Vlad Alexa
Software Engineering Team Lead at Bally's Interactive
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Alexa is a seasoned software engineering team lead and founder with over 15 years of professional experience and more than 20 years coding across macOS and iOS platforms. Based in Manchester, he combines hands-on Swift/SwiftUI expertise with leadership experience delivering large-scale consumer and enterprise apps—from banking and fitness to corporate mobility and kiosk terminals. He has a strong backend understanding demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the popular GRDB.swift SQLite toolkit, improving Codable support for nested and complex types. Vlad is comfortable owning products end-to-end, having run his own company building multi-platform consumer apps while also mentoring junior engineers and shaping team processes. He has a practical systems background (network engineering and ISO auditing) that informs his disciplined, test-focused approach to architecture and performance. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic prototypes that de-risk technology choices and accelerate adoption of new frameworks.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
ISO 9001 ISO 14001 internal auditor, ISO 9001 ISO 14001 internal auditor at TUV RheinlandCisco Networking AcademyLiterature, Literature at Emil Racovita
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (22)
json10
sqlite10
codable10
databases10
sql10
swift10
database10
cocoa9
macos9
sql-builder9
spu7
spim7
spi7
spmd7
swiftui6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
groue/GRDB.swift
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
A toolkit for SQLite databases, with a focus on application development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily focused on enhancing the Codable support within the GRDB framework, particularly for nested and complex data structures like arrays and dictionaries. They implemented features to correctly handle JSON encoding and decoding of nested types when persisting data to SQLite databases. Their work included thorough testing to ensure the accurate handling of optional and non-optional nested structs and arrays, as well as integration with JSON encoding/decoding. Additionally, the user improved the data conversion of various types.
sqlite-databasessql-buildergrdbsqlsqlite3
valexa/HeatSync
May 2011 - May 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes in 10 years 1 month
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