Alex Akers
Senior IOS Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Akers is a Senior iOS Engineer based in San Jose with over three decades of experience building mobile and embedded software across startups and major tech companies. He has shipped platform features at Apple, led mobile efforts at Twitter and Microsoft, and was an early core contributor to React Native—authoring native iOS module registration and PickerIOS support. Equally comfortable in low-level C/embedded work and high-level Swift/Objective-C, his open-source contributions include dynamic Objective-C block utilities (BlocksKit) and firmware-level fixes for IoT projects like a Casio F-91W replacement. He runs Pandamonia as a creative outlet for consumer iOS/macOS apps, demonstrating a long-running entrepreneurial streak alongside enterprise engineering. Known for solving tricky integration and animation issues, he combines product-minded craftsmanship with a history of shipping reliable, user-facing systems at scale.
32 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (40)
interface-builder10
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
hardware-interface10
app-framework10
c1110
c1710
storyboard10
sys10
interfacing10
xml-parsing10
card10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
BlocksKit/BlocksKit
Nov 2011 - Nov 2013
The Objective-C block utilities you always wish you had.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:218 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions center around the development of Objective-C block utilities. The commits demonstrate the implementation of a dynamic delegate system for Objective-C, allowing for associating blocks with delegate methods at runtime. The user added functionality to implement, remove, and retrieve block implementations for methods and class methods, and they also added dynamic property support.
objective-cwishcocoapods
alexaubry/BulletinBoard
May 2018 - Mar 2019
General-purpose contextual cards for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to improving the functionality and stability of the iOS application. Their work focused on fixing layout issues, specifically addressing animation inconsistencies and visual glitches related to card transitions. They upgraded the framework and example code to Swift 4.2, including updates to build-related files and the Podspec. Furthermore, the user fixed issues related to dismissal behavior after user interaction.
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