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Kanaan Zafar

@kanaanzafar

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Senior mobile engineer building scalable iOS and cross-platform apps with Swift, SwiftUI, and Flutter.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead mobile architecture for high-scale iOS and cross-platform products—improving performance, reliability, and delivery pipelines, while partnering with teams to ship production-grade experiences across MENA and South Asia.

I’m a Senior Mobile Engineer with 5+ years of experience building scalable, high-performance mobile applications across iOS and cross-platform environments. I specialize in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, and Flutter, delivering production-grade solutions deployed across 6+ major digital platforms across MENA and South Asia.

In my current role, I improved 30+ native iOS features using MVVM and modular architecture to increase maintainability and scalability. I led the Hatla2ee migration from a cross-platform framework to a native iOS architecture, boosting application performance and long-term reliability.

I focus on robust API integrations, Swift Concurrency (async/await), and performance optimization through profiling and debugging. From Core Data offline persistence to APNs, deep linking, background processing, XCTest coverage, and App Store deployment workflows, I help teams ship stable releases and faster, safer delivery cycles.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Software Engineer

Dubizzle Labs

Jul 2021 - Mar 2026 (4 years 8 months)

Contributed to development and maintenance of 6+ production iOS applications (Bayut, Bayut KSA, Bayut Egypt, Hatla2ee, OLX Pakistan, dubizzle Egypt), improving 30+ Swift/SwiftUI/UIKit features for better maintainability and scalability. Led the Hatla2ee migration from cross-platform to native iOS architecture and delivered REST API integrations, Swift Concurrency-based async processing, offline Co

Swift SwiftUI UIKit MVVM API Integration Core Data APNS URLSession XCTest

Software Engineer

TxLabz

Jul 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year)

Engineered Flutter/Dart multi-platform mobile applications for iOS and Android, delivering 30% faster feature development through modular architecture. Integrated GraphQL APIs and secure authentication, implemented offline caching/synchronization, embedded TensorFlow Lite on-device models, and supported stable CI/CD releases using Fastlane and Git Flow.

Flutter Dart GraphQL Authentication Offline Synchronization Tensorflow Lite CI CD With Fastlane Git Flow

Software Engineer Intern

BadPuppet Studio

Jun 2019 - Jun 2020 (1 year)

Enhanced 3+ cross-platform Flutter mobile applications using Firebase services, enabling 40% faster prototyping and reducing deployment time by 30%. Implemented Firebase Authentication, Firestore, and Crashlytics monitoring and translated UI/UX prototypes into production-ready mobile interfaces while supporting backend integrations and production issue debugging.

Flutter Firebase Authentication Firestore Firebase Crashlytics Cross Platform Mobile Development UI Firebase Debugging