Ashot Kirakosyan

I'm a senior mobile engineer and tech lead with a decade of shipping consumer apps that people actually keep on their home screen. I care about the craft that shows up between specs — the gesture that feels right, the empty state that earns a smile, the 80ms of latency nobody asked about but everyone feels.

These days I'm leading a mobile platform team at a Series B company, focused on rebuilding our rendering pipeline and mentoring the six engineers who touch it. I work remote from Lisbon, pair in the mornings, and write in the afternoons.

I keep a paper notebook next to my keyboard and fill one every four months. Half of it is diagrams, half is lists of things I don't understand yet. I think of engineering as a practice, not a performance — the good stuff compounds quietly.

Tech Lead, Mobile Platform

2023 — Present
Harbor & Finch

Rebuilt the iOS rendering layer to cut cold-start time by 42% and unblock a four-person team working on live video. Now leading a six-person squad across two time zones.

SwiftKotlinRustgRPCMetal

Senior Mobile Engineer

2020 — 2023
Northwind Labs

Shipped the Android refactor that took the app from 2.9★ to 4.6★ over 18 months. Owned the migration from Java to Kotlin across 180k lines of code.

KotlinJetpack ComposeGraphQLFirebase

iOS Engineer

2017 — 2020
Kestrel

Joined as employee #11 and built the first version of the iPad app, which drove 30% of new signups within a year. Left when we passed 40 people.

SwiftUIKitCore DataCombine

Mobile Engineer

2015 — 2017
Cartograph

Built offline-first map rendering for field workers in low-connectivity regions. Learned how to write code that assumes the network is a lie.

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Mobile
  • Swift / SwiftUI
  • Kotlin / Compose
  • Objective-C
  • Core Data
  • Room
  • Metal / OpenGL ES
Frontend
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Astro
  • CSS Grid / Container Queries
  • Vite
Backend
  • Go
  • Rust
  • Node.js
  • Postgres
  • gRPC / Protobuf
  • GraphQL
Infra
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions
  • Fastlane
  • Sentry

I'm currently open to Tech Lead roles and a small number of freelance engagements per year — mostly consulting with early-stage teams on mobile architecture, performance, and the first year of hiring. If that overlaps with what you're building, I'd love to hear from you.

Available for new opportunities