Gentian Barileva

Senior iOS Engineer with expertise in building scalable, elegant, and user-friendly mobile applications that deliver exceptional experiences.

Gentian Barileva

Work Experience

May 2023 - Present

Senior iOS Engineer

Airalo (Remote)

  • 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
November 2021 - May 2023

iOS Engineer

Povio (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
July 2020 - November 2021

iOS Developer

dua.com (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
February 2017 - July 2020

Game Developer

Trigonom sh.p.k. (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

Projects & Open Source

jutubeDL

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

GBLocationManager-Singleton

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

VisionFaceAware

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

AppStoreScrapper

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

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