I'm a Senior iOS Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable iOS apps in fintech, healthcare, and media. I care about quality, clarity, and building maintainable systems, and I thrive in teams where engineers, designers, and product managers collaborate closely. I enjoy collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers, and I have spent significant time modernizing codebases, introducing iOS patterns, and helping teams ship features with confidence. I care about quality, clarity, and building things that are easy to maintain long after they are released.

Mian Waqas Umar

I'm a Senior iOS Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable iOS apps in fintech, healthcare, and media. I care about quality, clarity, and building maintainable systems, and I thrive in teams where engineers, designers, and product managers collaborate closely. I enjoy collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers, and I have spent significant time modernizing codebases, introducing iOS patterns, and helping teams ship features with confidence. I care about quality, clarity, and building things that are easy to maintain long after they are released.

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I’m a Senior iOS Engineer with 9+ years of experience building scalable iOS apps in fintech, healthcare, and media. I care about quality, clarity, and building maintainable systems, and I thrive in teams where engineers, designers, and product managers collaborate closely.

I enjoy collaborating with engineers, designers, and product managers, and I have spent significant time modernizing codebases, introducing iOS patterns, and helping teams ship features with confidence. I care about quality, clarity, and building things that are easy to maintain long after they are released.

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Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior iOS Engineer at Apps Technologies GmbH
February 1, 2023 - July 1, 2025
Developed and maintained complex iOS applications using UIKit and SwiftUI, serving millions of daily active users across multiple newspaper brands. Refactored a tightly coupled legacy codebase into Swift Packages, reducing build times by ~30% and improving developer productivity. Migrated asynchronous code to Swift Concurrency, improving thread safety and UI responsiveness. Implemented caching strategies, asynchronous rendering and background processing, achieving up to 20% faster content load times. Maintained and optimized CI/CD pipelines (Fastlane, GitLab CI) to support parallel development and frequent releases with minimal risk. Assisted in feature planning by reviewing specs early, identifying edge cases and aligning implementations with long-term scalability. Worked across multiple apps and architectures, balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction and code quality improvements. Collaborated closely with product managers, designers, QA and backend teams to deliver c
iOS Developer for Accessibility at Coursera Inc.
April 1, 2022 - November 1, 2022
Implemented a Unit Test framework to catch accessibility issues in UIKit and SwiftUI early in development and integrated it with CI/CD to ensure new features were free of accessibility bugs. Configured the CI/CD environment to run accessibility checks and static analysis tools on every pull request, acting as a crucial step in the continuous delivery process.
Senior iOS Developer at Darvis Inc.
November 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022
Played a pivotal role in product strategy by collaborating with product owners and project managers to define and refine feature specifications, directly influencing product roadmaps and innovation. Managed seaml ess app distribution via Jamf MDM and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure and automated deployments across hundreds of managed devices for AI-powered health care inventory management. Collaborated with product managers and designers to ensure pixel-perfect UIs and seamless UX across devices, including support for dynamic type, accessibility, and localization.
Mobile App Developer - iOS at Evamp & Sanga Private Ltd
March 1, 2018 - July 1, 2019
Developed and shipped multiple iOS applications to the App Store from scratch, contributed to existing projects for new features and bug fixes. Wrote clean, maintainable, well-tested code in Swift and Objective-C, reducing post-release bug reports and accelerating debugging cycles. Collaborated with designers and backend developers for smooth API integration, consistent UI/UX, and timely delivery of app milestones. Set up CI/CD pipelines using Fastlane, automating build, testing, and deployment processes, cutting release time by over a third. Worked on 5+ apps across different domains.
iOS Developer at JadooTV Inc.
October 1, 2015 - March 1, 2018
Contributed to the development of a JadooGo iOS live streaming app, focusing on bug fixes, feature enhancements, and UI adjustments. Transformed the app's networking layer by migrating from NSURLConnection to NSURLSession, rewritten existing XML/JSON parsers, and implemented a caching mechanism to improve API call processing time by 50% for a better user experience.

Education

Master of Applied Science – Computer Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2015

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Financial Services, Professional Services

Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate

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