Mohammed Afsal
Senior iOS Engineer, building in Swift
12+ years shipping mobile products across government, travel, fintech and healthcare — from individual contributor to iOS Tech Lead. Apps I've built or led have crossed 5M+ downloads, running on Clean Architecture, MVVM and VIPER in production.
Currently building the travel super-app at Volindo.
I'm a Senior iOS Engineer based in Dubai, holding a UAE Golden Visa, with a career that spans government platforms, travel tech, fintech, healthcare and e-commerce. I've been the engineer trusted to take a product from its first screen to production at scale — and the lead trusted to mentor the next set of engineers doing the same.
At Abu Dhabi Digital Authority I led iOS architecture for TAMM, a national government services platform. Before that, at Digital14, I helped scale ALHOSN, the UAE's contact-tracing app, to over 5 million users. Today, at Volindo, I'm architecting map-driven itinerary and booking experiences for a Swift-based travel super-app.
My work is grounded in Clean Architecture, TDD and modular design — I care as much about a codebase's long-term health as I do about what ships this sprint.
12 years, one craft.
- Contributing to a Swift-based travel super-app spanning hotel booking, itinerary, social feed, notifications and trip companion modules, integrating gRPC/Protobuf across iOS, Android, backend, product and QA.
- Architected map-driven experiences with MapKit — drag-and-drop itinerary planning, waypoint sync and real-time UI state propagation via Combine.
- Owned the hotel booking flow: room selection, guest management, expiry timers and offline persistence with SwiftUI + Core Data.
- Established unit/integration coverage across untested modules using XCTest and Swift Testing, applying TDD to improve regression safety.
- Led iOS architecture for TAMM, a large-scale government services platform, implementing modular VIPER and defining the technical roadmap.
- Drove architectural decision-making for scalability and long-term maintainability across the team.
- Mentored junior iOS developers, raising team output and code quality.
- Implemented biometric authentication across the Homebase workforce management app.
- Migrated a legacy Objective-C VIPER codebase to Swift MVVM-C, improving maintainability and stability.
- Built banking onboarding with full Plaid SDK integration for financial account linking.
- Led development of HealthierU — appointment scheduling, medical report access and video consultations via Agora SDK.
- Wrote unit/integration tests and resolved critical crashes and memory leaks.
- Built ALHOSN UAE, the national contact-tracing app — digital signing, OAuth auth and BLE blue-trace technology.
- Scaled the app to over 5M users through performance optimisation and caching strategies.
- Shipped new features for the Ekar car-sharing app; integrated Apple Pay via Checkout.com.
- Reduced app crash rate by 30% through targeted debugging and optimisation.
- Delivered SimplyChains (real-estate, Stripe payments), HiPay (BLE receipt printing), iGold and 2Mummy, plus 8+ apps at Cybraum including Zulekha Hospital and Diya Travels.
The stack, end to end.
Languages & UI
Architecture
Data & Networking
Payments & Integrations
Testing & CI/CD
Tooling & AI
Products I've shipped and led.
Volindo
Booking, itinerary planning and social trip features for a Swift-based super-app, with map-driven UX built on MapKit and Combine, backed by gRPC/Protobuf services.
Currently in MVP stageTAMM
Led iOS architecture for the UAE's flagship government services app — modular VIPER, technical roadmap and mentorship for the iOS team.
App Store ↗ALHOSN UAE
Digital signing, OAuth authentication and BLE blue-trace technology, scaled to over 5 million users through performance and caching work.
App Store ↗HealthierU
Appointment scheduling, medical report access and video consultations powered by the Agora SDK.
App Store ↗Homebase
Biometric authentication, Plaid-powered banking onboarding, and a legacy Objective-C VIPER to Swift MVVM-C migration.
App Store ↗ekar
New features on an MVVM codebase, Apple Pay via Checkout.com, and a 30% reduction in crash rate through targeted debugging.
App Store ↗Foundations.
B.Tech, Electronics & Communications
University of Calicut, India
iOS Lead Essentials
Essential Developer Academy — Clean Architecture, TDD, CI/CD