Aaron L'Heureux

I work on a team building app-secific features across the Amazon shopping app. Because of the broad mandate I work with Swift and SwiftUI and Combine but also Obj-C and KVO and Autolayout and occasionally with the react native bridge and our webview bridge.

Participated in the Mobile Engineering Council, Swift Reviewers, and managed release management for Dropbox's mobile apps.

Technical lead on Camera Upload/Backup.

• Drove engineering decision review and technical architecture for a 12-18 month rewrite from C++ to Swift that is currently in internal testing
• Uses SQLite and RxSwift to power a four stage pipeline to discover assets; enumerate types; process, hash, and persist data; and then upload it to Dropbox
• Worked with a team of two other iOS engineers and consulted on decision making for the Android rewrite

Other projects include: app-agnostic Background Tasks and Background Fetch coordinators, offline support for cloud-based files, and a flexible file hashing utility using CryptoKit and CommonCrypto.

Swift and Objective-C development across all areas of the Imgur app.

• Favorite Folders (API, models, UI) - categorization and storage of saved posts
• Login and Registration (UI, state management) - complete rewrite alongside branding update supporting multiple third parties and A/B testing
• UNUserNotificationCenter migration
• UIPageViewController interstitial insertion system
• Integration and configuration of multiple new ad products - external SDKs and optimized ad loading management

Modern mobile website from the ground up.

• ES6/7, React, Redux, Node, isomorphic components

Worked on Amazon UI, the underlying UI component platform for the Amazon retail website.

• Created and supported reusable UI components for use by all retail website teams
• Lead on mobile Internet Explorer support / integration of Pointer Events and touch/mouse hybrid input
• Accessibility support for VoiceOver, JAWS, NVDA for various components
• Speaker at internal developer conference: WebDevCon

Full stack web development and application development with Adobe AIR

• Lead developer on the Bostonia Magazine online redesign and CMS enhancements
• Sole developer on a cross-platform Windows/OS X/iOS presentation application for Admissions using Adobe AIR
• Development on multiple award-winning design features

Full stack web development including extensive Actionscript 3

Color Inspector names colors by a generalized family name and a specific color name. It averages the pixels in an adjustable focal frame and converts them to Lab color space for a more accurate color comparison. The underlying data structure / algorithm is a nearest neighbor search through a k-d tree.

Featured on the front page and the Utilities category page of the Japan App Store. Written in Objective-C.