Alfonso Grillo
Senior IOS Developer at PerceptoLab
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAlfonso Grillo is a Senior iOS Developer with a decade of experience building native iOS apps and shipping product-focused features across startups and large enterprises. Based in Rome, he has driven mobile work at companies like Element and YOOX NET-A-PORTER and currently contributes to PerceptoLab, blending hands-on coding with mentorship. His open-source contributions to the Matrix iOS SDK and Element client include bug fixes, thread-safety improvements, and performance work on poll aggregation—demonstrating attention to reliability and real-time collaboration features. Alfonso routinely improves UX details such as audio playback and location sharing while reducing unnecessary UI friction, showing a pragmatic eye for polish. A curious lifelong learner with a master’s in computer engineering from Sapienza, he dedicates personal time to evolving his craft and exploring new technologies. Colleagues value him for clean, testable code and steady improvements that make production apps more robust and user-friendly.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Magistrale LM, Computer Engineering, Laurea Magistrale LM, Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English
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Github Skills (18)
objective-c10
ios10
mobile-development10
matrix10
sdk10
mobile10
swift10
unit-testing9
user-interface9
audio-playback9
swiftui-app9
swiftui9
generics6
macos6
protocols6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
element-hq/element-ios
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:101 reviews, 300 commits, 80 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alfonso primarily focused on enhancing the iOS application by implementing and refining features related to location sharing and audio message playback. Their work included the removal of unnecessary loading indicators, modification of completion handling, and the addition of build settings to control background audio playback. Furthermore, the user improved the user interface, adding functionalities such as the ability to show or hide IP address and fixed some UI related bug. These contributions suggest a focus on improving usability and functionality.
ios
matrix-org/matrix-ios-sdk
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The Matrix SDK for iOS
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:50 reviews, 81 commits, 30 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alfonso primarily contributed to the iOS SDK of the Matrix project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to room member flags, adding support for account data deletion, and refining client information services. They also made improvements to unit tests, especially those related to account data and poll aggregations, showcasing a focus on code quality and reliability within the iOS SDK environment. Further commits focused on improving the performance of the poll aggregator, including refactoring code and ensuring thread safety.
ios
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