Paolo Leonardi is a Senior iOS Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building consumer and banking mobile apps across companies like Just Eat Takeaway.com, Lloyds Banking Group and Sky. He holds a Master's in Computer Science and combines strong app architecture and feature delivery skills with a focus on performance, testability and cross-platform nuances. Paolo contributes to SwiftUI tooling—authoring improvements to a WaterfallGrid layout that added horizontal scrolling and tailored views for iOS, macOS and watchOS—showing attention to UX details beyond typical backend concerns. He has deep hands-on knowledge of native frameworks (AVFoundation, CoreData, MapKit, Security) and a track record of improving code quality in large-scale, regulated apps. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who balances product needs with maintainable, well-tested solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Programme, Computing in Commercial Computing, Erasmus Programme, Computing in Commercial Computing at Dundalk Institute of Technology
Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo" Giarre
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Università di Catania
Contributions:9 releases, 22 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Paolo primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the WaterfallGrid SwiftUI layout. They addressed platform-specific differences in the ContentView across iOS, macOS, and watchOS, tailoring the UI for each environment. The user also added a horizontal scroll option to the grid, demonstrating an understanding of layout customization and user experience improvements. Their work involved modifying the grid's settings and adapting tests to accommodate the new scroll direction feature.
JustTweak is a feature flagging framework for iOS apps.
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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