Laurent Meert
Senior Mobile Engineer | iOS & Kotlin Multiplatform
Salary / Daily rate
Brussels, Belgium
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Technical Lead with 5+ years managing mobile development teams and architecting cross-platform solutions. Proven expertise in iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and Android development, having led aviation industry applications serving global airlines. Deliver sophisticated mobile products with optimized architectures, reusable components, and seamless integrations—bringing technical leadership and hands-on development skills to your project.
Work experience
Mobile Engineer
November Five
Feb 2025 - Present
1 year 9 months
Antwerp, Belgium
- Reinforce the Mobile team to work on several projects in various industries - Kotlin Multiplatform - Android Studio - Xcode - Figma
SITA
Jun 2018 - Oct 2024
6 years 5 months
Barcelona, Spain
Software Development Manager
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
11 months
Barcelona, Spain
- Managing a team of 15+ people within the front-end software development area i.e. mobile and web: yearly personal goals, performance and personal development. - Mobile technical lead: managing architectures and development strategy for all the mobile products, reusability of code, general code architecture, continuous integration, etc. - Senior iOS Developer in FlightFolder product, an EFB oriented application designed for airlines (pilots and dispatchers) within the airline industry. Swift + SwiftUI, unit tests, CoreData, Alamofire
Mobile Development Lead / Application Expert
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
11 months
Barcelona, Spain
Mobile Lead (People manager) - Managing a team of 5+ people: yearly personal goals, performance and personal development. - Managing architectures and development strategy for all the mobile products: reusability of code, general code architecture, continuous integration, etc. - Senior iOS Developer in FlightFolder product, an EFB oriented application designed for airlines (pilots and dispatchers) within the airline industry. Swift + SwiftUI, unit tests, CoreData, Alamofire Application Expert - Technical analysis of a given business/product/customer need - Assist product owner with - technical specifications when defining tickets - work estimates for roadmap and capacity planning - Make technical decisions on a higher level hierarchy (architecture, whole backend to client solution, etc) - Manage and ensure support flow - Responsible for support group assigned tickets to be closed and followed up within time - Analyse and reassign tickets to the rest of the team - Communicate with Devops in order to optimise issue solving - Communicate with Customer Support to ensure good communication with customer - Manage production of technical documentation
Mobile Factory Manager
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
1 year 2 months
Barcelona, Spain
- Managing a team of 8+ people: yearly personal goals, performance and personal development. - Managing architectures and development strategy for all the mobile products: reusability of code, general code architecture, continuous integration, etc. - Actively participating to development of iOS projects.
iOS & Web Factory Manager
May 2021 - Mar 2022
11 months
Barcelona, Spain
- Managing a small team of 4 people - Create cohesion between different platforms and ways of programming - Defining a reusable architecture and code implementation/guidelines within iOS applications - Lead iOS development on 1 of our products
iOS Engineer - Tech Lead
Jan 2019 - May 2021
2 years 5 months
08870 Sitges, Barcelona, Spain
- Lead iOS development of FlightFolder application, designed for pilots and dispatches in the aviation/airline industry. - MVVM architecture using Swift
iOS Engineer
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
8 months
Barcelona, Spain
- Participate in developing iOS native application: eWAS, a weather awareness application designed for pilots who are willing to improve their visibility of weather. - MVC architecture with Objective C
Freelance Web/Mobile Developer
Grappit
Sep 2015 - May 2019
3 years 9 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
1) MyTown: The app you need for your city. (iOS & Android) • Have your citizens connected to your political institutions and people • Xcode 9, Swift 4 • Android Studio, Java • Parse (www.parse.com) for database and API management. MyTown Tulle: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/ville-de-tulle/id1078336758?mt=8 MyTown Montereau: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/mfy-apps/id1294093563?mt=8 2) Getly Euro 2016 (iOS & Android) (www.getly.eu) • Your companion for the Euro Cup 2016 • Xcode 7, Swift 2.3 • Android Studio, Java • Parse (www.parse.com)
Co Founder Further Serendipia
serendipia
Sep 2016 - Jan 2019
2 years 5 months
San Francisco, CA, USA
Skills: Git · E-Commerce · Computer Science · Multithreading · Attention to Detail
iOS Developer
Ostmodern
Apr 2017 - May 2018
1 year 2 months
London, UK
1) Sony Crackle (www.crackle.com) • Major contribution to Sony’s Crackle TV and Movies app code base using Swift 3/4. • Setup and maintenance of the Jenkins respective jobs • Written in Swift 3/4 using modules and dependencies such as database, networking, utilities, ... • Carthage dependency manager • Agile (SCRUM) environment 2) The Olympic Channel (www.olympicchannel.com) • Contributed to features and app maintenance for the iOS application. • Xcode 9, Swift 3 • Agile (SCRUM) environment 3) Automation Framework • Implementation of a test automation framework for the Quality Assurance department • Appium, Cucumber, Java and Jenkins. • Agile (SCRUM) environment
IT Consultant
PYCOGROUP
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
3 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Tasks: • Development of mobile application "Netgem" on Android with a team of 5 people • Development of new Website version for PYCO Edge (www.pyco-edge.com) Technical environment: • Android Studio, Java • HTML, CSS (Zurb Foundation), Javascript, JQuery
Mobile Applications Developer
Digital Advice Group
Oct 2015 - Jul 2016
10 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
Tasks: • Development of mobile application "Getly" on iOS and Android • Setup of iceScrum standalone platform on Windows Technical environment: • Xcode, Swift, Objective C • Android Studio, Java • Parse (www.parse.com) • SCRUM (iceScrum platform)
Recruitement Officer
afarax
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
1 month
Brussels Area, Belgium
• Searching and looking for potential candidates on LinkedIn, Stepstone and Monster. • Analysing and deeply understanding IT jobs/positions • Appointment making with candidates • Meeting and interviewing candidates • Constant feedback with the Business Manager
Sales Administration Coordinator
BMW
Jun 2012 - Jul 2012
2 months
1410 Waterloo, Belgium
I was responsible for managing clients’ orders from the moment they were sold until delivery. I learnt how to manage several tasks to do at the same time, which also were responsibilities.
Intern in Events and Partnerships department
RTL Belgium S.A.
Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
2 months
Brussels Area, Belgium
I was responsible for helping to plan several RTL events e.g. RTL sporting days in Mettet, ’Le club des enfants’. I mainly learnt the different steps to follow in order to organise an event effectively and efficiently.
Intern in Marketing and Communication department
Deutsche Bank
Jan 2011 - Mar 2011
3 months
I did an internship at Deutsche Bank. I was responsible for collecting data about competitors to make a comparative study and to create advertising campaigns after the analysis. I also updated leaflets and brochures for clients. I learnt a lot about the bank system and investments. I had a very good feedback from my supervisor at the end of the day.
Education
Business Training / Bruxelles Formation
Training
2015 - 2015
1 month
Birkbeck, University of London
Master's degree
2013 - 2014
1 year 1 month
United Business Institute
Bachelor’s Degree
2010 - 2013
3 years 1 month