Egzon Pllana Portfolio

Egzon Pllana

Senior iOS Engineer · SDK & Mobile Architect

Engineer with 15 years across the field - over 10 of them focused on iOS and Swift - built on a foundation in electronics. I design protocol-first, fully testable Swift packages engineered for Swift 6 strict concurrency (actors, Sendable, async/await), shipping production frameworks across FinTech and HealthTech while owning architecture, review, and production quality end to end.

// focus

I build mostly SDKs - the layer other engineers depend on. Networking, dependency injection, navigation, geospatial, audio DSP, and 3D capture: small public APIs over carefully engineered internals, each with a clean architecture and a real test suite.

Open to senior / staff iOS & SDK roles

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Swift SDKs

Open-source Swift packages I design and maintain - protocol-first, fully testable, built for Swift 6 strict concurrency.

InteractiveImageView

A simple UIView to interact with an image: scroll, zoom, pinch and crop - drop-in and configurable.

CodableFiles

Save and load Codable objects to and from the Document directory on iOS with a tiny, type-safe API.

MemoryProfiler

Real-time memory monitoring, leak detection, and usage analytics for iOS apps - instrument without Instruments.

NetworkLayer

A generic, thread-safe networking layer built on the latest Swift 6 concurrency APIs to avoid data races and crashes.

OrbitCore

A lightweight, thread-safe dependency-injection framework with transient, singleton and weak-cache policies, an @Injected wrapper, and zero third-party dependencies.

View all SDKs on GitHub (opens in new tab)
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App Store apps

Consumer apps I have designed, built, and shipped end to end.

Productivity

Engramr - Reminders & Alarms

Smart reminders and alarms that sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch - keep your day simple and stress-free.

App Store
Food & Drink

Eat Once - Body Rhythm

Not all foods are meant to be eaten at the same frequency - eat in rhythm with your body.

App Store
Lifestyle

Fish Care - AI Planner

Build and manage a complete care routine for your fish, with smart scheduling across feeding, water and tank tasks.

App Store
Lifestyle

PlantCare - AI Planner

The all-in-one app for keeping your plants thriving with tailored care schedules and reminders.

App Store
Food & Drink

Feed My Dog - AI Meal Planner

Smart, breed-tailored meal plans based on your dog’s unique profile.

App Store
View all apps on the App Store (opens in new tab)
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Experience

A decade of senior iOS work across FinTech and HealthTech - owning architecture, review, and production quality end to end.

  1. 05/2024 – Present

    Senior iOS Engineer / Architect

    Raiffeisen Bank International AG (opens in new tab) Austria (Remote) · FinTech

  2. 11/2021 – 05/2024

    Senior iOS Engineer

    Mentor Mate LLC (opens in new tab) United States (Remote) · HealthTech

  3. 10/2019 – 11/2021

    Senior iOS Engineer

    Apper GmbH (opens in new tab) Switzerland (Remote)

  4. 05/2017 – 10/2019
  5. 2011

    Electronics & Computer Engineering

    University · Kosovo

    Where it started - first real code in C++, Assembly, HTML & CSS, on a foundation in electronics.

  • SDK Architecture & Swift Package Manager
  • Swift 6 Strict Concurrency (async/await, Sendable)
  • Clean Architecture & MVVM-C
  • Dependency Injection Frameworks
  • Test-Driven Development (1,000+ tests)
  • SwiftUI & Design Systems
  • iOS Security (App Attest, Secure Enclave)
  • Performance Optimization & Offline-First
  • RealityKit, ARKit & 3D Capture
  • Audio Engineering & DSP (vDSP)
  • Geospatial & Spatial Algorithms
  • AI-Assisted / Agentic Development
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Latest writing

Notes on Swift 6 concurrency, SDK design, and iOS architecture.

17 min read

How Big-Name Companies Check Username Availability in Milliseconds

It is not a search, it is a keyed existence lookup. How indexes, Bloom filters, and caches make the check instant, and why correctness lives somewhere else entirely.

11 min read

From 0 to over 1,000 Unit Tests: The DI Framework Behind It

Why I built OrbitCore, an open-source Swift DI container with three retain policies, thread-safe lazy injection, and a test pattern that scaled past 1,000 unit tests.

8 min read

How I Built an Offline Photo Geocoding Engine That Clusters 8,000 Photos in Under 5 Seconds

Replacing Apple CLGeocoder with embedded GeoNames data, a K-D Tree, and a chain expansion algorithm to geocode and cluster thousands of photos offline in seconds.

8 min read

6 Problems With NSLocalizedString That Made Me Build LocalizationEngine SDK

Why Apple's built-in localization tools fall short for multi-language iOS apps, and the open-source Swift Package I built to fix them.

9 min read

Implementing Apple App Attest for iOS API Security - No More Static Secrets

How Apple App Attest replaces static shared secrets with per-device hardware keys in the Secure Enclave to secure iOS API requests.

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