Alex Hartwell
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Lyft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Hartwell is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building and scaling mobile-first, consumer-facing products. At Lyft he has driven platform-level improvements—leading Server Driven UI, unifying white‑label bike-share apps, and building tooling that enabled realistic staging traffic and improved developer productivity across mobile and server teams. He excels at bridging product, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams, owning platform roadmaps while mentoring engineers and running architecture reviews. Trained originally as an illustrator, he brings a design-minded approach to developer UX and mobile architecture, habitually turning complex re‑architecture needs into practical, team-adopted solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Illustration, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Illustration at Pratt Institute
English
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Github Skills (67)
notification9
swift8
hero8
layout8
libyaml7
ios7
ios-animation7
uiimagepickercontroller6
sailfishos6
geojson6
infura6
null-safety6
mapbox-gl6
api6
recording6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swarmnyc/Permission
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
A unified API to ask for permissions on iOS
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
apisecuritypermissionsiosunified-api
swarmnyc/PersistentSwift
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 2 months
swiftioscache
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