Axel Roest
Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAxel Roest is a senior software engineer based in Amsterdam with over three decades of hands-on development experience and 14 years in professional roles, specializing in iOS and macOS native development using Objective-C, Swift/SwiftUI, C and Ruby. He co-founded The App Academy to train mobile developers and runs Phluxus, where he blends hardware hacking and embedded sensors with consumer apps—bringing physical and digital experiences together. Axel has modernized legacy Objective-C iPad apps, led SwiftUI migrations at enterprise clients, and shipped production experiments and features at Booking.com, demonstrating a pragmatic mix of craftsmanship and product focus. Trained as a physicist, he pairs analytic rigor with creative engineering, and continues to freelance on projects that rescue and future-proof long-lived Apple software.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Fons Vitae Lyceummaster, physics, master, physics at University of AmsterdamCocoa Bootcamp, Cocoa Bootcamp at Big Nerd Ranch
Dutch
Stackoverflow
545reputation
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5questions
Github Skills (185)
docker-compose10
mailbox10
imap10
smtp10
dovecot9
acme9
mailserver9
server-side9
swift9
disposable9
mailcow9
rest-api9
mailhog9
email-parsing9
thermostat9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
axello/arduino
Apr 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 7 months
axello/rekenen
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
Rekensommetjes voor thuis
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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