Alex Blokker
Lead Mobile Engineer at Ridecell
San Francisco, California, Thailand
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Top SchoolAlex Blokker is a Lead Mobile Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building and shipping iOS applications across startups and large e-commerce teams. A Harvard-trained technologist, he blends deep Objective-C and Swift expertise with UI/UX sensibilities developed while teaching mobile app development and mentoring early-career engineers. His career spans hands-on roles at Wayfair and Ridecell where he progressed from iOS developer to lead, coordinating across product, community, and executive stakeholders to deliver user-focused mobile experiences. Alex is equally comfortable with low-level architecture and the product-side tradeoffs required for social, fast-paced consumer apps, and he has a track record of applying traditional IT rigor to nimble, customer-driven teams. Notably, his background includes leading mobile engineering at startups and teaching a university course on modern iOS tooling, highlighting both leadership and pedagogy.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Harvard University
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Github Skills (16)
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swift8
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objective-c6
facebook-graph-api6
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cocoa-touch6
macos6
youtube6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ablokker/brickkit-ios
Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
macosswiftios
ablokker/LiquidFloatingActionButton
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Material Design Floating Action Button in liquid state
Contributions:6 releases, 9 pushes, 7 tags in 3 months
floatingmaterialliquidandroidbutton
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