alish

Senior I Os Developer

Senior iOS developer — 8+ years in software, 5+ full-time on iOS. Six apps shipped to the App Store, most from an empty Xcode project. Specialised in native SwiftUI, AI/LLM integrations, and subscription monetisation. Started out as a designer, so I cover UI/UX as well as engineering and work best owning a product end-to-end. All my experience is in remote work with startups in the US, Europe, and Dubai.


Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $100,000

Hourly rate: $50

Nationality: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

Residency: 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan


Experience

Senior iOS Developer
Tuesday
2024 - 2026
Sole iOS engineer: built the entire app from an empty Xcode project to launch — ~50k lines of SwiftUI. Result: 4.5★, live in three MLS regions with thousands of daily users. Shipped AI features to production: listing summaries and post drafting, streamed token-by-token over SSE into the UI. Map search with custom boundaries and clustering, listing feed, chat, voice search, six widgets, subscriptions. Stack: SwiftUI, MVVM, Combine + async/await, MapKit, WidgetKit, StoreKit 2 / RevenueCat.
Senior iOS Developer (contract)
TechWings
2023 - 2023
Contract iOS work on client products alongside my main role: new features, legacy refactoring and releases in Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit.
Senior iOS Developer
Hypelist
2023 - 2024
Core iOS developer on a social list-sharing app — featured by Apple in “Apps We Love”, 4.7★ with 400+ ratings. Built the daily-logging diary — calendar timeline, monthly and yearly stats — plus native sharing to Snapchat, TikTok and Facebook and maps via Google Places. Set up release automation with fastlane and Xcode Cloud.
Senior iOS Developer (contract)
Sonar
2023 - 2024
Real-time feed and chat on Firestore, native playback with MusicKit, Spotify API integration. Modular architecture in Swift Package Manager, with analytics and AI split into separate packages.
iOS Developer
Imania
2022 - 2023
Map-based dating app: live discovery with MapKit and Core Location, profile and chat screens, StoreKit subscriptions, App Store releases.
iOS Developer
GolfTrak
2021 - 2022
Built the app around a computer-vision core that measures ball speed, launch angle and spin from the iPhone camera alone. 4.3★, 250+ ratings. AVFoundation capture, real-time overlays, shot history and per-club stats, subscription paywalls. Also built ClubSpec, the companion app, single-handedly end to end.
Web Developer & Designer
Minty Solutions
2018 - 2020
Websites and web design for local clients — my first years in development, before moving to iOS full time.

Skills

ai
design
git
gpt
ios
mobile
prompt
swift
ui-ux-designer
english
russian