Felix Lapalme
IOS Lead at Transit
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolFelix Lapalme is an iOS Lead based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building polished mobile experiences, currently leading iOS efforts at Transit. He moved up through hands-on engineering roles at Transit after earlier iOS stints at Mirego and TouchTunes, combining product-driven development with platform-level performance work. Felix contributes to open-source iOS libraries—improving visual components and animations in projects like SVProgressHUD and a custom pulsing annotation view—showing a focus on rendering performance and UI detail. With a Computer Engineering background from Université de Sherbrooke, he blends low-level optimization instincts with pragmatic leadership in shipping reliable, user-facing mobile features.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Université de Sherbrooke
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appleii9
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TransitApp/SVPulsingAnnotationView
Jun 2017 - Jun 2022
A customizable MKUserLocationView replica for your iOS app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Felix focused on improving the performance and visual appearance of the `SVPulsingAnnotationView` component. They optimized the rendering process by rasterizing specific layers and also addressed UI issues related to dynamic color changes by rebuilding layers. Further contributions involved correcting image centering within the view's frame and also the related heading image centering.
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SVProgressHUD/SVProgressHUD
May 2017 - Nov 2020
A clean and lightweight progress HUD for your iOS and tvOS app.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to the SVProgressHUD iOS library by fixing bugs, reverting changes, and making updates to the UI components of the HUD. They addressed issues related to accessibility notifications and the appearance of the indefinite animation. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the shrinking animation and other visual aspects of the HUD, likely to improve its usability and visual appeal. Their work involved modifying existing code, specifically within the SVProgressHUD and SVIndefiniteAnimatedView files.
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