Alex Lykesas
Freelance IOS Developer
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolAlex Lykesas is a freelance iOS developer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient, high-performance native apps and SDKs, currently based in Thessaloniki, Greece. He has led engineering efforts from team leadership to senior roles—shipping chat and messaging features at scale using MVVMC, Combine and TDD, and improving offline-first experiences with robust persistence and sync. A Swift enthusiast and active open-source contributor, Alex has made notable enhancements to popular projects like Agrume (image viewer) and AMScrollingNavbar, adding iPad multitasking support, smoother animations, and refined scrolling behavior. He combines product-focused collaboration with automation and CI/CD (Bitrise) know-how, and holds an MSc in Digital Media with AI, reflecting a blend of practical mobile engineering and machine learning-informed thinking.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Informatics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Informatics Engineering at Technological Educational Institute of Western MacedoniaMaster of Science (MSc) Digital Media - Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MSc) Digital Media - Artificial Intelligence at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
German, English, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
uinavigationcontroller10
swift10
rotation10
ios10
scroll10
scrolling10
uicollectionview9
uikit9
image-viewer9
ui-design8
image7
cocoapods7
carthage7
json6
pdf6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JanGorman/Agrume
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
🍋 A lemony fresh iOS image viewer written in Swift.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:23 commits, 10 PRs, 34 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the iOS image viewer application, Agrume. Their work involved implementing new features, improving existing functionalities, and fixing bugs related to image display and user interaction. They added functionality for image rotation, implemented iPad multi-tasking support, and enhanced the user experience with improved animations and transitions. The user also addressed specific iOS version compatibility issues.
cocoapodsimageviewerimageimage-viewersdwebimage
andreamazz/AMScrollingNavbar
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Scrollable UINavigationBar that follows the scrolling of a UIScrollView
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 38 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `amscrollingnavbar` project, focusing on enhancing its functionality and fixing bugs related to the scrolling navigation bar's behavior. Their work included adding features like `expandOnVisible` to control navigation bar visibility on app launch, incorporating an `additionalScrollToTopOffset` variable for more precise scroll-to-top behavior, and correcting calculations to ensure proper scrolling with followers. They also addressed whitespace, line length violations, and integrated follower alpha updates.
scrollingscrollableuiscrollviewswiftios
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