Xander Gottlieb
Front-end Software Engineer at Blastoff Design Ltd
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolXander Gottlieb is a senior front-end engineer based in Brighton with nine years of experience building developer-friendly React and Flutter applications and design systems. He combines hands-on implementation—having driven large codemods, performant rendering tweaks, and iOS audio integrations for popular open-source plugins—with technical leadership across distributed teams at Toptal and multiple consultancies. Xander has founded and shipped cross-platform apps showcased by Google and used by 100,000+ students, and he’s built privacy-conscious healthcare tooling validated by pen testing. Known for mentoring, interviewing, and running workshops, he accelerates junior engineers into full-time roles while raising team engineering standards. Comfortable translating between designers, product leaders and developers, he prioritises consensus and pragmatic UX improvements that reduce regressions and speed delivery. Outside core project work he writes and teaches widely, influencing thousands via Stack Overflow and blog posts.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with Philosophy, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science with Philosophy at Durham University
Github Skills (7)
objective-c10
ios10
flutter-plugin10
flutter-apps9
flutter9
flutter-game9
dart7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryanheise/audio_service
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Flutter plugin to play audio in the background while the screen is off.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Xander focused on implementing and improving the iOS integration of the audio service plugin. They added support for toggling play/pause functionality within the iOS remote control, fixed compile errors, and refactored code to utilize the background channel for various commands. They also initialized the audio session and remote command center, ensuring proper handling of audio playback control. The user also disabled unsupported commands to prevent unexpected behavior.
dartaudioflutter-pluginflutterwhile
alexandergottlieb/blastoff.design
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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