10
ui-design9
webdav3
ftp3
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
amosavian/FileProvider
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
FileManager replacement for Local, iCloud and Remote (WebDAV/FTP/Dropbox/OneDrive) files -- Swift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 11 PRs, 24 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alek primarily contributed to the `DropboxFileProvider.swift` and `FileProvider.swift` files, indicating a focus on file management logic within the Dropbox API integration. Their commits addressed issues related to file uploading, copying, and overwriting, including bug fixes regarding timezones. The user also worked on API request construction and utilized the `Dropbox-API-Arg` header for communication with Dropbox.
dropboxfile-managerftpicloudonedrive
mikaoj/BSImagePicker
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
A multiple image picker for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alek primarily focused on enhancing the iOS image picker functionality. They added theming options for various UI elements, including colors and fonts for titles and album views. Furthermore, they implemented a setting to unselect selections when reaching the maximum limit, and improved the handling of authorization status.
image-pickeriosswiftbsimagepickerphotos
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