Vlad Alexa
Software Engineering Team Lead at Next Design SRL
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Alexa is a software engineering leader with 15+ years delivering Apple platform software across macOS, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS and tvOS. He currently serves as Software Engineering Team Lead at Bally's Interactive and as owner of Next Design SRL, blending hands-on development with strategic product leadership for consumer software. An active open-source contributor, he advanced GRDB.swift by improving Codable support for nested data and JSON encoding/decoding, backed by thorough testing. His career spans senior iOS roles at Hedgehog Lab, Fleetondemand, RotaCloud, The Distance and Stroma, where he built large-scale Swift/SwiftUI apps and mentored teams. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Vlad pairs a diverse technical journey—from PHP freelancing to SwiftUI expertise—with a BA in Literature and ISO process training.
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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
json10
sqlite10
codable10
databases10
sqlite-310
sql10
swift10
sqlite310
database10
cocoa9
macos9
sql-builder9
spu7
spim7
spi7
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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