Alexander Botkin
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Slack
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Botkin is a Cornell-educated senior software engineering manager specializing in mobile platforms, with over a decade of experience building and scaling iOS and cross-platform products for large audiences. A former Apple frameworks engineer, he has led distributed teams across the US, Europe, and India to deliver production apps and integrations for CarPlay, Android Auto, and Android Automotive OS, supporting hundreds of thousands to over a million active users. At ChargePoint he drove major mobile UI refreshes, launched a dedicated installer app, and helped secure two US patents through team innovation and mentorship. He combines hands-on iOS expertise in Objective-C and Swift with product-minded leadership, technical partnerships with Apple/Google/OEMs, and a knack for shipping platform-level features. Based in California, he also co-founded an AI-powered iOS startup leveraging iOS 26 Foundation Models, showing a continuing appetite for applied research and entrepreneurial product work.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Computer Science, Master of Engineering Computer Science at Cornell University
English, German, Korean
Github Skills (110)
interface-builder10
uipageviewcontroller10
authentication10
uiview10
ruby10
cocoa10
automation10
refresh10
cocoa-touch10
firebase-authentication10
javascript10
pickerview10
html10
uicollectionviewlayout10
android-apps10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChargePoint/AFNetworking
May 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches, 4 tags in 7 years
tvosnetworkingswiftiosos-x
ChargePoint/homebrew-xcparse
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years
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