About

I'm a Senior iOS Engineer with 12+ years of experience operating at Staff-level technical scope — owning mobile architecture, technical decisions, and mentoring engineers across fintech and large-scale delivery platforms. I currently serve as Mobile Architect at the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK).

My career spans building products from early-stage startup through acquisition and scaling within global organizations — including Carriage (acquired by Delivery Hero for 200M+ EUR), Tap Payments, Glovo, and Tatayab. I specialize in SDUI, clean architecture, modularization, CI/CD modernization, and measurable impact on stability and cost reduction.

Based in Kuwait City and open to relocation (Dubai, EU, UK, Riyadh). BSc in Computer Science (2012). Estonian E-Residency (2024).

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Experience

1. Jan 2024 — Present

   Senior Software Engineer – iOS | Mobile Architect

   National Bank of Kuwait (NBK)

   • Own mobile architecture and technical decisions across multiple iOS initiatives at Staff-level scope.
   • Lead and mentor 4 iOS engineers, resulting in 2 successful promotions; frequently lead the full mobile team.
   • Led migration from legacy SOAP/XML UI rendering to modern RESTful backend-driven UI (SDUI).
   • Improved crash-free sessions from 96% to 99.8% and replaced paid SDKs with in-house solutions, saving 500,000+ USD.

   • Swift
   • SDUI
   • Clean Architecture
   • Modularization
   • CI/CD
   • REST

2. Aug 2023 — Dec 2023

   Senior Software Engineer – iOS (Contract)

   Tatayab

   • Led mobile (iOS) and backend teams, aligning technical direction across platforms.
   • Drove API optimization initiatives, reducing response time by ~30%.
   • Improved iOS architecture to reduce technical debt and support future scalability.

   • Swift
   • API Design
   • Performance

3. Nov 2022 — May 2023

   Senior Software Engineer – iOS

   Glovo Barcelona, Spain

   • Contributed to a unicorn-scale delivery platform serving millions of users.
   • Revamped store and product modules into a fully backend-driven UI (SDUI).
   • Modularized a previously monolithic product details module and designed multi-type product specification flows.

   • Swift
   • RxSwift
   • MVVM-C
   • SDUI
   • A/B Testing

4. Mar 2020 — Aug 2022

   Senior Software Engineer – iOS

   Tap Payments

   • Designed and built iOS payment SDKs used by hundreds of merchants, processing 4M+ USD in real-world transactions.
   • Owned SDK architecture and modularization; led ~15% response-time improvements.
   • Built a React Native payment plugin backed by native iOS SDKs.

   • Swift
   • Objective-C
   • Combine
   • React Native
   • SDK Architecture

   GoCollect on the App Store →

5. Feb 2016 — Feb 2020

   Senior iOS Engineer → iOS Lead / Mobile Lead

   Carriage Co. | Delivery Hero

   • Early iOS hire; helped establish the mobile platform from startup through a 200M+ EUR acquisition within 11 months.
   • Built the consumer iOS app from scratch, scaling to 300K+ monthly active users.
   • Defined mobile architecture and tracking systems; led post-acquisition integration with Delivery Hero.

   • Swift
   • Objective-C
   • MVVM-C
   • Firebase
   • Adjust
   • Braze

   Carriage on the App Store →

Earlier roles: iOS Engineer at Future Communications Co., BinaryWaves Co., and Junior iOS Engineer at Tawasol IT Co. (2012–2016).

Skills

Writing

• Jan 2026 Designing a Subscription System That Doesn’t Break at Scale (Mobile + Backend) How to design subscription flows that stay reliable across mobile clients and backend systems as usage grows. ↗
• Oct 2024 Creating an Animated Word Splash Screen in SwiftUI Building a polished splash experience with SwiftUI animations as the first visual interaction in an app. ↗
• Oct 2024 Understanding Swift’s defer Statement: Order of Execution A practical look at how defer works in Swift and how execution order affects cleanup and control flow. ↗
• Jan 2024 Floating Action View with Multiple Action Buttons in SwiftUI Implementing a floating action pattern with expandable secondary actions using SwiftUI. ↗
• May 2023 Lightweight Login Form Validator using Combine Building a reactive login form validator with Combine for clean, declarative validation logic. ↗
• May 2023 Lightweight Login Form Validator using RxSwift Implementing login form validation with RxSwift for reactive programming on iOS. ↗
• Feb 2022 Clean & Reusable Networking Layer with Combine and Generics Designing a reusable networking layer using Combine and generics for maintainable iOS apps. ↗

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