Owais Quadri

Senior Software Engineer at The Pillars Group. Led a 4-person team behind a flagship app with 100K+ DAU and 2M+ lifetime downloads. Previously the only iOS engineer at ADP for the first year. Took crash-free users from 97% to 99.8%.

Launched

Pillars' first paid subscription on RevenueCat and StoreKit 2. Onboarding paywall converts around 7%. Strong on Apple platforms (SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, StoreKit 2, WidgetKit, App Intents, watchOS, visionOS) and own CI/CD.

Senior Software Engineer (Full-time) at The Pillars Group Ltd. (2025-08 – Present)

• Led a 4-engineer mobile team shipping iOS and Flutter features at 100K+ DAU, owning final code review and QA approval on every production release.
• Grew the flagship iOS app from 250K to 2M+ downloads and 100K+ daily active users through SwiftUI feature delivery, performance optimization, and reliability work.
• Launched the company's first paid subscription using RevenueCat and StoreKit 2, hitting ~7% onboarding paywall conversion and starting the first recurring revenue stream.
• Doubled release frequency by introducing Firebase Remote Config feature flags and staged rollouts on both iOS and Android.
• Cut release overhead 30% by writing zsh automation for build pipelines, TestFlight notes, and changelog generation.
• Established code review and QA standards, branching strategy, and on-call rotation for the mobile team.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract, nights and weekends) at The Pillars Group Ltd. (2023-10 – 2025-07)

• Led a 4-engineer mobile team shipping iOS and Flutter features at 100K+ DAU, owning final code review and QA approval on every production release.
• Grew the flagship iOS app from 250K to 2M+ downloads and 100K+ daily active users through SwiftUI feature delivery, performance optimization, and reliability work.
• Launched the company's first paid subscription using RevenueCat and StoreKit 2, hitting ~7% onboarding paywall conversion and starting the first recurring revenue stream.
• Doubled release frequency by introducing Firebase Remote Config feature flags and staged rollouts on both iOS and Android.
• Cut release overhead 30% by writing zsh automation for build pipelines, TestFlight notes, and changelog generation.
• Established code review and QA standards, branching strategy, and on-call rotation for the mobile team.

Software Engineer at ADP (WorkMarket) (2024-03 – 2025-07)

• Raised crash-free users from 97% to 99.8% as sole iOS engineer in year one by replacing an unmaintained third-party iPad UI library with native Swift and fixing memory leaks with Instruments.
• Cut Dev and QA integration time ~50% by building CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, Python, and Fastlane.
• Shipped custom forced and flexible in-app update flows and integrated the iOS app with ADP's internal AIM SSO, eliminating support overhead for legacy versions.
• Expanded addressable users ~14% by bringing the iOS app to WCAG and AODA standards on SwiftUI and UIKit screens.
• Reduced production incidents 25% by tightening release criteria with Android and QA partners.

Associate Application Developer at ADP (WorkMarket) (2022-09 – 2024-03)

• Raised crash-free users from 97% to 99.8% as sole iOS engineer in year one by replacing an unmaintained third-party iPad UI library with native Swift and fixing memory leaks with Instruments.
• Cut Dev and QA integration time ~50% by building CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, Python, and Fastlane.
• Shipped custom forced and flexible in-app update flows and integrated the iOS app with ADP's internal AIM SSO, eliminating support overhead for legacy versions.
• Expanded addressable users ~14% by bringing the iOS app to WCAG and AODA standards on SwiftUI and UIKit screens.
• Reduced production incidents 25% by tightening release criteria with Android and QA partners.

Junior Technical Analyst (Co-op) at Ontario Government (Ministry of Transportation) (2021-05 – 2021-08)

• Improved release stability ~10% by closing 250+ test cases per month across regression, smoke, functional, and accessibility suites (AODA, WCAG 2.0).

B.Eng. (Hons) in Software Engineering, IoT Specialization – Ontario Tech University (2022)

Nights & Weekends Season 4 in 6-week builder cohort – Buildspace (2023-08 – 2023-09)