Alexis Akers
Senior Software Engineer at Square
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexis Akers is a Senior iOS software engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building reliable, high‑quality mobile features for retail and enterprise products. Currently at Square, he leads cross-disciplinary projects for Square for Retail—delivering scalable features like label printing (over 1.5M labels printed in six months), cloud-based inventory counting, and a cross-product barcode scanning modernization. Earlier roles at Wire and Deutsche Bank honed his skills in secure communications, offline-first sync engines, internationalization, and company-wide accessibility initiatives. He combines low-level image and hardware troubleshooting (vImage, printer command languages, AVFoundation) with pragmatic system design and release management. An advocate for accessibility and open source, he has contributed platform-agnostic tests and UI components to projects like BulletinBoard and champions knowledge-sharing across teams. His atypical background in law study gives him a structured, detail-oriented approach to product and process decisions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Program, Law, Undergraduate Program, Law at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
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Github Skills (13)
xcode10
swift10
ios10
xctest10
card9
configuration-file9
configurations9
debugging6
watchkit6
uiwebview6
appstore6
crash6
uiview6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexaubry/BulletinBoard
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
General-purpose contextual cards for iOS
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 2 reviews, 276 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexis contributed to the initialization and configuration of the Xcode project. They added initial functional tests using the XCTest framework and implemented a basic UI component. The user also added the necessary code and project structure to support Linux platform testing.
cocoapodsios-libraryconfigurationonboardingpurpose
alexaubry/HTMLString
Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
Escape and unescape HTML entities in Swift
Contributions:14 releases, 4 reviews, 16 commits in 3 years
html-escapestringhtml-unescapeunescapeutf-8
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