Anthony Lobianco
Senior Software Engineer (iOS) at Duolingo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAnthony Lobianco is a Senior iOS Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance, user-focused apps across consumer and utility domains, currently at Duolingo after senior roles at Spotify and Airbnb. He blends deep client-side expertise in Objective-C and Swift with a broad background in front-end, cross-platform libraries, CI/CD, tooling and systems work, which lets him own both product-facing UI and the engineering workflows that keep teams shipping. His open-source contributions—such as enhancements to ALMoviePlayerController and ALAlertBanner—show a practical focus on polish, compatibility and customizable UI controls. Based in New York and trained in multimedia design with a CS minor from UNC-Chapel Hill, he’s equally comfortable optimizing animations and media playback as he is improving developer experience and automation.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Multimedia Design, Bachelor’s Degree Multimedia Design at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lobianco/ALMoviePlayerController
Oct 2013 - Jan 2016
A drop-in replacement for MPMoviePlayerController that exposes the UI elements and allows for maximum customization.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:43 commits, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily contributed to the `ALMoviePlayerController` project, focusing on implementing and refining UI elements and control behaviors within the movie player. Key changes included adding new UI controls, such as scale and seek buttons, and adapting the existing controls to provide more functionality. The user also addressed specific iOS 7 compatibility issues, ensuring the user interface and controls functioned correctly across different iOS versions. The contributions showcase a focus on improving the user experience and expanding control options within the movie player framework.
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lobianco/ALAlertBanner
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
A simple and clean alert banner for iPhone and iPad.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:97 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on enhancing the `ALAlertBanner` project, an iOS alert banner library. Their contributions involved significant code changes to the `ALAlertBannerView.m` and `ALAlertBannerManager.m` files, indicating work on core functionality and layout adjustments. The user made numerous commits to improve performance and stability. The commits also show that the user addressed compatibility issues and made improvements for table views within the demo project.
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