Sarah Ali Jaafar
Hi, I’m Sarah Ali, a seasoned iOS Team Lead and Senior Mobile Developer with a track record of delivering enterprise-grade apps across telecom and media.
About
Hi, I’m Sarah Ali, a seasoned iOS Team Lead and Senior Mobile Developer with a track record of delivering enterprise-grade apps across telecom and media. I’ve led distributed iOS teams, built and maintained 10 high-impact apps, and balanced hands-on development with product ownership, architecture decisions, and cross-functional collaboration.
I thrive in environments where I can take ownership, mentor junior developers, and ship reliable mobile experiences that users rely on every day. I’m known for driving app stability, clean architecture, and efficient release workflows, and I enjoy onboarding new teammates and aligning engineering efforts with business goals.
- 10 years' experience
- Joined September 2025
Industry experience
- Software & Internet
- Telecommunications
- Media & Entertainment
- Professional Services
More experts in Baghdad, Iraq
Work experience
Led a distributed iOS team of 5 developers delivering 10 enterprise iOS apps across telecom, media, and internal business systems. Responsibilities included code reviews, merge requests, GitLab and Jira-based workflows, pre-release stability, onboarding and mentoring, and coordinating with QA/test teams to ensure release readiness. Implemented scalable CI/CD and strong architecture best practices, and drove product ownership and cross-functional collaboration.
Led the iOS team in building and maintaining 10 enterprise iOS apps across telecom, media, and internal business systems. Drove app stability, clean architecture, and efficient development workflows. Provided mentoring to junior developers, supported onboarding, and aligned engineering efforts with business goals. Led the launch and updates of Enterprise Apps and implemented processes to streamline releases and improve onboarding.
Built an RSS feed app for the company’s newsletter website, including a live-channels streaming app experience. Designed and built a FTTH app for outdoor employees and supervisors, streamlined the workflow, and enabled access to important field resources (images uploaded directly from the field). Refactored major parts of a video-on-demand service to MVVM and created a more flexible UI.
Education
Graduated second top of my class
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