iOS designer & engineer
2013 - 2014Canadian Society For Aesthetic Plastic Surgery- Designed and engineered native iPhone and iPad video streaming client, using Obj-C.
- Designed and engineered API server, for encrypted video streaming with secure access control, using AWS, Clojure, nginx.
- Localized database and all UI for French and English.
- Built suite of command-line tools for system administration(Obj-C).
- Implemented AirPlay, encrypted video, hardened in-app security assets, password hashing.
- Developed scripts for automated deployment on AWS.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), NGINX, Clojure, Objective-C, iOSSenior Engineer
2011 - 2013McKinsey & Co- Led iOS engineering team on an in-house portfolio app, for displaying and contextualizing web apps, used by senior management in pitch meetings with Fortune 500 clients.
- Led iOS engineering team on in-house portfolio app, used to represent McKIinsey's software skills, highlighted as exemplary by the CTO.
- Designed and engineered a survey-taking app, using a direction manipulation interface to drive user engagement.
- Built a customized Xcode build system, using a single-page JS web app to allow business users to request à la carte builds.
- Designed and engineered rapid prototype of a workflow management iPhone app for construction sites.
Technologies: Java, JavaScript, iOSPostdoctoral research fellow
2010 - 2012London Institute for Mathematical Sciences- Used Common Lisp and Mathematica for data extraction and analysis of thermodynamic model of wikipedia article evolution.
- Used Mathematica and C++ for evolutionary research on random walks in hypercubes.
- Performed analytical mathematical research into hypercube walks.
- Created re-usable MMA library for graph theory research (still used in Stanford).
- Researched organismic evolvability.
Technologies: C++, Lisp, MathematicaSenior C++ Risk Engineer
2009 - 2011Deutsche Bank- Performed analysis and implementation of pricing logic for convertibility risk on Brazillian FX swaps.
- Created numerous enhancements to proprietary C++ trade capture tools.
- Performed analysis and implementation of pricing and risking logic for FXGamma.
- Coordinated with front-office traders and middle office settlements.
- Created enhancements on analytic, StochVol, and MC pricing systems.
Technologies: Option Pricing, SQL, C++PhD
2003 - 2009Oxford University- Invented genospace algebra, a graph-theoretical propositional calculus for analyzing organismic evolvability.
- Developed conceptual unification of types of evolvability (trait, individual, organismic).
- Created diagrams and proof system for calculating evolvability.
- Implemented genospace algebra using Python graph search.
- Created a novel algorithm for searching for connected clusters in genospaces.
Technologies: Graph Theory, Calculus, Mathematics, Python
Alexis Gallagher
Software Developer in San Francisco, CA, United States
Member since May 16, 2014
Alexis is a senior iOS engineer, who loves intuitive, beautiful UI. He is a back end engineer, UX designer, loves mathematics and theater. He is highly creative, collaborative, reliable, with professional experience in numerous areas (science, finance, etc.). And a scientist by training.
Alexis is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Canadian Society For Aesthetic Plastic SurgeryAmazon Web Services (AWS), NGINX, Clojure, Objective-C, iOS
- McKinsey & CoJava, JavaScript, iOS
- London Institute for Mathematical SciencesC++, Lisp, Mathematica
Experience
- Emacs 16 years
- Objective-C 4 years
- Clojure 3 years
- Swift 1 year
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, Emacs, Xcode, Linux, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've invented is a mathematical formalism for analyzing and describing the evolvability of organisms.
Employment
Experience
- Evolvability: A Formal Approachhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/4819e6fkuh455yx/AlexisGallagherDPhil.pdf?dl=0
My PhD dissertation addresses the question: What are the logical requirements that need to be in place for evolution by natural selection to produce complex life? It develops a novel mathematical formalism to treat rigorously an area that had been covered mainly through verbal speculation. It also touches on many interesting questions, such as whether there is likely to be life on other planets, or life evolved within a computer.
- CSAPS Video Library
This app is used by hundreds of cosmetic surgeons in Canada to browse and watch encrypted streaming videos of plastic surgeries so they can maintain their medical skills. It has high security requirements, a high-polish design, and a custom back-end. It is also localized in French and English, implements AirPlay, and more.
- McKinsey and Company
I led the development of two portfolio apps used by McKinsey & Co. to sell its software services. These codebases have been forked and reused within the firm dozens of times, so that this work is now used globally in elite business settings around the world. However, because of the firm's confidentiality requirements, I can only present this work in a controlled environment where I can offer a sanitized demonstration. (Sorry!)
Skills
Languages
Swift, Objective-C, Clojure, JavaScript, Java, Lisp, Python, C++, Common Lisp (CL), SQLFrameworks
CherryPyTools
Xcode, Emacs, Mathematica, NGINX, Adobe Photoshop, Git, SketchParadigms
Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Object-oriented Design (OOD), App Development, Agile Software DevelopmentPlatforms
iOS, MacOS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)Other
Scientific Computing, Nagare, Software Development, Remote Work, CubicWeb, Offshore Development, Scientific Software Developer, Remote Developer, Option Pricing, Mathematics, Calculus, Graph TheoryStorage
PostgreSQL
Education
- PhD Degree in Mathematical Biology2003 - 2009Oxford University - Oxford
- BA (Honors) Degree in Physics1994 - 1998Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
