Andrea Antonioni
IOS Tech Lead at Yelp
Bristol, England, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Antonioni is an iOS Tech Lead with 10 years' experience building consumer mobile experiences, currently leading Search and App Clip initiatives at Yelp from Bristol. He combines hands-on Swift engineering with product-minded leadership—mentoring teams, shaping roadmaps, and optimizing CI and review processes. His work spans accessibility, UX refinements and measurable product impact (e.g., implementing Sign in with Apple and improving login conversion), and he has a track record of shipping performant UI components. An active open-source contributor, he has improved widely used iOS libraries like MessageKit and M13Checkbox, focusing on input UX, animations, and Swift modernisation. Fluent in driving cross-functional collaboration, he pairs a designer’s attention to detail with pragmatic engineering for high-impact consumer features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Science, 95/100, High School Diploma, Computer Science, 95/100 at ITIS Castelli (BS)
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
30reputation
1kreached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (20)
ios10
messaging10
animation10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
messagekit10
swift10
interface-builder9
refactor9
refactoring9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
uilabel6
uitableview6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Marxon13/M13Checkbox
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
A customizeable checkbox for iOS
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the `m13checkbox` project, a customizable checkbox for iOS. Their work focused on refining the component's functionality and maintainability. They refactored the code, improved the default values and animation configurations, addressed a specific issue (#97) and made the code Swift 4.2 compatible. Furthermore, they moved DefaultValues into the Source folder and fixed some warnings.
cydiaswiftioscheckbox
MessageKit/MessageKit
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Andrea focused on enhancing the `MessageKit` iOS project, specifically modifying the UI of the message input bar. Their work included changing the appearance and behavior of the send button, implementing placeholder functionality for the input text view, and improving component performance. They also addressed a bug related to the placeholder text and incorporated responsiveness to device orientation changes.
chatswiftiosmessagingmessenger
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