Hi there! I'm Afees Lawal, a Senior iOS Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and shipping consumer and fintech mobile products across full-time and contract roles. I have deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, RxSwift, Combine, GraphQL, testing, CI/CD, analytics instrumentation, SDKs, and platform infrastructure. I also enjoy shaping architecture, improving developer velocity, and delivering polished experiences for remote-first teams. I love building robust platform layers used by other engineers, modernizing architectures, and empowering teams to move fast while keeping quality high. I'm excited to continue crafting delightful mobile experiences and mentoring others along the way.

Afees Lawal

Hi there! I'm Afees Lawal, a Senior iOS Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and shipping consumer and fintech mobile products across full-time and contract roles. I have deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, RxSwift, Combine, GraphQL, testing, CI/CD, analytics instrumentation, SDKs, and platform infrastructure. I also enjoy shaping architecture, improving developer velocity, and delivering polished experiences for remote-first teams. I love building robust platform layers used by other engineers, modernizing architectures, and empowering teams to move fast while keeping quality high. I'm excited to continue crafting delightful mobile experiences and mentoring others along the way.

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Hi there! I’m Afees Lawal, a Senior iOS Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and shipping consumer and fintech mobile products across full-time and contract roles. I have deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, RxSwift, Combine, GraphQL, testing, CI/CD, analytics instrumentation, SDKs, and platform infrastructure. I also enjoy shaping architecture, improving developer velocity, and delivering polished experiences for remote-first teams.

I love building robust platform layers used by other engineers, modernizing architectures, and empowering teams to move fast while keeping quality high. I’m excited to continue crafting delightful mobile experiences and mentoring others along the way.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior iOS Engineer at League
August 1, 2021 - Present
Built and shipped major patient-facing features for the PC Health app, including work on the GetCare experience. Transitioned from PC Health feature development into SDK and platform infrastructure ownership, building and maintaining shared mobile systems used across the organization and by multiple tenant applications powered by League’s SDKs. Helped build an in-house analytics tracker comparable to Segment to support product instrumentation, event collection, and internal tracking needs at scale. Contributed to architectural improvements and modularization efforts that made the iOS codebase and shared infrastructure easier to test, maintain, and extend. Improved developer experience and engineering velocity by strengthening the platform layer that internal teams and external tenant implementations depend on for reliable product delivery.
Senior iOS Engineer (Contract) at Kickstarter, PBC
January 1, 2021 - July 1, 2021
Refactored a large legacy analytics surface to support Segment migration and reduce redundancy across the tracking stack. Updated and stabilized unit tests around analytics changes to preserve confidence during a high-risk migration. Helped design and ship comment threading, including posting, retry flows for failed comments, and GraphQL-powered comment loading.
Lead iOS Engineer (Contract) at gomoney
September 1, 2019 - January 1, 2021
Joined as one of the first two hires and helped take the product from MVP to private beta and public App Store release. Led iOS delivery for a digital banking app that reached 7,000+ downloads after launch. Improved CI/CD workflows and reduced PR check times from roughly 40 minutes to 20 minutes or less. Introduced recurring team grooming sessions to improve engineering and product alignment.
iOS Engineer at Hollaport Technologies Limited
September 1, 2018 - August 1, 2019
Led a major refactor from MVC to MVVM, adding unit and snapshot tests to improve maintainability and release confidence. Defined and enforced code style standards with SwiftLint to raise code quality across the team. Introduced Bitrise and improved the delivery pipeline and day-to-day developer tooling.
iOS Developer (Contract) at Rom-Flex Network Limited
March 1, 2017 - August 1, 2018
Built custom iOS applications for internal products and client engagements. Delivered rich custom user interfaces and collaborated with Android engineers on shared cross-platform logic using Djinni. Contributed to e-commerce and consumer mobile app projects across multiple product teams.
Mobile Developer at TM30 Global Limited
January 1, 2016 - February 1, 2017
Built Android and iOS applications that aggregated personalized news and events from multiple sources. Developed an internal point-tracking application backed by Firebase with offline support.
Senior iOS Engineer at League Inc
August 1, 2021 - Present
Built and shipped major patient-facing features for the PCH Health app, including work on the GetCare experience. Transitioned into SDK and platform infrastructure ownership, building shared mobile systems used across multiple tenant applications powered by League's SDKs. Helped build an in-house analytics tracker comparable to Segment to support product instrumentation, event collection, and internal tracking needs at scale. Contributed to architectural improvements and modularization efforts that made the iOS codebase and shared infrastructure easier to test, maintain, and extend. Strengthened the platform layer that internal teams and external tenant implementations depend on, improving developer experience and engineering velocity.
iOS Engineer at Holllaport Technologies Limited
September 1, 2018 - August 1, 2019
Led a major refactor from MVP to MVVM, adding unit and snapshot tests to improve maintainability and release confidence. Defined and enforced code style standards with SwiftLint. Introduced Bitrise and improved the delivery pipeline and day-to-day developer tooling.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at National Open University of Nigeria
September 1, 2016 - July 1, 2022
Diploma in Computer Science at Yaba College of Technology
November 1, 2012 - December 1, 2015
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at National Open University of Nigeria
September 1, 2016 - July 1, 2022
Higher National Diploma in Computer Science at Yaba College of Technology
November 1, 2012 - December 1, 2015

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Professional Services