Alex Lockwood
Staff Software Android Engineer at Lyft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Lockwood is a Staff Android Engineer with 13 years of experience building polished, animation-forward mobile experiences at Lyft and previously Google. He blends deep Android UI expertise—evident from contributions to Plaid and a personal sample app on animated vector drawables—with front-end and tooling work on popular SVG optimization projects like SVGO and SVGOMG. Based in New York and trained at Carnegie Mellon, he excels at bridging design and engineering, refactoring UI components and improving animation systems to elevate product polish. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful, maintainable UI transitions and for improving developer tooling that touches both mobile and web graphics.
14 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 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer ScienceWilliams College
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debugging10
javascript10
sqlite10
android-resources10
polymorphism10
bit-manipulation10
multithreading10
android-intent10
user-interface10
android-sdk10
android-fragments10
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Github contributions (5)
alexjlockwood/adp-delightful-details
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
This sample app accompanies a blog post I wrote on icon animations
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of an Android application, focusing on implementing animated icons using AnimatedVectorDrawableCompat. They added new activities related to animations and made changes to existing activities to incorporate new animated vector drawables. The user also addressed bugs and improved the animation sequences and user interface elements. The user worked on adding, modifying, and merging code related to animated icons.
androidiconblog-postanimated-vector-drawablesanimated-icons
jakearchibald/svgomg
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Web GUI for SVGO
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the project by addressing minor code issues and improving the user interface. They fixed a typo in a utility function, ensured consistent import of an event emitter, and corrected text within the UI. Additionally, the user updated the project by increasing the SVGO version. These contributions indicate a focus on code quality, user experience, and keeping dependencies up to date.
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