Available: Immediate

Elite iOS Contract Engineer & Architect

Hi, I'm Paul Leo (MBA, MEng), founder of TapDigital. I've spent over 16 years shipping high-scale iOS applications. I specialize in modern Swift, SwiftUI, strict concurrency, serverless architectures, AI integrations, and Scrum Mastery.

Contracting Status

IR35 Status Outside IR35
Target Rate £600 / day
Location Durham, UK / Remote
App Store Track 3x UK No.1s, 2x Top 10s
16+

Years on App Store

Shipping robust native code since SDK launch in 2008

3x

No. 1 App Store Hits

Burger King, Met Office, and Ekstra Bladet (Danish App of the Year)

IoT & AR

Emerging Expert

Bespoke pose estimation, Bluetooth sports IoT, and AI toolchains

Recent Contract Engagements

A timeline of premium technical deliveries spanning startup architectures, IoT hardware, and high-scale consumer apps.

Senior iOS Engineer

Hypercare Systems (ANGii)
2025 – Present

Architected and coded a greenfield SwiftUI app in pure MVVM supporting dementia care, fully optimized for the Swift 6.3 strict concurrency model.

  • Designed and engineered a custom RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline using OpenAI & Claude APIs to serve tailored support content.
  • Integrated Factory Dependency Injection and Supabase backend.
  • Established rigorous BDD testing patterns with Quick & Nimble, and automated the CI pipeline using Fastlane.

Senior iOS Engineer

Powervault
2025

Designed and shipped custom iOS and Android Installer utility apps built in SwiftUI MVVM to configure home-battery IoT systems.

  • Re-architected the system's infrastructure to event-driven serverless on AWS, implementing a GraphQL API on AWS Lambda written in Rust.
  • Integrated Factory DI, AWS Cognito, Amplify SDK, AppSync, and Cloud Firestore.

Senior iOS Engineer

Peerwalk
2024

Engineered an agentic-AI iPad and macOS companion application enabling development teams to perform rapid, continuous, over-the-shoulder code reviews.

  • Built complex local-to-cloud workflows integrating with the GitHub API, Firestore, and multiple LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini).
  • Leveraged Factory DI and modern Swift Concurrency.

Senior iOS Engineer

zkFaith (Soonami.io)
2023

Designed and built an iOS cryptographic identity demonstrator application highlighting zero-knowledge-proof (ZKP) privacy protocols for personal credentials.

  • Integrated a custom Rust cryptography library using Noir to compile zero-knowledge proofs on-device.
  • Implemented OnFido identity verification, biometric Face ID security, Firestore, and QR-code generation.

iOS Lead & Technical Architect

Chelsea Digital Ventures (Chelsea FC)
2019 – 2022

Served as Lead Technical Architect directing architecture across four flagship products for Chelsea Football Club's innovation arm.

  • Blue Fuel: Professional-grade sports nutrition app serving elite athletes (iOS/Android).
  • Perfect Play: Gamified training application featuring a custom computer-vision pose-estimation algorithm running inside an ARKit environment.
  • C-Score: Health suite with on-device camera heart-rate tracking, AR body metrics, and a SwiftUI-based reaction game.
  • Footwork: App pairing via CoreBluetooth with an IoT-enabled exercise ball to log active training sessions.

iOS Lead & Architect

Snatch Media Inc.
2017 – 2018

Built the Snatch AR gaming app (reaching the UK App Store Top 10 with over 1M+ active players).

  • Engineered highly responsive frontends using VIPER on both iOS and Android (Kotlin).
  • Designed event-driven geospatial systems using AWS serverless architectures (SNS/SQS/Lambda), DynamoDB, and Firestore.

Core Technical Specialities

An elite developer's toolbelt refined across nearly two decades of production deployment and enterprise integrations.

Core iOS Stack

Swift (6.x Strict) SwiftUI UIKit Swift Concurrency async/await Combine Actors / Sendable Factory DI MVVM & VIPER Core Data SPM

Testing & Operations

XCTest XCUITest Quick & Nimble BDD / TDD Fastlane Bitrise GitHub Actions TestFlight Agile (PSM I & II) Scrum Master

Cloud & Backend

AWS Lambda Rust (on Lambda) GraphQL (AppSync) DynamoDB Firebase (Firestore) Supabase AWS Cognito / Cognito REST APIs Zero-Knowledge Proofs

AI & Hardware IoT

OpenAI / Claude APIs Gemini Integration Custom RAG Pipelines Agentic-AI Tooling ARKit / SceneKit Pose-Estimation CV CoreBluetooth (IoT) Face ID Biometrics

Featured Case Studies

Deep architectural dives into our complex, production-hardened engineering projects.

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Peerwalk App

An agentic-AI powered iPad and macOS desktop application transforming code review workflows. It enables instant automated diagnostics, BDD coverage analysis, and architectural suggestions in real time.

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Chelsea FC Digital Suite

Serving as Lead Architect for Chelsea FC's digital innovation hub to build, deploy, and scale four distinct products combining on-device computer vision, iOS Bluetooth IoT integrations, and SwiftUI games.

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LinkedIn Recommendations

Professional accolades from executives, engineering leads, and stakeholders who have scaled products with Paul.

"Paul brought a rare combination of high level strategic thinking and execution to Hypercare. By introducing the JTBD methodology, he completely reimagined what AI could achieve for our business and our users. He brought immense expertise in both mobile product architecture and practical, value driven AI integration. Paul didn't just build a pilot app, he fundamentally transformed our product direction."

Brendan Goss
Head of Commissioning & Field Service – LNG | Hydrogen | HVDC & Grid

"Paul has been contracting for Powervault Ltd. He has created a highly intuitive initial installer app on iOS devices. Managed and performed an audit of Powervault systems, showing where we needed assistance and where we were strong. He created the workflow and initial outlines for a major new app project of which we intend to start developing soon. Helped us with adopting Agile processes and methodologies. I cannot rate Paul highly enough, he is hugely talented and is a great asset."

Steve Lavache
CTO Powervault Ltd

"I had the pleasure of working with Paul at two different companies, and in both instances, he consistently impressed me with his approach and professionalism. Paul is highly goal-oriented, combining strong technical expertise with a clear understanding of user needs. He does not just focus on delivering solutions. He thoughtfully considers the end audience, ensuring that the products he works on are effective and user-friendly. He is detail-oriented and approaches challenges with a logical, structured mindset, which allows him to deliver high-quality results consistently. Beyond his technical and analytical strengths, Paul is also open, trustworthy, and a great collaborator. I would welcome the opportunity to work with Paul again and strongly recommend him to any team looking for a reliable and thoughtful professional."

Yota Wada
Senior Product Development & Investment Professional

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