Gwendal Roué
iOS Developer at Pierlis
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarGwendal Roué is an experienced iOS developer based in Paris with 15 years building robust mobile apps and developer tools. He is the author and maintainer of notable open-source projects—most prominently GRDB.swift, a toolkit for SQLite tailored to application development—and has contributed stability fixes and features to widely used projects like apollo-ios and CocoaPods. His work spans app-level concerns and deeper infrastructure: database engineering, GraphQL client reliability, and dependency manager internals, often improving test coverage and refactoring core classes. Known for pragmatic, well-tested solutions, he brings a backend-minded perspective to mobile development, optimizing data handling and build-time behavior that quietly improve developer and runtime experience.
15 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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sqlite
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Github Skills (28)
dependency-manager10
objective-c10
ios10
sqlite10
testing10
websocket10
wpgraphql10
apollo-ios10
package-manager-tool10
websockets-client10
sql10
database-design10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql-client10
graphql10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
groue/GRDB.swift
Jun 2015 - Jan 2023
A toolkit for SQLite databases, with a focus on application development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:33 releases, 66 reviews, 10189 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gwendal primarily focused on enhancing the GRDB.swift toolkit for SQLite databases by implementing new features related to data handling and database management. Their contributions included refactoring existing code, adding new capabilities for managing key encoding and decoding strategies for Encodable and Fetchable Records. Further improvements included the addition of functionality for table creation, along with tests to validate the improvements.
sqlite-databasessql-buildergrdbsqlsqlite3
apollographql/apollo-ios
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
📱 A strongly-typed, caching GraphQL client for iOS, written in Swift.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Gwendal primarily contributed to the `apollo-ios` repository by addressing bugs and improving the stability of the GraphQL client. Their work included fixing double error handling in the `WebSocketTransport` class and updating the connection state management. Additionally, the user modified the `Atomic` class to allow the mutate function to return a value, and updated documentation. They also updated tests for the WebSocketTransport to reflect new connection state behavior.
graphql-clientapollographqlcachingapollo-iosstrongly-typed
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