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Senior iOS & AI Applications Engineer | Swift, RAG Systems, ARKit

Porto, Portugal
Worldwide
BS Software Engineering
Porto, Portugal
Worldwide
BS Software Engineering

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Fardan Akhter Resume.pdf

About me

Senior iOS & AI Engineer with 10+ years of experience in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and AI-powered mobile apps. Experienced with Gemma/Qwen LLMs, RAG systems, TTS avatars, ARKit facial tracking, AVFoundation, and real-time audio/media integrations.

RAGGitHub ActionsLLMA/B TestingApple IOSApple XcodeObjective-C (Programming Language)UikitPostmanSwiftuiPrompt EngineeringIos FrameworksSwift (Programming Language)Audio StreamingGoogle FirebaseGitCocoapodsFigmaRestful ApiXctest
Mobile Development
  1. Swift
  2. SwiftUI
  3. UIKit
  4. Objective-C
  5. iOS Development
  6. iPadOS
  7. Apple Ecosystem Development
AI & LLM Engineering
  1. Large Language Models (LLMs)
  2. Gemma
  3. Qwen
  4. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  5. On-device AI
  6. AI Integration
  7. Prompt Engineering
  8. AI Mobile Applications
Speech & Avatar Systems
  1. Text-to-Speech (TTS)
  2. Voice Cloning
  3. Phoneme Synchronization
  4. AI Avatars
  5. Real-Time Lip Sync
  6. Blender Avatars
  7. ARKit Facial Tracking
Media & Audio
  1. AVFoundation
  2. Audio Streaming
  3. Audio Routing
  4. Bluetooth Audio
  5. AirPlay
  6. Local Network Protocols
  7. Real-Time Media Processing
Architecture & Backend
  1. REST APIs
  2. Firebase
  3. JSON
  4. Async/Await
  5. MVVM
  6. Clean Architecture
  7. Python Backend Integration
  8. Flask APIs
Tools & Platforms
  1. Xcode
  2. Git
  3. Fastlane
  4. TestFlight
  5. App Store Connect
  6. Blender

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2019

Languages

GermanBasic knowledgeEnglishFluentPortugueseGood

Project history

iOS Developer (Freelancer)

Upwork
Freelance iOS development on Upwork, earning the Top Rated Plus badge with a job success score above 90 for over 18 months, ranking in the top 5% of talents. 93% of clients would recommend for future work.

Sr iOS Engineer

Drop In for Fortnite
Worked as Sr iOS Engineer using AVKit, UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine, CocoaPods, SPM, Firebase, and Trello.

Sr iOS Engineer

John Jacobs
Worked as Sr iOS Engineer using UIKit, Firebase, CocoaPods, Git, REST APIs, JSON, MVVM, JIRA, Slack, and SourceTree.

iOS Developer

World Table Tennis
Worked as iOS Developer using Amazon Appsync, Firebase, Swagger, RestFul APIs, R.swift, CocoaPods, xcframework, MVVM, and Azure Active Dir B2C.

Senior iOS Engineer

Lenskart Solutions
Integrated mobile applications with backend services to improve user experience by 25%. Maintained app features achieving 98% crash-free users. Advised team members on best practices for development and distribution using schemes for managing build configurations.

iOS Developer

Pumpjack Dataworks
Designed and developed iOS native apps for iPhones, implementing features such as real-time match updates, live streaming, and payment gateways including Ticketmaster. Reduced development time by 10% by converting boilerplate code into importable xcframeworks and introduced CI/CD pipelines using Travis CI and GitHub Actions.

Certificates

Claude 101

Claude by Anthropic

2026

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