
Pavel Usov
Senior iOS Developer | Swift, UIKit
Salary / Daily rate
İstanbul, Türkiye
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
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About me
Intro
Senior iOS Engineer with 11+ years shipping production apps in high-stakes domains - IoT, car telematics, and smart home - where reliability is non-negotiable. Deep expertise in Swift, Objective-C, SwiftUI, UIKit, and Bluetooth Low Energy. Track record of modularizing large codebases, raising crash-free rates to 99.9%, mentoring engineers, and owning architecture end-to-end (including Swift/Vapor backend services).
Work experience
Senior iOS Developer
ModtfilFreelance
Jan 2025 - Sep 2026
1 year 9 months
Remote
• Built native iOS application with SwiftUI featuring Bluetooth Low Energy integration, real-time elevator status monitoring • Developed real-time status synchronization between mobile clients and elevator control systems using WebSockets and RESTful APIs • Implemented backend service using Swift Vapor framework including user management, elevator group control, WebSocket broadcasting for live status updates, and secure SMS-based registration • Created comprehensive API ecosystem supporting user registration, authentication, elevator commands, and building management with proper security implementation
Senior iOS Developer
TFN Group
Aug 2020 - Dec 2024
4 years 5 months
Remote
The company is one of the leading producers of after-market electronics for car’s security and telematics as well as home automation solutions. • Consolidated two standalone apps (backend-based and Bluetooth-based device communication) into a single unified “super app” leveraging modular architecture to meet tight deadlines and ensuring a seamless user transition. • Designed and implemented background location updates for sharing it with telematics devices over BLE, providing users with lower segment products to use features available only in higher segment products. • Modularized large-scale iOS applications, significantly improving build performance, maintainability, and development efficiency. • Set up CI/CD workflows using Xcode Cloud, resulting in faster deployment times and improved quality. • Mentored less senior developers providing smoother onboarding and skills development • Introduced code review and pair programming practices to the team rituals, improving code quality and knowledge sharing • Designed local first architecture for instant messaging app ensuring consistency and speed of real-time message delivery.
Senior iOS developer
Cesar Satellite
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
1 year 8 months
Moscow, Russia
Maintained iOS applications in one of Russia’s leading car and home automation/security service providers, ensuring stability and seamless user experience. • Improved user satisfaction and App Store ratings by increasing the crash-free rate from 93.7% to 99.9% through targeted debugging and crash analytics monitoring. • Designed and shipped a reusable BLE communication SDK adopted across multiple teams and projects. • Delivered real-time video streaming from in-car CCTV to the mobile app, closely collaborating with backend and hardware team, meeting tight deadlines and complex hardware integration requirements. • Implemented a robust CI/CD pipeline using Fastlane and TeamCity, significantly accelerating delivery speed and reducing manual release errors.
iOS Developer
Mega-F Service
Feb 2015 - Dec 2018
3 years 11 months
Moscow, Russia
• As solo iOS developer delivered 3 iOS apps from idea to App Store including one watchOS app. • While working on iOS apps, extensively participated in designing backend APIs (REST, WebSocket) • Closely collaborated with designers to bring better UX and pixel perfect UI to consumers. • Designed custom Bluetooth LE profile for bi-directional communication with car's security systems.
Education
Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Sciences (MGUPI)
Specialist
1998 - 2003
4 years 11 months
Lyceum of information technology
Computer Graphics
1996 - 1998
2 years 1 month