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Alexander K.

Senior iOS Engineer | Swift & SwiftUI | 15 Years | Ex-Meta, Ex-Amazon

Mountain View, California
$150 per hour
16 jobs
$100K+ total earnings

Senior iOS engineer with 15 years of native iOS experience, currently at Meta (Facebook App iOS) where I own performance metrics across billions of daily active users. My work spans metric-driven performance investigations, regression root-cause analysis, on-call production engineering, and AI-agentic tooling that automates performance analysis at scale. Before Meta: Senior/Lead iOS engineer at Amazon/Ring (hardware-connected consumer product), Citizen (safety app, TCA/SwiftUI architecture migration), Woosh (audio messenger, built from scratch), DraftKings (SDK development), and multiple startup teams over 15 years. I also build independently: Sky107 (sky107.app) is a solo-built FAA Part 107 exam prep app I shipped end-to-end -- modular Swift Package architecture, SwiftUI + TCA, Swift 6.1 with modern concurrency, live on the App Store. Deep expertise in Swift (2018-present), Objective-C (2011-present), UIKit, SwiftUI, TCA, performance optimization, and architecture for large codebases. I take on consulting work selectively -- 0-to-1 builds, architecture modernization, and performance engineering for teams that need iOS done right.

Jake S.

iOS Developer

Sacramento, California
$60 per hour
5 jobs
$10K+ total earnings

I'm an iOS developer and UI/UX designer experienced in building products from the concept to completion. Whether you need help developing an entire app, a feature for an app, or just some UI/UX design, I'd love to help out. - Expert in Swift & SwiftUI for native, fast product development - Experience with branding and visual design for beautiful + performant projects - Experience building app backends in Swift for full stack development - Experience with other programming languages like Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript for smaller tasks and scripts - Great communicator, flexible and quick to learn

Federico T.

iOS Engineer | Advanced Apple Debugging

Manhattan Beach, California
$35 per hour
2 jobs
$700+ total earnings

Software Engineer with 4+ years building and shipping production apps in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit. Strong foundation in software architecture and design patterns, enabling the creation of robust and scalable mobile applications. Experienced integrating backend services, payment systems, and third-party APIs in fast-paced startup environments. Skilled in iOS debugging and performance optimization with LLDB, DTrace, and Mach-O analysis.

Mark M.

iOS Software Developer

Temecula, California
$45 per hour
7 jobs
$7K+ total earnings

Are you looking for an experienced iOS engineer to build a high-performance iOS application from scratch, modernize an existing codebase, or take your designs seamlessly to the App Store? I am a Senior iOS Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on software development experience architecting, building, and scaling mobile applications for both fast-moving startups and enterprise platforms serving millions of active users (including CVS Health, DraftKings, and Masimo). Whether you need full lifecycle development from a blank Xcode project to the App Store or need to untangle and optimize an existing app, I focus on delivering clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested Swift and SwiftUI code.

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