Marek Svoboda - Lead iOS/macOS Developer

Experienced Lead iOS & macOS Engineer with a strong background in designing and developing high-quality native applications for Apple platforms. Proficient in Swift with extensive experience delivering robust, maintainable, and performance-focused software.

Skilled in mentoring team members, leading development efforts, and collaborating effectively in remote and cross-functional environments across multiple time zones. Passionate about building elegant, user-centric products.

Technical Skills

Expert-level proficiency across the Apple ecosystem

Primary

iOS / macOS Development

Native application development for Apple platforms

Swift GCD Swift Concurrency Objective-C

Expert

UI Frameworks

Modern and legacy UI development expertise

SwiftUI UIKit AppKit Combine RxSwift

Architecture

MVVM, Coordinator, MVC, POP, TDD

Data & Persistence

SwiftData, Core Data, SQLite

Other Languages

C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, Python

AI Tools

Cursor, Claude Code, Codex

Dev Tools

JIRA, Linear, Sentry, Firebase

Version Control

Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions

Key Achievement

Developed an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) iOS application for the largest airlines in the world, currently used daily by over 20,000 pilots globally.

View on App Store

Experience

A track record of delivering exceptional software

Senior iOS Engineer

Current

MONETA Bank - Czechia - hybrid - contract

Oct 2025 - Present

Feature development and modernization of the bank's enterprise-level mobile application serving its entire client base
Responsible for refactoring legacy code to adopt the latest Swift 6 Concurrency model and improve overall performance, maintainability and responsiveness

Lead macOS Engineer

Mission Ctrl Inc - US - remote - short contract

Sep 2025 - Oct 2025

Short time-limited contract focused on developing Bento, a macOS application for window management and workspace restoration based on previously saved layouts
Delivered rapid development using Cursor and various LLM-assisted tools to accelerate iteration and prototyping

macOS SwiftUI Combine AppKit Swift Concurrency

iOS/macOS Engineer

O-code - Czechia - remote - contract

Jan 2024 - Sep 2025

Development of ReadersApp for messages backup browsing
Integrated on-device AI analytics for message parsing and TTS transcription using Apple APIs and custom models

iOS Swift SwiftUI OpenAI API

macOS Engineer

Timing Software GmbH - Germany - remote - limited time contract

Oct 2024 - Mar 2025

Feature development of macOS Timing app using Swift
Exploring bringing Timing app to Windows using Swift/WinRT
Working with GitHub Actions for CD and CI

Lead iOS/macOS Engineer

Viasat Ireland (Arconics) - Ireland - remote - contract

Aug 2015 - Jan 2024

Led development of AeroDocs 2.0 (iPad EFB) app using Swift & Objective-C
Built fully tested UI layer using XCUITest; maintained XCTest unit coverage
Leading development of Windows 10 (C# UWP + WPF) versions of iOS EFB app
Developed macOS HTTP server as a mocking API for rapid QA

Senior Software Engineer

Synchronoss Technologies - Ireland - remote - contract

Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

Part of macOS (Cocoa) team developing cloud storage application for enterprise customers
Also joined iOS team working on both consumer and enterprise iOS applications

Development Team Lead

Dynavix a.s. - Czechia - full time

Feb 2007 - Apr 2014

Joined as C++ software engineer, promoted to senior and later to leader position
Developed embedded offline GPS navigation application for WinCE in C++
Migrated whole C++ project to support iOS 4 with custom UI
Migrated project to Android (Java + NDK)

Sample Project

Open source work demonstrating full-stack Swift expertise

SportLog

Full-stack Swift Application

A full-stack application for logging sports activities, featuring a native iOS and macOS client built with SwiftUI and a backend Swift server powered by Vapor.

iOS macOS SwiftUI Vapor Server-side Swift

View on GitHub

Education & Certifications

Electrical Engineering / Computer Systems

Prague 2, Czech Republic

2003 - 2007

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer

C# Windows Applications

Jan 2008

Languages

EN

English

C2 - Advanced

Proficient

ES

Spanish

B2 - Intermediate

Independent

CZ

Czech

Native

Mother tongue

Ready to work together?

Available for contract roles, remote or EU-based. Let's build something amazing together.

Email Me Call Me

marek@svoboda.dev +353 871 926 114 +420 776 696 776 LinkedIn GitHub