I'm Mehrdad Ahmadi, a Staff -level iOS Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling consumer mobile applications used by millions. I specialize in mobile platform architecture, Swift concurrency, and performance engineering, with a proven track record of technical ownership, cross-team influence, and mentorship. I am passionate about raising engineering standards through modular architecture, profiling, and pragmatic system design. I thrive on collaborating with product and design teams to deliver fast, reliable apps and reusable internal frameworks that reduce dependencies. I enjoy mentoring colleagues, driving best practices, and delivering robust solutions at scale.

Mehrdad Ahmadi

I'm Mehrdad Ahmadi, a Staff -level iOS Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling consumer mobile applications used by millions. I specialize in mobile platform architecture, Swift concurrency, and performance engineering, with a proven track record of technical ownership, cross-team influence, and mentorship. I am passionate about raising engineering standards through modular architecture, profiling, and pragmatic system design. I thrive on collaborating with product and design teams to deliver fast, reliable apps and reusable internal frameworks that reduce dependencies. I enjoy mentoring colleagues, driving best practices, and delivering robust solutions at scale.

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I’m Mehrdad Ahmadi, a Staff -level iOS Engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling consumer mobile applications used by millions. I specialize in mobile platform architecture, Swift concurrency, and performance engineering, with a proven track record of technical ownership, cross-team influence, and mentorship. I am passionate about raising engineering standards through modular architecture, profiling, and pragmatic system design.

I thrive on collaborating with product and design teams to deliver fast, reliable apps and reusable internal frameworks that reduce dependencies. I enjoy mentoring colleagues, driving best practices, and delivering robust solutions at scale.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Staff / Senior iOS Engineer at Giant Eagle
January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2026
Led and guided the migration of a legacy RxSwift codebase to Combine and SwiftUI, modernizing state management across retail iOS applications. Architected reusable internal frameworks to reduce external dependencies and improve maintainability. Optimized UI rendering to reduce loading times and improve responsiveness. Collaborated with teams to adopt modern Swift patterns and best practices during the migration.
Senior / Lead iOS Developer at Bell Canada
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2023
Designed and drove modularization across core features in MyBell, Virgin Plus, and Lucky Mobile (millions of users). Mentored junior and intermediate developers. Drove adoption of unit testing to improve release confidence and increasing code coverage. Architected reusable frameworks for JSON/XML data serialization and API integration.
Senior iOS Developer (Full-Stack) at Beauté Select
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2019
Designed and developed backend systems (Vapor) alongside iOS application for appointment booking platform. Architected scalable server-side solutions while building intuitive client-side experience.
iOS Developer at Cinco
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018
Improved legacy features and created reusable controls for ad-related applications. Designed macOS framework for remote control of Canon cameras over Bluetooth and Wifi. Integrated AVFoundation for video recording with facial recognition and real-time sticker overlays using Core Video pixel buffer parsing. Built interactive mini games with complex animations for promotional events including Festival d'été of Quebec, L'Oreal, Sephora, and Nitto. Architected peer-to-peer connectivity between macOS and iOS devices for data streaming.
Lead iOS Developer at Kish Cell Pars
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017
Built gift card shopping experience with seamless transaction flow and user engagement features, using a custom barcode scanner and Core NFC capabilities. Collaborated with design team on iOS application development using Adobe XD and Sketch.
Lead iOS Developer at Orchid Pharmed
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Developed Orchid Pharmed Business Intelligence (internal application) and Orchid Darbast apps in Objective-C and Swift. Built custom financial charts, real-time database integration with Realm, and a comprehensive unit testing framework. Architected Microsoft SharePoint extension for enterprise data sync.
Freelance iOS Developer at Various
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2017
Peeyade - Created iOS app for discovering scenic viewpoints using Google Maps with custom layers and views. Mamanpaz - Designed and developed a two-app platform for businesses and customers ordering home-made food, with Maps SDK integration and Core Data persistence. Musicema - Developed a music streaming app with download capability and B2B CMS integration. Fidibo - Built an e-pub reader from scratch using C++ and Objective-C, plus a hybrid WebView architecture with JavaScript styling for RTL/LTR support and a custom book library with metadata management.

Education

B.Eng. Software Engineering at Concordia University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2020

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Retail, Software & Internet, Telecommunications, Professional Services