• 16+ yrs
  • AI · iOS
  • Portugal

Helping companies build AI products
that users actually love.

I help startups and enterprises integrate LLMs, AI Agents, and intelligent workflows into mobile and digital products — from strategy to production.

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Companies worked with

Services

AI consulting engagements built around outcomes.

AI Readiness Assessment

Understand where AI creates real business value.

  • AI opportunity map
  • ROI estimation
  • Architecture recommendations

AI Architecture & Solution Design

Design scalable AI systems using LLMs, RAG, vector databases, MCP, function calling, AI agents, and hybrid cloud.

  • LLM & RAG system design
  • Vector database selection
  • Agent & MCP architecture
  • Hybrid cloud deployment plan

AI Prototype in 2 Weeks

Build a working MVP fast, with a clear path to production.

  • Architecture
  • Backend
  • Mobile
  • Production roadmap

Engineering Leadership

Help engineering teams improve delivery and adopt AI-native workflows.

  • Delivery process improvements
  • Technical debt reduction
  • AI development workflow adoption
  • Engineering velocity increase
Expertise

AI, data, mobile, and backend — under one roof.

AI

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Gemini
  • Local LLMs
  • Ollama
  • MCP
  • Function Calling
  • Agents
  • Prompt Engineering

Data

  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • Pinecone
  • Weaviate
  • Chroma
  • pgvector

Mobile

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • UIKit
  • visionOS
  • iOS Architecture

Backend

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Supabase
Consulting Process

From idea to production, in five steps.

  1. 01

    Discovery Call

    Understand the business.

  2. 02

    AI Strategy

    Define the right use case.

  3. 03

    Architecture

    Design scalable AI systems.

  4. 04

    MVP

    Build fast.

  5. 05

    Production

    Scale confidently.

Selected work

Applied AI and real-time systems, built into real products.

MyLedgerAI overview screen with balance, budgets and spending chart
iOS · LLM · RAG · Personal Finance

MyLedgerAI: grounded finance assistant

Challenge: Finance apps show what happened, but rarely turn that data into a clear next step, and generic chatbots answer without knowing the user's numbers.

Approach: A privacy-first, chat-led assistant that uses retrieval-augmented generation to ground every answer in the user's own transactions, budgets, goals and receipts. Data stays in on-device storage, and receipts are read with Vision OCR.

SwiftSwiftUISwiftDataRAGVision OCR
iOS · On-device ML · Security

YEO Messaging: verify the person, not the device

Challenge: A secure messenger needed to confirm that the intended recipient is the person reading a message, not just whoever is holding their unlocked phone.

Approach: As Lead iOS Developer, built the recipient-verification pipeline with CoreML and ARKit, running face recognition on the device, alongside OLM end-to-end encryption and WebSocket messaging.

CoreMLARKitOLMGraphQLWebSockets
iOS · Real-time video · Location

FRiNGE: location-based livestreaming

Challenge: Going live outdoors means slow, flaky networks and a camera that has to move cleanly between capture and the live RTC session.

Approach: As Head of Mobile and the only mobile lead, designed and shipped the iOS app end to end: led the architecture for Go-Live performance and the camera ↔ Agora handoff, added token prefetch and warm-restart flows so going live feels instant, and built on Swift 6 strict concurrency.

Swift 6SwiftUIAgora RTCSupabasePostHog
Track Record

16+ years of building and leading software.

  1. –

    Head of Mobile / Lead iOS Engineer

    FRiNGE

    • Designed and shipped the iOS app end to end as sole mobile lead, with Swift 6, SwiftUI, Agora RTC, Supabase and PostHog
    • Led architecture on Go-Live performance, the camera ↔ Agora handoff and Swift 6 strict concurrency safety
    • Implemented token prefetch and warm-restart flows so going live feels instant and survives flaky outdoor networks
  2. –

    Lead iOS Developer

    Volkswagen Group

    • Led iOS development for the MAN TGE companion app: architecture, technical roadmap and delivery across releases
    • Defined and enforced Clean Architecture + MVVM standards with strict concurrency safety; drove release strategy within a SAFe Program Increment cadence
    • Started on the CAT Architecture Team, supporting the release pipeline and onboarding new teams org-wide, with tooling in Python, Bash and YAML
  3. –

    Lead iOS Developer

    YEO Messaging

    • Built the recipient-verification pipeline with CoreML and ARKit for on-device face recognition, authenticating the person, not just the device
    • Implemented OLM end-to-end encryption, GraphQL APIs and WebSocket-based real-time messaging
    • Architected a hybrid UIKit/SwiftUI codebase in MVVM-C with snapshot testing and Bitrise CI
  4. –

    Lead iOS Developer

    Prozis (ProzisGo)

    • Defined the architecture for ingesting data from multiple wearables (smart scales, bands) into a nutrition inference engine
    • Applied strict TDD with explicit use-case and test-case specifications, building with TCA, RxSwift and Realm
    • Authored an internal SDK consumed by other product teams
  5. –

    iOS Developer

    Bosch

    • Architected HeatHub, a smart-home app for Bosch’s thermotechnology appliance line: a hybrid Swift/Objective-C/C++ codebase with HomeKit integration
    • Designed a new BLE communication protocol from scratch for ProWater, a water-heater installer app
    • Contributed to the open-source Charts library
  6. –

    IT Consultant

    Portugal Telecom

    • Built an Objective-C macOS product for wireless pen drives that automatically selected the best available network
    • Backend work on an SSO platform (Java, Spring MVC/Security, Hibernate) and a QoS platform (Java, PostgreSQL, Bash)
Why Work With Me

Engineering depth, applied to AI.

16+ Years Engineering

Native products shipped for automotive, live video, secure messaging, health and smart-home companies.

AI Native Thinking

AI is designed into the product — not added later.

Engineering Leadership

Led iOS architecture and delivery at Volkswagen Group, FRiNGE, YEO Messaging and Prozis.

Business First

Every AI solution must generate measurable value.

Let's build your next AI product.

Whether you're exploring AI or scaling an existing solution, let's discuss how to turn ideas into production-ready systems.

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