Aron Cedercrantz
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAron Cedercrantz is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience focused on crafting polished user experiences within the Apple ecosystem, now building iOS at Netflix after a long tenure at Spotify. He specializes in Cocoa/Cocoa Touch and API design, combining deep UI sensibilities with practical engineering—evidenced by maintenance and bug-fix contributions to widely used Spotify iOS libraries and the OctoKit Objective-C GitHub client. At Spotify he progressed from developer to staff engineer, working on component-driven UI frameworks and persistent caching where he improved test coverage and resolved complex typing and build issues. Based in New York with a Master’s in Information Technology, Aron brings a researcher’s eye for interaction design (his master’s thesis) to production mobile engineering.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering, Information Technology, Master of Science in Engineering, Information Technology at Chalmers University of Technology
English, Swedish
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
debug10
ios10
apidoc10
api10
github-api10
swift10
code-optimization9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
reactivecocoa9
uid9
xcode9
autolayout8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/SPTPersistentCache
Feb 2016 - Jan 2017
Everyone tries to implement a cache at some point in their iOS app’s lifecycle, and this is ours.
Role in this project:
iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 153 commits, 36 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Aron primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `spotify/sptpersistentcache` iOS library. Their contributions included fixing build errors, addressing compiler warnings (like implicit casts and format string issues), and enhancing code quality. They also made improvements to the test suite by fixing sorting algorithms, adding unit tests, and improving overall test coverage.
lifecycleios-appcachingpointswift
spotify/HubFramework
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
DEPRECATED – Spotify’s component-driven UI framework for iOS
Role in this project:iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:1 release, 348 commits, 106 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Aron primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the existing codebase within the Spotify Hub Framework. Their contributions include resolving nullability issues, correcting conflicting return types in copy methods, and addressing typing problems in JSON parsing operations. The user also worked on improving the component view layout and addressing build errors, along with code style adjustments, and adding support for static libraries.
component-drivenios-librarymaccatalystui-frameworkspotify
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