SUMMARY
- Staff-level iOS Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable mobile platforms and developer infrastructure. Specialized in modular architectures, SDK development, and Kotlin Multiplatform adoption at scale.
- Proven track record of leading cross-team technical initiatives, improving engineering velocity, and shaping mobile architecture for products serving millions of users.
SKILLS
iOS & Mobile
- Swift
- Objective-C
- UIKit
- SwiftUI
- Combine
- Concurrency
Architecture
- Modular Architecture
- MVVM
- Coordinator
- Clean Architecture
Kotlin Multiplatform
- Kotlin
- Ktor
- SQLDelight
- Shared Business Logic
- Swift Interop
Infrastructure
- CI/CD
- Build Systems
- Performance Optimization
- SDK Development
Other
- Python
- OpenCV
- Computer Vision
- Technical Liaison for Design Systems (since I was a designer before)
TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP
- Led cross-team architectural initiatives across mobile platforms
- Defined best practices for modularization and scalability
- Drove alignment between product, design, and engineering
EXPERIENCE
06/2022 - PRESENT
Role: Senior Software Engineer (Staff Track)
Customer: Careem (An Uber Company), Hamburg
Tasks:
- Technical Strategy: Defined and drove the mobile architecture roadmap for the core ride-hailing vertical within Careem?s Everything App, impacting millions of users across MENA.
- Modular Architecture & KMP: Led adoption of modularization and explored Kotlin Multiplatform to unify business logic across platforms, reducing feature development time and improving maintainability.
- Developer Infrastructure: Re-architected CI/CD pipelines, reducing build times by 32% and increasing deployment frequency across the mobile organization..
- Org-Level Impact: Influenced engineering practices across teams, leading architectural reviews and establishing scalable coding standards.
- Mentorship: Mentored engineers into senior roles and contributed to raising the overall technical bar within the organization.
05/2021 - 06/2022
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Customer: YogaEasy, Hamburg
Tasks:
- Performance Engineering: Led a complete ground-up revamp of the legacy iOS codebase, resulting in a 60% increase in app performance and a substantial reduction in crash rates.
- Product Strategy: Partnered with stakeholders to align technical debt reduction with business growth, ensuring the platform could scale to meet a growing community of practitioners.
01/2020 - 04/2021
Role: Mobile Engineer (SDK)
Customer: Smaato, Hamburg
Tasks:
- Low-Level Engineering: Developed and maintained the NextGen Ad-Tech SDK, focusing on low-latency execution and minimal binary size footprint.
- Cross-Platform Integration: Collaborated with global teams to ensure seamless SDK integration for third-party publishers, managing complex lifecycles and thread-safety in high-concurrency environments.
04/2017 - 12/2019
Role: Senior Software Engineer
Customer: VentureDive, Karachi
Tasks:
- Consultancy Leadership: Led mobile development for VistaJet, implementing best-practice design patterns (MVVM/Coordinator) to ensure high-availability for premium global aviation services.
01/2014 - 03/2017
Role: Software Engineer
Customer: Vozye, Karachi
Tasks:
- Transitioned from design to iOS engineering, delivering 4 production applications end-to-end, covering architecture, UI/UX, and deployment.