Alexander Edge
Head Of Engineering at The Body Coach
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexander Edge is a Head of Engineering based in Warwick with 13 years of hands-on experience and over a decade leading product-focused mobile engineering teams. He progressed from iOS engineer and founder roles into senior and principal iOS positions at organisations like Guardian, ustwo and New Look before moving into engineering management and leadership at The Body Coach. Alexander blends deep iOS craftsmanship—demonstrated by contributions to the PSTCollectionView open-source project improving UICollectionView behavior—with strategic delivery of consumer-facing mobile products. He’s comfortable moving between code-level problem solving and building high-performing teams, prioritising reliable UX and data sync correctness. An MEng in Electronic and Communications Engineering from Bristol underpins his pragmatic approach to architecture and continuous improvement.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng) Electronic and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng) Electronic and Communications Engineering at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (15)
objective-c10
swift10
ios10
uicollectionview10
data-structure9
uikit9
data-structures9
algorithms8
xcode6
authentication6
cocoa-touch6
grand-central-dispatch6
avfoundation6
iphone6
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
steipete/PSTCollectionView
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Open Source, 100% API compatible replacement of UICollectionView for iOS4.3+
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `PSTCollectionView` project, an iOS UICollectionView replacement. Their work focused on improving the collection view's functionality, specifically addressing issues related to item deletion and layout updates. Key contributions include implementing a dictionary to manage views slated for removal during updates, fixing double "batchUpdates" issues, and refining the index path handling for more accurate data synchronization. They also made improvements in the sample project by adding data backing to showcase deletion and fixing compiler warnings.
uicollectionview
alexanderedge/Gradient
Dec 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 8 months
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