Professional Summary

Senior iOS Developer with 10+ years of experience building scalable and intuitive apps for high-impact organizations like The New York Times. Avid in Swift, SwiftUI, StoreKit, and subscription infrastructure. Proven track record of increasing subscriber conversion, shipping production-ready features, and mentoring future engineers. Passionate about code quality, performance, accessibility, and developer tools like Cursor AI and GitHub Copilot.

Technical Skills

iOS Development: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, StoreKit, SwiftData, CoreLocation, AppIntents

Tooling: Xcode, Git, Swift Package Manager, TestFlight, Firebase Remote Config

Testing: XCTest, Unit Testing, CI/CD, Bitrise, Charles Proxy, StoreKit Testing, Sandbox Testing

Cross-functional: Agile, Figma, Mentorship, Curriculum Design, Jira

AI Tools: Cursor AI, Ollama, Open WebUI, GitHub Copilot

Scripting & Web: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python, Node

Testimonials

Jasper Curry: I was lucky to have Alex as a senior engineer on my team where I led growth for all New York Times mobile iOS/Android apps (Games, Cooking, News, etc.). Alex is truly an exceptional talent; he’s curious, an amazing engineer, kind, passionate, and just an absolute pleasure to work with.

He’s always striving to learn, often building apps in his free time, and shares his knowledge through mentoring and writing about iOS development (check out his website!). Alex is not only very technically strong but also brings a thoughtful, strategic approach to his work. He asks insightful questions and is unafraid to tackle the more tedious aspects of software development, like proactively reaching out to stakeholders to get clarity, setting up meetings, and reviewing/writing documentation.

Most importantly, Alex is amazing to collaborate with on ambiguous problems. He played a key role in some of the most important and valuable initiatives at NYT, consistently over-delivering for the team and the company.

If you’re looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise with a collaborative, proactive/positive mindset, Alex is the person you want on your team.

Robert Edwards: Alex and I worked closely together on a number of high value iOS subscription and user growth projects while on the Growth mobile team at The New York Times.

Alex embodies all the core traits of a perfect team member. He was quick to pick up any work that needed to get completed, he could dig into issues that needed further research and he was always thoroughly prepared for team syncs so that we maximized our time working together.

Alex is also an incredibly kind individual. He is a value multiplier and anyone would be lucky to have him on their team.

Alex Hartwell: I worked with Alex on a number of projects at SWARM. We were both relatively new developers at the time and he was a great person to work with. Immensely positive, hard working, and curious. We were thrown in the deep end and he never failed to dive deep, explore possible solutions, try things out, learn quickly, and ship features and projects.

He’s an asset to any team/project he works on.