Senior iOS Engineer · Indie App Maker
14+ years shipping native iOS apps — as a team lead and a solo indie maker. I blend engineering with product, ASO, and monetization to build apps people find, love, and keep.
About
I'm a Senior iOS Engineer and indie app maker with 14+ years of experience building native iOS apps. I've led an iOS team and independently shipped 30+ consumer products — and I care as much about how people discover, try, pay for, and keep using an app as I do about the code behind it.
On the engineering side, I work in Swift, SwiftUI, and modern Apple frameworks across health, lifestyle, AI, and utilities — including Time Portal (a historical-photo map with over 1,000,000 images), BCAA (an AI fitness coach), and Aira (guided breathwork and sleep).
Beyond building stable, scalable apps, I handle the growth around them — App Store Optimization (ASO), subscriptions, and monetization. I'm based in Georgia and open to remote freelance or full-time work.
Services
From a first idea to a polished App Store app — plus the engineering rigor to keep it healthy as it grows.
From idea and architecture through the SwiftUI build, App Store release, and the analytics, subscriptions, and updates that follow — one senior owner across the whole journey.
Audit an existing codebase, set up clean, scalable architecture, and level up your iOS team through reviews and mentoring — something the teams I've worked with valued again and again.
We align on the goal, the users, and the constraints before any code — so the build solves the real problem, not a guess.
Clean architecture, frequent demos, and steady releases. You see progress the whole way, not just a final reveal.
After launch I help with ASO, subscriptions, analytics, and iteration — so the app keeps improving and earning, not just existing.
Stack
A pragmatic, modern Apple-platform toolkit — from code to growth.
Selected work
A selection from 30+ apps I've shipped — across health, lifestyle, AI, and utilities.
Turn cooking videos into recipes instantly
AI-powered recipe extractor that watches cooking videos from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube and pulls out every ingredient and step — no more pausing and rewinding.
Travel through time on a map
Over 1,000,000 historical photos pinned to a world map. Search any place, compare past and present, and see how cities looked from 1825 to today.
Your personal AI fitness coach
An AI coach that builds and adapts a personalized training plan from your goals and gear — with an 800+ exercise library and fully offline workouts.
Breathe better, sleep deeper
Guided breathwork for calm, focus, and sleep — coherence training, box breathing, and the Wim Hof method in one calm, ad-free app.
Your AI virtual fitting room
Upload a photo and try on thousands of outfits in seconds. An AI clothes-changer and personal stylist that keeps your photos on-device.
Clean your camera roll in minutes
A swipe-based photo cleaner that finds duplicates and screenshots, frees up storage, and lets you review every shot before it's deleted.
Arrive ready, not exhausted
A science-based jet-lag planner that resets your body clock for any time zone using light, sleep, and caffeine timing.
Your flexible interval training timer
Build effective HIIT, Tabata, or circuit workouts your way — customize rounds, work and rest times, warm-up and cool-down. Apple Watch support with haptic and sound cues.
References
Excerpts from company reference letters by CTOs and founders I've built with since 2014.
Pavel writes high-quality, clear, and consistent code, finds thoughtful solutions to complex problems, and became a reliable mentor to our junior engineers — a highly motivated, valued member of the team.
Pavel built high-performance code for our video processing and was a highly valued, dependable mentor. Analytical, quality-focused, and always learning — his teaching talent helped both the team and our products grow.
Pavel showed deep iOS expertise and worked seamlessly with designers and engineers to ship on time and at high quality. Responsible, reliable, and full of initiative — his contribution to our startup's success can hardly be overstated.
Pavel grew quickly from simple tasks to complex projects, with a rare gift for problem-solving and technical foresight. His UI and performance ideas became the basis for many successful features — an indispensable team member.
Blog
Field notes from building and growing 30+ apps.
Contact
Have an idea, a project, or a role in mind? I'm open to freelance and full-time work. The fastest way to reach me is email.