Alexander Helgason
Staff Mobile Engineer at Sotheby's
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
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Top SchoolAlexander Helgason is a Staff Mobile Engineer based in Reykjavik with 11 years of experience building high-quality Android and iOS products across startups and enterprise teams. He has shipped large-scale consumer apps (QuizUp) and mission-critical banking and travel apps, contributing to migrations between Objective-C, Swift, React Native and Kotlin-driven MVVM architectures. Skilled in CI/CD, automated testing, and native navigation, he’s delivered features, test suites and platform tooling that improved release velocity and UX consistency. A collaborative team player and mentor, he has also built offline-first apps and created bespoke tools like an Android airport security app and CI pipelines at WOW air. Unusually for a senior engineer, he holds a private pilot license, reflecting a practical, disciplined approach to complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Private Pilot License, Private Pilot License at Icelandic Flight AcademyBachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
Icelandic, English
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Github Skills (63)
ios10
react-native10
reason-react10
fastlane10
ruby10
automation10
android10
gocd10
mobile10
linting10
android-apps10
instabug9
static-analysis9
swiftlint9
swift-package-manager9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alliannas/alliannas.github.io
Mar 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
alliannas/bs-react-native
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
BuckleScript bindings for React Native
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
react-nativereactbucklescriptbucklescript-bindings
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