Alex Akers Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

Pandamonia is a creative outlet for Alex to publishing iOS and macOS apps. Some highlights include Backgammon with Buddies, a beautiful multiplayer backgammon game; and Babelgum Translator, an in-line translator for vocabulary learning.

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

Started working on Microsoft Outlook's iOS app in New York.

Berlin, Germany

Working on Microsoft To Do client apps for Apple platforms. Continued maintenance for the Wunderlist apps for iOS and macOS.

Berlin, Germany

I worked on both of their mobile apps. One of which allows Shutterstock contributors to manage image metadata for their submissions, upload new submissions from their phone's camera roll, and view both their daily and monthly commission earnings. The other app allows Shutterstock customers to search for, view, and organize high-quality stock photography.

New York, Ny & London, Uk

Until December 2014, I worked on the Rooms app, since discontinued. Following that, I was a core team member of the React Native framework from January until September 2015. It made its open source debut in March of that year.

New York, Ny

Led mobile engineering efforts at Branch. Wrote the mobile iOS client for Potluck, a link-sharing social network for friends to discuss online content. I also wrote the iOS app PhoneTag, a voicemail style app where friends can send voice memos to each other accompanied by some kind of contextual photo.

New York, Ny

Performed tests to quantify the battery effects of background location monitoring to surface useful tips for nearby restaurants and other venues. After iOS 7 was announced at WWDC a few weeks into my internship, I worked the rest of the summer to help update the Foursquare iOS client for the new interface design patterns.

New York, Ny

Assisted in the iOS client rewrite for Minus, a social platform for meeting, chatting with, and sharing photos with nearby people. I was in charge of the messaging and inter-user communication features. I wrote the message conversation view and associated message sending and storage.

Brooklyn, Ny

Added analytics tracking for user behavior to Dragon Brush, a storybook app for iPad. Coded custom controls and in-game aesthetics for Disneyland Explorer. I wrote the app Bean, a virtual counting assistant.