
Rishat Zinatullin
Senior iOS Engineer | On-Device ML
Salary / Daily rate
Straža, Serbia
Freelance
Skills
About me
Intro
Senior iOS Engineer with 6+ years building high-load apps serving millions of users in fintech and e-commerce. Expertise in real-time trading systems, SwiftUI architecture, and on-device ML solutions using Core ML/Vision. Specialized in scalable app design, reactive programming (RxSwift/Combine), and performance optimization for mission-critical features under peak traffic.
Work experience
Senior iOS Engineer
FG BCS — Leading investment and trading platform with 17M+ users
Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
1 year 7 months
Remote
• Owned development of core iOS features for real-time Forex trading and market data, including quotes, trading flows, deposits, and withdrawals. • Designed and owned architectural decisions for critical high-load modules, improving stability and scalability of real-time trading systems. • Implemented real-time data pipelines using WebSockets and reactive programming (RxSwift / Combine), ensuring sub-second quote updates under peak load. • Built backend-driven UI components and contributed to an internal design system, accelerating feature delivery and ensuring UI consistency across teams. • Optimized UI rendering and update pipelines for real-time trading screens, reducing UI latency and ensuring reliable sub-second updates during peak market volatility.
Senior iOS Engineer
Bookmakers Rating — Large-scale sports and betting media platform with 8M+ users
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
1 year 4 months
Remote
• Designed and built the iOS application architecture from scratch using SwiftUI and MVVM for a high-traffic media product. • Defined core architectural principles, including data flow, module boundaries, navigation, and dependency injection, enabling scalable feature development. • Developed a reusable UI component system and contributed to an internal SwiftUI design system, improving development speed and long-term maintainability. • Delivered multiple production features supporting traffic peaks during major sports events.
Senior iOS Engineer
Kazan Express — Large-scale e-commerce marketplace with 12M+ users
Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
2 years 3 months
Remote
• Owned and delivered core iOS features for a high-load e-commerce app used by millions of users, focusing on performance, stability, and scalability • Solved product classification and support automation problems by building on-device image analysis using Core ML and Vision with pre-trained image classification and object detection models • Designed and implemented Vision → Core ML pipelines to process photos and video frames, mapping model outputs to product and issue categories used in real marketplace and support flows • Delivered automatic product categorization and a camera-based support feature, improving UX while keeping all inference fully on-device for performance and privacy • Improved performance of complex, data-heavy screens and contributed to shared UI components, helping keep the app responsive under peak traffic
iOS Engineer
Ak Bars Bank — Major retail banking platform with 5M+ clients
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
10 months
Remote
• Improved legacy modules and assisted in architecture refactoring, increasing codebase maintainability.
Education
Kazan Federal University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering