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Senior iOS
Engineer

iOS engineering leader with 10+ years building high-performance consumer apps at ACV Auctions, Avanade, and BlackBerry. Expert in Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, Swift Concurrency, and leading high-impact mobile engineering teams.

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Satish Birajdar
10+Years Experience
15+Apps Shipped
6+Enterprise Clients
3Degrees & Masters

Career

Work Experience

10+ years of iOS engineering across automotive e-commerce, travel & media, insurance, and banking — building apps used by millions of users.

ACV Auctions · Toronto, Canada
Lead Software Engineer (iOS)
Aug 2019 – Present
Scale & Impact
  • B2B iOS marketplace serving dealership employees and ACV vehicle inspectors across North America.
  • Reduced app launch time by 30% (3.6s → 2.0s) through lazy dependency initialization, async workflows, and launch sequence refactoring.
  • Improved crash-free sessions from 98.4% to 99.7% through proactive monitoring, root-cause analysis, and targeted quality improvements.
  • Led the resolution of app memory leaks and phone overheating issues for users in extreme heat regions.
Architecture & Ownership
  • Audited and led the migration of MVC to MVVM architecture across the codebase.
  • Led & owned key user flows: MyACV, Post-Winning-Finalization, Transportation, Payment, and MarketPlace Saved Searches.
  • Drove design reviews establishing scalable, maintainable, customer-centric mobile solutions aligned with long-term platform objectives.
  • Demonstrated Clean Architecture in SwiftUI to the engineering team.
Modern iOS
  • Leveraged Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine, async-await, and Swift Concurrency to accelerate feature delivery and enhance performance.
  • Used async-await to run multiple long-running API calls concurrently, preventing deadlocks.
  • Fixed multiple crash reports (SIGABRT, SIGSEGV, missing coding-keys) surfaced via Datadog-RUM and New Relic APM.
Leadership
  • Raised team PR code coverage from >50% to >70% across a team of 6 engineers.
  • Onboarded and mentored ~8 junior engineers on tasks, blockers, and career growth.
  • Led cross-platform architectural discussions (Perl migrations) with Staff and Principal engineers.
  • Authored technical design documents: CoreData → SwiftData migration, Keychain vs. UserDefaults, Xcode Cloud, SalesForce Chat POC, Clean Architecture in SwiftUI.
  • Contributed to hiring and team scaling by conducting technical interviews and evaluating candidates.
  • Partnered with Product, Design, Backend, and business stakeholders to define priorities and align roadmaps.
AI Adoption
  • Championed AI-assisted engineering workflows using Claude and GitHub Copilot — improving developer productivity, code quality, and delivery efficiency by ~4× across the team.
Avanade (Accenture + Microsoft) · Toronto, Canada
Consultant
Dec 2017 – Mar 2019
  • Led a team of 3 iOS engineers on the Tim Hortons mobile platform — a high-scale consumer app with ~1–1.7M DAU and 5.8M MAU (App Store rating 4.7/5).
  • Supported Air Canada mobile app serving 160K–500K DAU and 2–4M MAU (App Store rating 4.8/5); authored DevOps strategy with Azure DevOps and App Center.
  • Delivered iOS solutions with Swift and UIKit, with strong emphasis on code quality, code reviews, and CI/CD best practices.
  • Stack: Swift, RxSwift, Xcode, Quick/Nimble, Fastlane, mParticle.
Syntel · Toronto, Canada
Technical Specialist / Project Lead
May 2017 – Nov 2017
  • Led ground-up delivery of AllState Insurance Canada iOS app — 300K–1.5M DAU and 2–4M MAU (App Store rating 4.8/5).
  • Implemented iOS features using TDD; wrote and maintained unit, UI, and integration tests.
  • Implemented AODA/Accessibility compliance and internationalization.
  • Diagnosed technical issues, documented architectural decisions, and communicated trade-offs to stakeholders.
CGI Group · Toronto, Canada
Senior Consultant
Sep 2016 – Apr 2017
  • Designed and developed iPad UIs with UIKit, Auto Layout, and Interface Builder for the BMO E-Sign iPad application.
  • Built maintainable iOS code using MVC, protocol/delegate patterns, multithreading, and unit testing.
  • Integrated enterprise networking interfaces including SOAP and REST APIs.
Canamex Communication Corporation · Markham, Canada
Software Programmer
Sep 2014 – Jun 2016
  • Built iPhone messaging functionality from wireframes to implementation using Xamarin.iOS and Swift.
  • Implemented AES-256 local data encryption with SQLite-backed storage.
  • Worked with APNS and local notifications for real-time user messaging experiences.
BlackBerry Limited · Ottawa, Canada
Software Developer (Co-op)
Sep 2013 – May 2014
  • Delivered features and fixes for BlackBerry 10 projects: Radio UI Manager, Mobile Network Settings, and Universal Search.
  • Contributed to BlackBerry Voice Assistant — an NLP-powered assistant embedded in BB OS — building UI and integrating platform, social, and Maps APIs.
  • Developed components using C++, Qt/QML, and NLP-driven assistant workflows.
It Just Works Software · Orillia, Canada
Computer Programmer Analyst (Co-op)
May 2013 – Aug 2013
  • Developed an iOS kiosk app for HYATT Hotels using Objective-C, Xcode, and RESTful APIs.
  • Integrated ZBar barcode reader framework for the kiosk check-in feature.

