Alex Azarov
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlex Azarov is a senior iOS engineer with over a decade of professional experience and 7+ years focused on building high-impact, user-centric mobile apps using Swift, SwiftUI, and modern architectures. He has shipped consumer-facing products at scale—driving features and platform migrations for Waymo’s Waymo One app (maintaining a 5.0 App Store rating and over 100k reviews) and leading the iOS Navigation SDK at Mapbox, including the MapGPT conversational navigation feature. Alex is experienced across the full mobile stack, from backend integrations and gRPC to CI/build systems like Bazel and Swift Package Manager, and has a track record of introducing integration tests that bridge app and microservice boundaries. He’s contributed to well-known open-source navigation tooling (mapbox/mapbox-navigation-ios), fixing UI and core navigation issues and adding integration tests. Comfortable in both product and SDK contexts, he also brings cross-platform insight from work on KMM and ad-serving SDKs at Yandex. Based in Old Toronto, he blends hands-on engineering with architecture-level thinking and a knack for migrating legacy codebases to modern Swift.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software for Information Technologies (КСиС ПОИТ), Bachelor's degree Software for Information Technologies (КСиС ПОИТ) at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, French, Russian
Github Skills (6)
swift10
ios10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
swift-package-manager7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox-navigation-ios
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Turn-by-turn navigation logic and UI in Swift on iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 315 reviews, 150 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of the iOS navigation SDK, addressing issues related to the user interface and core navigation logic. Their work involved fixing bugs, such as issues with automatic day/night switching and the feedback UI. The user also focused on improving the codebase by refactoring and renaming classes. Furthermore, they implemented an integration test for the Swift Package Manager.
swift-package-manageramazon-pollypollymap-matchingguidance
azarovalex/az-inc.
Jul 2012 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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