Ilias Pavlidakis is a Staff iOS Engineer with a decade of experience building and leading mobile teams at companies including Stream, Twitter, and Expedia Group, now based in Attica, Greece. He combines deep iOS expertise—UIKit, Core Data, APIs and migration work—with a pragmatic engineering leadership style that progressed from solo mobile developer roles to staff-level impact. An entrepreneur at heart, he pairs product-minded thinking with strong algorithmic problem-solving and a taste for life-hacking and new gadgets. He’s contributed to open-source tooling such as SwiftIconFont, improving type safety and Xcode compatibility for icon font loading, showing a willingness to maintain and modernize community libraries. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex integrations into reliable, user-facing experiences while mentoring engineers across the stack.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at Technological Educational Institute of Athens
Icons fonts for iOS (Font Awesome 5, Iconic, Ionicon, Octicon, Themify, MapIcon, MaterialIcon, Foundation 3, Elegant Icon, Captain Icon)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ilias primarily contributed to the `SwiftIconFont` repository, focusing on resolving build errors and addressing linter comments within the `FontLoader.swift` file. Their work involved refactoring code to improve type safety and adapting the project for compatibility with newer Xcode versions. The commits also indicate efforts to fix logical failures within the font loading mechanism. This suggests a focus on maintaining and improving the core functionality of the library.
Contributions:36 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 months
swiftiossafetype-safe
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