Alexey Korolev is a Senior iOS Developer with 11 years of experience building production-grade Swift applications and leading teams through architecture, CI/CD, and delivery. He progressed from embedded and Qt development into mobile, bringing a systems-oriented mindset from his early AVR work to modern iOS engineering. At Heads and Hands he scaled teams and pipelines while collaborating tightly with backend and QA to ship maintainable products, and he now contributes that expertise at VK. An active open-source contributor, he maintains the AppIcon tool, showing deep familiarity with Swift tooling, dependency management, and cross-version build fixes. Colocated in Saransk, he combines hands-on coding, mentorship, and a pragmatic focus on shipping high-quality iOS software. He’s particularly skilled at refactoring legacy dependencies and smoothing Swift compatibility issues that often block teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial electronics, Bachelor's degree, Industrial electronics at Mordovia State University named after N.P. Ogarev (MSU)
AppIcon generates *.appiconset contains each resolution image for iOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexey has primarily focused on improving and maintaining the `AppIcon` project. They added support for features like Mint and implemented argument parsing using `ArgumentParser`. Their work includes refactoring dependencies (removing and updating libraries such as SwiftyJSON and SwiftShell), addressing build issues related to Swift version compatibility, and validating input parameters. This demonstrates a strong understanding of the project's codebase and the Swift ecosystem.
Contributions:34 PRs, 37 pushes, 35 branches in 3 years 8 months
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