Jérôme Alves
Making Apps For Parents at Helby Studio
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolJérôme Alves is a senior iOS engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building native apps and shipping product-led features for companies like Datadog, Heetch, FinalCAD and Deezer. Now leading Helby Studio and the children’s podcast app Tatikati, he blends hands-on Swift expertise with product instincts to design calming family experiences. He’s a prolific open-source contributor in the RxSwift ecosystem—improving RxGesture and refactoring RxCocoa extensions—demonstrating deep mastery of reactive patterns and UIKit. As a former lead at multiple startups, he’s known for introducing architecture, design system foundations and development practices (TDD, SOLID) while mentoring teams. Based in Toulouse, he also co-organizes the Swift Toulouse community and has spoken at FrenchKit, reflecting active engagement with the Swift ecosystem.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Informatique Management, Master of Science Informatique Management at SUPINFO
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Github Skills (12)
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swift10
uikit10
rxswift10
gesture10
ios10
reactive-programming10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
rxcocoa10
functional-programming9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RxSwiftCommunity/RxGesture
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
RxSwift reactive wrapper for view gestures
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 4 reviews, 118 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily refactored and enhanced the RxGesture library, a reactive wrapper for view gestures in RxSwift. They added the ability to configure gesture recognizers using a configuration closure, allowing for fine-grained control over delegates and other settings. Furthermore, they introduced and enhanced various gesture-related features, including transform gestures (combining pan, rotation, and pinch), and contributed examples, and performed project configuration updates.
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ReactiveX/RxSwift
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Reactive Programming in Swift
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jérôme primarily focused on modifying and updating the existing Reactive programming extensions within the RxCocoa library, specifically for iOS components. Their work involved refactoring code related to table views and other UIKit elements, shifting the syntax of RxCocoa extensions to the `rx.` naming convention, and resolving merge conflicts arising from Swift 3.0 updates. This demonstrates a deep understanding of the Reactive programming paradigm within the Swift and iOS ecosystem. Further modifications related to testing frameworks and sent messages demonstrates familiarity with iOS testing practices.
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