Alvin Choo
Summary
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SeniorAlvin Choo is a product-focused engineering leader with 13 years of experience building mobile-first payments and pricing platforms, currently leading transactional journey product development at FairPrice Group in Singapore. He has scaled a single squad into a multi-team org, owned end-to-end offerings like an in-house Offers & Promotion Engine and “Pay with FairPrice” QR payments, and delivered enterprise integrations that span mobile, backend, and retail systems. Comfortable both hands-on and strategic, Alvin blends iOS engineering roots and open-source contributions (notably improvements to the popular Swift networking library Moya) with strong operational discipline—SLIs/SLOs, CI/CD, and on-call runbooks. He’s known for mentoring leaders, improving omnichannel tooling to cut setup time and errors, and turning complex stakeholder needs into measurable business outcomes. A co-founder of an iOS-focused open-source project, Alvin brings startup agility to large-scale retail operations, balancing legacy sustainment with new feature velocity.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
swift10
networking10
testing10
reactivecocoa9
rxswift8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Moya/Moya
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Network abstraction layer written in Swift.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alvin primarily contributed to the Moya project by modifying core components related to request handling and queue management. Their work included adding the ability to specify a queue for requests and updating test cases to reflect the new functionality. The user also refactored code to use a more consistent method signature.
swiftreactiveswiftrxswiftalamofirenetworking
Pointwelve/Revealed-iOS
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:63 commits, 20 PRs, 69 pushes in 5 months
iosswiftgraphql
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