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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.

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.

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
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Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
2019 · Certificate
Certified
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Machine Learning
Coursera (Stanford University)
2018 · Certificate
Completed
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Xamarin Mobile Certification
Xamarin University
2016 · Certificate
Certified

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