Alex Grimes
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Grimes is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building polished iOS apps and developer-facing libraries. He currently develops at Apple after a string of impactful roles at Wayfair where he led performance optimizations, dependency-injection refactors, and the team’s first automated UI test suite. Alex combines front-end product sensibility—shipping delightful features like animated Add-to-Cart experiences—with backend thinking, having reduced page loads and improved caching across high-traffic flows. He favors pragmatic engineering that reduces tech debt and speeds delivery, demonstrated by coordinated deprecation efforts and test/DI improvements. Outside of code he channels the same focus into backpacking and experimenting with new cuisines, a detail that reflects his appetite for exploratory problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (11)
date-parser9
parser8
parsing8
datetime7
medical6
optimization5
inventory-management5
rust5
inventory-management-system5
management4
llvm2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexkgrimes/alexkgrimes.github.io
Sep 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:66 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
alexkgrimes/RRCInspector
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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