Dmytro Starodubtsev

Senior iOS Engineer and Tech Lead with 12+ years architecting and shipping mobile applications used by millions, across payments, digital health, automotive navigation, embedded and connected devices (BLE, Wi-Fi), and retail. Currently driving the architecture of the Zelle payments module at Bank of America. Previously architected a Navigation iOS SDK now shipping in BMW and Audi vehicles, and designed a BLE protocol with a hardware team that cut device battery usage by 10%.

Pioneered AI-assisted development on our team, building an internal Claude-powered skill that generates accessibility fix code. Deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, iOS concurrency, and performance engineering, with a record of leading teams of up to 10 engineers and raising quality in regulated domains where correctness is not optional.

Senior iOS Software Engineer - Bank of America, US - US

(2025-05)

• Drove the end-to-end architecture of the Zelle payments module, a feature with strict security and compliance requirements serving millions of daily users, improving scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Cut the module's crash rate by 5% and raised unit-test coverage from 62% to 87%, partnering with teams across product, design, backend, and compliance.
• Built an internal AI skill using Claude that generates fix code for ADA accessibility text-size issues, accelerating compliance remediation across the iOS codebase.
• Mentored junior iOS engineers as tech lead through code reviews, architecture decisions, and best practices, raising overall team quality and velocity.

Senior iOS Software Engineer - Walmart, US - US

(2024-10 - 2025-05)

• Partnered with product, UX, and design to define and ship customer-facing features for one of the highest-traffic consumer apps in the United States.
• Reduced memory usage in image-heavy scroll components (carousels) by 7% by introducing a new image-fetching mechanism, improving scroll performance.
• Designed and implemented unit tests safeguarding feature stability, performance, and correctness.

Principal Software Engineer / iOS Tech Lead - Intellias (NDA customer, automotive)

(2022-04 - 2024-05)

• Led the architecture and development of a Navigation iOS SDK, platform-level infrastructure consumed by other engineering teams, owning API design, guiding peers, and driving adoption across integrations.
• Improved SDK performance by 20% through new architectural approaches, using Instruments to diagnose and resolve performance and concurrency bottlenecks.
• Delivered the SDK two weeks ahead of the planned launch. The SDK ships today in BMW and Audi vehicles.

Lead iOS Software Engineer - Swift Performance, Australia - Australia

(2023-02 - 2023-07)

Part-time contract, concurrent with Intellias

• Reverse-engineered a legacy application and migrated all functionality into the Syncro app, rewriting features in SwiftUI and integrating with the existing UIKit codebase using MVVM.
• Reduced third-party library dependencies by 30% through code analysis, improving app performance.

Lead iOS Software Engineer - Scaeva Technologies, US - US

(2019-10 - 2022-02)

• Designed a new application from scratch in SwiftUI and Combine with a reactive, concurrency-aware architecture.
• Designed a BLE communication protocol together with the hardware team that decreased device battery usage by 10%.

Lead iOS Software Engineer / Tech Lead - RMDY Health, US - US

(2019-02 - 2019-10)

• Led a team of 7 to 10 engineers in the end-to-end architecture and delivery of a HIPAA-accredited digital-health product, introducing MVVM architecture and security protocols that cut app crashes by 25%.
• Authored technical solution and architecture documents for enterprise clients and optimized development processes.

Senior iOS Software Engineer - Brightgrove, Ukraine - Ukraine

(2016-06 - 2019-01)

Outstaff

Lead iOS Developer - Sanitas, Zurich - Zurich

(2016-06 - 2019-01)

• Led a team of designers and engineers to rebuild the app from scratch in Swift and UIKit and stand up a new mobile engineering department. Active users grew 35% after the rebuild and the app won an award at the Swiss App Award.

Lead iOS Developer - mVISE, Düsseldorf and JobWare - Düsseldorf

(2016-06 - 2019-01)

• Introduced Scrum and coordination across web, design, and mobile teams that accelerated releases. Built apps from scratch including SwiftUI interfaces and Jenkins CI.

iOS Software Engineer - Quadecco, Ukraine - Ukraine

(2012-12 - 2016-05)

Outstaff

• Built iOS media applications for Viacom, including the Nickelodeon app and an MTV project, working on video playback with AVFoundation and implementing Arabic RTL localization.
• Shipped Files2Go, proposing and building asynchronous synchronization of stored files with the cloud.

Engineer and Adjuster, Subway Control and Traffic Safety Systems - SPNU-357

(2008-09 - 2012-10)

M.S. and B.S. - Computer Science - Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (2007 - 2008)

Certificate - Visual C++ Programming - V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (2002 - 2003)