Gio Lodi
Mobile Infrastructure Engineer at Automattic
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolGio Lodi is a Mobile Infrastructure Engineer with 12 years' experience building and hardening mobile apps and their CI/CD pipelines, currently focused on iOS at Automattic from Melbourne. He combines hands-on UI and test automation expertise—contributing to high-profile projects like WordPress and Simplenote across iOS, Android and Electron—with a strong TDD mindset and a history of improving test reliability and screenshot automation. As an engineering lead at iflix he balanced strategic platform vision, team mentorship and shipping a 4+ star, 99% crash-free app while owning release automation. Comfortable across Swift, Kotlin, Ruby and Node.js, he frequently bridges frontend polish and infrastructure needs, and is notable for fixing flaky UI tests and integrating analytics to make test suites actionable.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Università degli Studi di Ferrara
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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iphone
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cocoapods
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unit-testing
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testflight
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Github Skills (71)
mobile-development10
testing10
testflight10
appkit10
javas10
ui-automation10
javascript10
appstoreconnect10
async10
cil10
xctest10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
typescripts10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mokagio/UICollectionViewLeftAlignedLayout
Apr 2014 - Jan 2023
A layout for UICollectionView that aligns the cells to the left.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:2 releases, 55 commits, 7 PRs in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gio primarily contributed to the example iOS application within the repository, implementing the UICollectionViewLeftAlignedLayout. Their work included setting up the initial example project, updating the example to demonstrate the left-aligned layout, and integrating with other libraries. They also made improvements to the example's visual appearance and functionality, adding features like auto-refreshing and adapting the example to CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager.
uicollectionviewlayoutlayoutswiftiosuikit
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 releases, 1870 reviews, 2234 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Gio primarily contributed to the WordPress iOS app, focusing on UI and test-related tasks. They worked on UI test flakiness by terminating the XCUIApplication as part of UI tests and then integrating Buildkite Test Analytics. They also modified and added UI components such as buttons and navigation bars. Their contributions show a focus on improving the user interface and the testability of the iOS application.
cocoapodsobjective-cwordpressswiftios
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