Open to remote work and relocation

Senior software engineer building iOS products and reliable AI applications.

I have 5+ years of experience shipping production software and leading engineering teams across mobile, web, and backend systems. My work combines established iOS expertise with a growing focus on structured LLM systems, retrieval, evaluation, and production AI services.

Spookling
Receipty
RaceMe
Revera AI
Sellou

One engineering career across mobile, web, backend, and AI systems.

5+years shipping production software
5engineers led
99.9%+crash-free delivery
3 surfacesmobile, web, and backend ownership

Selected work · AI and iOS

Explore the work behind reliable digital products.

Whether you’re hiring an engineer or looking for a freelance partner, explore selected AI and iOS work, the decisions behind it, and results delivered.

Experience

Growing scope, grounded in shipped work.

From iOS engineering and team leadership to product ownership across AI, web, and backend, each step expands the surface area without changing the standard for reliability.

08/2025 — Present

Product Engineer — AI Applications

Sellou · AI Product Studio

United States · Remote

  • Built Spookling's iOS and web apps for AI chat, calendar workflows, and browser-based coding.
  • Integrated SSE streaming and connected LLM tool calls to native EventKit calendar actions.
  • Built workspace and direct-message APIs with AppSync, Lambda, DynamoDB, and OpenSearch.

02/2025 — 08/2025

Senior iOS Engineer / iOS Tech Lead

Sellou · Consumer App Studio

United States · Remote

  • Progressed to leading the iOS team and introduced CI/CD workflows that cut release cycle time by 50%.
  • Cut playback startup by 40% with AVKit/HLS and initial download size by 20% with On-Demand Resources.

02/2024 — 02/2025

iOS Team Lead

Iomob · B2B Mobility-as-a-Service Platform

Barcelona, Spain · Remote

  • Led five iOS engineers delivering LNER and BrightBike while sustaining crash-free delivery above 99.9%.
  • Added Stripe tokenization to LNER, cutting checkout below eight seconds and trip-planning latency by 35%.

02/2021 — 02/2024

iOS Engineer

Iomob · B2B Mobility-as-a-Service Platform

Barcelona, Spain · Remote

  • Built the mobility SDK used in Ford and Renfe integrations, reducing integration time from weeks to under two days.
  • Normalized data from more than 10 providers and raised core SDK test coverage above 90%.
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About

Senior judgment across more than one stack.

Senior software engineer with 5+ years shipping production software and leading engineering teams. I build across iOS, web, and backend systems, with a current focus on reliable AI applications and the evaluation systems that make them trustworthy.

B.S. Computer Science · University of Debrecen2017 — 2020Graduated first in cohort · Fully funded scholarshipDebrecen, Hungary

AI applications & backend

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Pydantic
  • Structured outputs
  • RAG
  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • AWS

iOS & Apple platforms

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • UIKit
  • Swift Concurrency
  • EventKit
  • WatchConnectivity
  • AVKit
  • Live Activities

Reliability, evaluation & delivery

  • pytest
  • XCTest
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Prompt A/B tests
  • Recall@k & MRR
  • Latency & cost tracking
  • Production observability

Roles and freelance projects

Need an engineer to strengthen your team or move a product forward?

I’m open to senior iOS and AI application engineering roles, as well as selected freelance projects. Based in Egypt and available for remote work or relocation, I’d be glad to hear what you’re building.