Gentian Barileva | Principal iOS Engineer (Swift, SwiftUI, CI/CD)

Work Experience

Airalo

Full-time 2 yrs 11 mos

Remote

Principal iOS Engineer

Mar 2026 - Present · 1 mo

Senior iOS Engineer

May 2023 - Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Led technical breakdowns of key initiatives and improvements
Automated the release process by relieving engineers of tedious tasks
Migrated CI workflows from Bitrise to GitHub Actions
Introduced Snapshot Testing and guidelines for maintaining quality
Designed more testable architecture layers for streamlined testing
Set up end-to-end testing pipelines using Maestro

iOS Engineer

Povio Full-time

Nov 2021 - May 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

Pristina, Kosovo

Led internal project for kickstarting new projects with company best practices
Refactored and optimized CI/CD templates for iOS projects
Developed apps using ultra-wideband tech with Apple's NearbyInteraction framework
Built HIPAA-compliant health-related projects
Implemented TDD and MVP architecture with composable approach

iOS Developer

dua.com Full-time

Jul 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Pristina, Kosovo

Integrated In-App Purchases (Consumables & Auto-Renewable Subscriptions)
Developed white-label solution with shared code and multiple targets
Built Tinder-like Instagram integration using Basic Display and Graph API
Implemented CallKit & VoIP support via Twilio for P2P calls
Set up build automation using Fastlane and CI/CD using Bitrise

Game Developer

Trigonom sh.p.k. Full-time

Feb 2017 - Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Pristina, Kosovo

Designed and built games for iOS and Android using cross-platform game engines
Maintained existing games and shipped new features
Optimized games for performance and ensured quality
Played a key role in design decisions

Technical Skills

iOS Development

Swift

SwiftUI

UIKit

Objective-C

AVFoundation

CoreData

CoreLocation

MapKit

StoreKit

CallKit

CloudKit

Combine

Core Bluetooth

NearbyInteraction

Tools & Practices

Xcode

Git

GitHub Actions

Bitrise

Fastlane

TDD

Snapshot Testing

Maestro

Crashlytics

Firebase

CI/CD

Figma

REST APIs

Architecture & Patterns

MVC

MVVM

MVP

Clean Architecture

Dependency Injection

Protocol-Oriented Programming

Composable Architecture

Latest Articles

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Projects & Open Source

Progress Bar - Track Your Time

A time tracker and organizer app for iOS that helps users visualize and manage their time effectively with intuitive progress bars.

Swift iOS CoreData CloudKit

App Store

Audio Player with Download Functionality

A fully-fledged iOS audio player with built-in downloading capabilities for offline listening, custom playback controls, and playlist management.

Swift AVFoundation URLSession MediaPlayer

GitHub

Airalo iOS App

Contributed to the Airalo iOS app, focusing on optimizing testability, improving CI/CD workflows, and enhancing the overall software development lifecycle.

Swift SwiftUI GitHub Actions Snapshot Testing Maestro

App Store

jutubeDL

A simple Youtube to mp3 downloader with a built-in audio player for iOS, allowing users to download and play audio files offline.

Swift

View Repository

GBLocationManager-Singleton

Handy CLLocationManager singleton class for iOS apps. An elegant solution for location services implementation.

Swift

View Repository

VisionFaceAware

An extension that gives UIImageView the ability to focus on faces through Vision Framework within an image.

Swift

View Repository

AppStoreScrapper

A web scraper for Apple's App Store app listings, useful for automating data collection from the App Store.

Python

View Repository

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