Profile
Technical Lead with 9+ years in mobile application development, currently leading a cross-functional team of 12 iOS and backend developers at Etihad Airways. Owns the mobile roadmap end to end — technical direction and architecture, sprint and PI planning under SAFe Agile, code review and testing standards, release governance, and mentoring of engineers. Still a hands-on iOS developer day to day in Swift, UIKit and SwiftUI, with solid Android experience, and has embedded AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Claude) into the team's workflow. Comfortable operating as either a team lead or a senior hands-on developer, and known for shipping reliable, well-tested apps on time and building teams that do the same.
Work Experience
Technical Lead — Etihad Airways
Aug 2025 – Present · Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Led a cross-functional iOS and Backend team of 12 developers, owning the full mobile roadmap for the Etihad crew app (4,000+ users).
- Drove unit test coverage from 52% to 84% by establishing team-wide testing standards and embedding automated tests into the release pipeline.
- Delivered 95%+ of committed story points across 4 consecutive Program Increments under SAFe Agile.
- Eliminated recurring production crashes by making Sentry crash review a mandatory release gate — a zero-tolerance standard for known issues reaching production.
- Introduced and governed AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Claude): defined approved tools, prompting patterns, and a mandatory human-review gate aligned with airline data-security and code-ownership policy, and onboarded all 12 engineers through hands-on enablement.
- Applied Claude to unit-test authoring and legacy-code comprehension — a major contributor to the coverage gains above and to faster onboarding of developers new to the codebase.
Technical Analyst — Coforge FZ LLC (iOS Developer — Etihad Airways project)
Dec 2023 – Aug 2025 · Abu Dhabi, UAE
Official designation: Technical Analyst. Day-to-day responsibilities were focused entirely on iOS application development for Etihad Airways flight operations.
- Built and shipped iOS app for Etihad flight operations, used daily by 4,000+ staff at Abu Dhabi International Airport.
- Designed and implemented an offline-first data layer using Realm, eliminating data loss during network outages and reducing unnecessary server requests.
- Built device-to-device sync using Multipeer Connectivity, enabling crew coordination without an internet connection.
- Maintained 83% unit test coverage across all modules with tests fully integrated into the CI pipeline.
iOS & Android Developer — Neogenic Networks
Nov 2022 – Nov 2023 · Lahore, Pakistan
- Led mobile development across iOS and Android as the sole technical lead, enforcing SOLID principles, clean architecture, and rigorous code review standards.
- Implemented certificate pinning across iOS and Android, passing all external security penetration tests with zero findings.
- Integrated HealthKit (iOS) and Health Connect (Android) to deliver a clinically meaningful health monitoring experience — enabling disease risk prediction, biological age estimation, and long-term health trend tracking.
- Maintained a consistent App Store and Google Play release cadence across 4 apps with zero critical post-release incidents.
Senior iOS Developer — Jeux Developers
Oct 2020 – Apr 2022 · Lahore, Pakistan
- Delivered 4 iOS apps end-to-end and published to the App Store — each shipped on schedule within a 6-week sprint cycle.
- Migrated a legacy Objective-C codebase to Swift, cutting build time by 25% and resolving 60+ open crash reports.
- Fixed UI freeze issues using Grand Central Dispatch.
Junior iOS & Android Developer — Brains.ie
Jan 2018 – Sep 2020 · Dublin, Ireland (Remote)
- Independently built and published 2 iOS apps to the App Store, covering the full cycle from design to submission.
- Introduced Git branching and code review practices for a 3-person team, cutting merge conflicts in half within the first month.
Technical Skills
- Languages
- Swift, Kotlin, Java, Objective-C
- iOS Development
- UIKit, SwiftUI, Xcode, Instruments, Realm, HealthKit, Multipeer Connectivity
- Android Development
- Android Studio, Retrofit, Health Connect
- Architecture
- MVVM, MVC, SOLID Principles, TDD, Unit Testing (XCTest)
- Security
- Certificate Pinning, Alamofire, Secure API Communication
- AI Tools
- GitHub Copilot, Claude AI, Prompt Engineering, AI-assisted Testing
- Tools
- Git, Jira, Confluence, Sentry, Bitbucket, Postman, CI/CD
- Methodology
- SAFe Agile, Scrum, PI Planning
Education
B.Sc. Software Engineering — University of Gujrat, Pakistan
Oct 2013 – Feb 2018 · EQF Level 6
German Recognition — ZAB Statement of Comparability, Ref. LN2026/35216-1 (30 Jul 2026): Zeugnisbewertung issued by the Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen (Kultusministerkonferenz), assessed as equivalent to a German higher education degree at Bachelor level. Four-year full-time programme; University of Gujrat confirmed as a recognised higher education institution.
Languages
Urdu — Native · English — Professional Working Proficiency (C1)