Expertise

Skills & Technologies

Deep iOS specialization paired with breadth across the full mobile engineering stack.

Languages
Swift Objective-C Xamarin / C# Java JavaScript C / C++ QML PHP
iOS Platform
Xcode UIKit SwiftUI RxSwift Combine Core Data Autolayout XCTest
Architecture
MVC MVVM MVVMC MVP OOP TDD Clean Arch Protocol-Oriented
DevOps & CI/CD
Fastlane Jenkins Azure DevOps App Center Git JIRA Xcode Cloud
Analytics & SDKs
MixPanel New Relic Instabug mParticle PubNub Scandit Firebase APNS
Leadership
Engineering Manager Agile / Scrum Code Review Mentoring Tech Strategy System Design

Work

Portfolio

Selected projects across iOS, Android, and Web — from enterprise banking to consumer apps used by millions.

ACV Auctions App
ACV Auctions
SwiftSwiftUIMVVMCombineiOS
App Store
Tim Hortons App
Tim Hortons
SwiftRxSwiftMVVMiOS
App Store
Air Canada App
Air Canada
SwiftMVVMAzure DevOpsiOS
App Store
AllState Insurance iOS
AllState Insurance Canada (iOS)
SwiftTDDAODAiOS
App Store
AllState Insurance Android
AllState Insurance Canada (Android)
JavaTDDAndroid
Play Store
BMO ESign App
BMO ESign (iOS)
SwiftAirWatchEnterprise
Press Release
ConfusedMind App
ConfusedMind (iOS)
SwiftXcodeiOS
App Store
Radio Sphere App
Radio Sphere (iOS)
SwiftAVFoundationiOS
App Store
DocChatter App
DocChatter (iOS)
SwiftXcodeiOS
GitHub
BlackBerry Voice Assistant
BlackBerry Voice Assistant
C++Qt / QMLNLPBB10
Demo
Teramessage
Teramessage
XamarinC#Objective-CiOS
App Store
Hotel Room Service Android
Hotel Room Service (Android)
JavaAndroid StudioAndroid
Demo Video
BookSale Web
BookSale (Web)
C#HTML5CSS3
GitHub

Academic

Education & Certifications

Strong academic foundation combined with industry-recognized certifications.

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MSc Information Technology
London Metropolitan University
Dec 2016
Graduated with Distinction
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Diploma in Computer Programming
Georgian College
Aug 2014
Graduated with Honors
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Bachelor of Computer Engineering
Pune University, India
May 2011
Completed
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Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
2021 · Certificate
Certified
📜
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
2019 · Certificate
Certified
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Machine Learning
Coursera (Stanford University)
2018 · Certificate
Completed
📜
Xamarin Mobile Certification
Xamarin University
2016 · Certificate
Certified

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