Cory Alder
Lead Developer at Davander Mobile Corporation
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorCory Alder is a Lead Developer based in Vancouver with 15 years of experience building and shipping iOS apps and developer tools. He leads engineering at Davander Mobile and previously contributed to platform tooling at Apple and to fast-moving mobile teams like buddybuild. Cory blends hands-on full‑stack mobile development with mentorship experience from teaching at Lighthouse Labs, helping early engineers level up in practical iOS skills. An active open-source contributor, he improved the popular ShareKit library by hardening social tagging, API character handling, and demo examples to make sharing integrations more robust. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he favors shipping reliable, well-tested features and fixing edge-case bugs that quietly improve product quality. Colleagues would describe him as a technical leader who balances product needs with developer ergonomics.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (9)
apim10
objective-c10
shareware10
ios10
api10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
swift4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ShareKit/ShareKit
Aug 2012 - Aug 2012
Drop in sharing features for all iPhone and iPad apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on enhancing the ShareKit library by implementing and refining features related to sharing functionality. Their contributions included updating the tagging system across various social media services like Twitter, Tumblr, and Delicious, ensuring proper formatting and handling of tags. They also fixed bugs related to nil values in the tag arrays and added example code to the demo project. Furthermore, they tweaked character sets for different APIs to align with their allowed characters.
ipaddrop-iniphonereact-nativesharing
coryalder/DMActivityInstagram
Sep 2012 - Aug 2015
Instagram sharing, iOS 6 style.
Contributions:45 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 11 months
instagramsharingios
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