I am an iOS developer with 15 years of experience, driven by results and committed to quality coding practices. I enjoy building strong teams and actively promote open collaboration with product teams, designers, and engineering peers to deliver efficient, high-quality products. Throughout my career, I have developed expertise in Swift, Objective C, and several other technologies, continuously improving legacy code and optimizing performance. I thrive in dynamic environments, handling on-call duties, and leveraging modern tools to enhance user experience and application reliability.

Alex Shive

I am an iOS developer with 15 years of experience, driven by results and committed to quality coding practices. I enjoy building strong teams and actively promote open collaboration with product teams, designers, and engineering peers to deliver efficient, high-quality products. Throughout my career, I have developed expertise in Swift, Objective C, and several other technologies, continuously improving legacy code and optimizing performance. I thrive in dynamic environments, handling on-call duties, and leveraging modern tools to enhance user experience and application reliability.

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I am an iOS developer with 15 years of experience, driven by results and committed to quality coding practices. I enjoy building strong teams and actively promote open collaboration with product teams, designers, and engineering peers to deliver efficient, high-quality products.

Throughout my career, I have developed expertise in Swift, Objective C, and several other technologies, continuously improving legacy code and optimizing performance. I thrive in dynamic environments, handling on-call duties, and leveraging modern tools to enhance user experience and application reliability.

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Work Experience

iOS Lead at Walmart Global Tech
August 1, 2025 - August 18, 2025
Led a team of native and web developers to create reusable and optimized ReactJS components. Managed on-call responsibilities using Grafana dashboards to identify and fix issues during peak holiday events and app updates. Improved page load speeds by 20% through legacy code optimization and raised automated test coverage by 10% through new tests.
iOS Senior Developer at Blue Shield of California
December 1, 2022 - August 18, 2025
Integrated Apple Wallet for automatic payment processing and improved development speed by 20% by migrating legacy Objective C code to Swift. Increased page view rendering efficiency with reusable components and logging via Splunk. Enhanced site speed by 10-20% using 3rd party APIs with IBM WCM and AWS caching.
iOS Developer at Intuit
February 1, 2017 - August 18, 2025
Optimized mobile browser performance by 50% based on analytics. Developed a Chrome extension integrating QuickBooks with Google Calendar for automated time entries. Created reusable components integrated with Adobe CQ5 CMS and implemented a shared library system for developers using React.
Web Developer at eTouch
December 1, 2014 - August 18, 2025
Collaborated with designers and development teams to update the member dashboard using AngularJS. Built Velocity email templates verified with Omniture tracking analytics for marketing. Maintained an HTML site editor framework used in Homestead.com.

Education

Bachelor of Arts at California State, East Bay, Hayward, CA
June 1, 2007 - June 1, 2011

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail

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