Toptal — Senior iOS Developer · Remote
Aug 2021 — Present
Staff-level iOS delivery for demanding product teams, from fast-moving startups to Fortune 500s — setting technical direction, resolving ambiguous problems, and turning architecture into safe, fast execution. Selected work:
Selected Impact
- 0→1 technical ownership: Sole iOS engineer on the first version of a now-famous music app (under NDA) — defined the SwiftUI architecture, delivery practices, and CI/CD; shipped a 4.8★ launch with 7.9k reviews and helped build the in-house iOS team.
- Platform architecture: Co-architected a chat SDK handling 10M+ requests/month — backend-driven UI on a shared Rust core (UniFFI → Swift + Kotlin): interface changes ship without app releases, iOS/Android parity by construction.
- Security & fraud: Shut down a promo-fraud attack on a reverse-engineered API — App Attest with per-request Secure Enclave assertions on money endpoints, Play Integrity in lockstep; redemptions returned to baseline.
- Performance forensics: Root-caused a 4× cold-start regression to an SDK opening a socket before
main(); restored launch under budget and built a CI launch-budget gate metering every dependency’s pre-main cost.
- Architecture & migration: Unified three ad-hoc deep-link entry points into one headless, unit-testable routing engine via a strangler-fig migration; a server-driven route manifest let marketing ship campaign links with no app release.
Selected Projects
- Music Generation App (under NDA) — Sole iOS engineer on the first SwiftUI version, shipped 0→1 to the App Store (4.8★, 7.9k reviews). Defined core architecture, CI/CD, and development guidelines; helped interview and stand up the in-house iOS team.
- Scrybe — Music Streaming App — Sole iOS engineer on a full revamp: set the visual direction and built a multi-tier StoreKit subscription model (song/album/artist) with robust entitlement handling; GitHub Actions CI/CD.
- ASAPP (New York) — SDK engineer on a high-scale chat platform (10M+ req/mo); co-architected backend-driven UI on a shared Rust core (UniFFI → Swift + Kotlin) — enterprise flows ship server-side, no app release, frozen SDK versions degrade safely; owned Rust symbolication in the iOS crash pipeline; refined CircleCI pipelines.
- Private Social App (London) — chat and feed modules with offline-first capabilities.
campus.build — Founder & Tech Head · Bangalore
Oct 2019 — Dec 2020
- Founded and built the product and operating model across 12+ engineering colleges and a 6,000+ student community.
- Set product direction; owned UI/UX in Sketch and led the Node.js backend and admin tooling.
Infrrd Technologies — Mobile Lead · Bangalore
Jan 2017 — Oct 2019
- Led a 12-member iOS + Android team across SDK and app work; set technical direction and delivery standards.
- Shipped bill-capture and ID-document SDKs (OpenCV — edge/perspective correction, glare & blur detection, OCR extraction with real-time guidance).
- Standardized architecture and CI/CD; built a graduate training pipeline that tripled delivery capacity.