§ 00 / Introduction

Ali Fayed— Senior iOS Engineer

Five and a half years designing, developing and shipping high-traffic iOS work across fintech, e-commerce and open source. Expert in Xcode, Swift 6, SwiftUI, UIKit, KMP and Clean Architecture, with deep experience in modern concurrency and AI coding with Claude Code and Codex.

Solo developer and publisher of Finlytix on the App Store — a premium personal-finance app for the MENA and international market, featuring an in-app assistant that speaks the Egyptian Arabic dialect, powered with AI.

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§ 01  /  About

Engineering with precision.

Senior iOS Engineer, five and a half years in production. I ship software with tolerances, not approximations — secure-by-default, modular, and tested.

NameAli Ahmed Ali Fayed
RoleSenior iOS Engineer
CompanyBanque Misr · Hybrid
Solo AppFinlytix · App Store
DegreeBachelor of Mechatronics · GPA 3.1
SchoolMansoura University
LocationCairo, Egypt

Five and a half years deep in fintech, e-commerce & open-source iOS apps.

As a Senior iOS Engineer at Banque Misr, I work on BM Online — the bank's flagship retail app, 1M+ active users — alongside a multinational team across product, design, backend and security.

My work spans biometric auth via LocalAuthentication, device binding with CryptoKit, card-less ATM withdrawal, SoftToken on-device 2FA, self-registration onboarding, and the VIP & Youth segment experiences. I also spent a year on the production support squad as on-call iOS engineer.

On my own time, I'm the solo developer and publisher of Finlytix on the App Store — a premium personal-finance app for MENA, with an in-app assistant that speaks Egyptian Arabic, powered with AI.

5.5+
Years in iOS
5
Apps shipped
3
Sectors served
§ 02  /  Experience

A career of building & shipping.

Two full-time roles that defined the work — banking at scale today, with governmental apps and tourism platforms before that.

2023 — Present
CURRENT

Senior iOS Engineer

Banque Misr · Full-time · Cairo (Hybrid)
BM Online ↗

Working on BM Online, the bank's flagship retail app — 1M+ active users — collaborating with a multinational team across product, design, backend and security. Architected and shipped features using UIKit, SwiftUI, RxSwift, Combine, Swinject (DI) and Clean Architecture. Implemented Face ID and Touch ID via LocalAuthentication, built device binding with CryptoKit, and shipped card-less ATM withdrawal, the BM VIP and BM Youth segment experiences, SoftToken on-device 2FA, and self-registration onboarding. Authored XCTest suites, integrated Firebase Crashlytics, and served over a year on the production support squad as on-call iOS engineer.

2021 — 2023
2 YEARS

iOS Engineer

Fixed Solutions · Full-time · Cairo (Remote)
EEHC ↗

Built the Egyptian Electricity Services (EEHC) app — 100K+ App Store downloads — with UIKit and Redux for predictable state. Shipped the Visitors app for KSA museums and religious sites — 200K+ downloads, localized into 7 languages — using MVVM, UIKit and SwiftUI. Refactored 7 production screens from UIKit to SwiftUI in a phased migration. Built an in-app Visitor Chatbot from scratch in SwiftUI, backed by a REST conversational API, and contributed to the Haramain app for visitors to the Grand Mosque of Mecca.

§ 03  /  Solo Product

The product I ship solo.

Designed, built, and published end-to-end. Concept, architecture, implementation, store, support — no team, no investors.

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Personal finance · iOS · MENA · Solo

Finlytix

A premium personal-finance app for the Egyptian market and the wider MENA region, with a dark-luxury identity. Net-worth tracking, live gold / FX / crypto in EGP, budgeting, subscription and commitment tracking. Bilingual Arabic and English with full RTL/LTR. Finny, the in-app assistant, speaks Egyptian Arabic — powered with AI. SMS bank-transaction parsing for CIB, NBE and Banque Misr, plus 14 App Intent structs for Siri Shortcuts and voice automation.

Download on theApp Store Coming soon onGoogle Play
RoleSolo developer · designer · publisher
StackSwift 6 · SwiftUI · SwiftData
BackendSupabase · Cloudflare Workers
BillingStoreKit 2 · RevenueCat · Lifetime IAP
AIEgyptian-Arabic in-app assistant
StoreApp Store · /eg/finlytix →
Sitefinlytix-app.com →
2026 — Present
SOLO PUBLISHER

Solo Developer & Publisher

Finlytix · App Store
Finlytix · App Store ↗ finlytix-app.com ↗

Sole owner of Finlytix from concept to App Store — product, engineering, design, backend, App Store Connect lifecycle, support and growth. No team, no investors.

2024 — Present
AI WORKFLOW

AI Product Engineering

Daily-driver pair-programming
Claude Code ↗ Codex ↗ Gemini ↗ Opencode ↗

Adopted AI as a product-engineering discipline early. Daily-driver workflows with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and Opencode across Finlytix and side projects — for refactors, test generation, architecture spike reviews, long-context audits and bilingual UI iteration. Disciplined about review and tests: AI as a force-multiplier, not a substitute for engineering judgment.

§ 04  /  Skills

The right tool, deliberately chosen.

Daily-driver skills. Nothing here for hype.

Languages & Frameworks 07

  • 01Xcode · Android Studio · VS CodeIDEs
  • 02Swift 6 · Objective-CLanguages
  • 03Kotlin MultiplatformCross-platform
  • 04SwiftUI · UIKitUI frameworks
  • 05SwiftData · Core Data · CloudKitPersistence · sync
  • 06RxSwift · Combine · async/await · ActorsReactive · Concurrency
  • 07WidgetKit · MapKit · Core AnimationNative UI

Architecture & Patterns 07

  • 01Clean ArchitectureLayered
  • 02MVVMDefault
  • 03MVCClassic UIKit
  • 04MVP · VIPBanking apps
  • 05ReduxGovernmental apps
  • 06ModularizationScaled codebases
  • 07SOLID · Design PatternsDiscipline

AI Tools & Models 04

  • 01Claude CodePrimary CLI
  • 02Codex · Gemini CLI · OpencodeAlt CLIs
  • 03Claude · GPT · GeminiFrontier models
  • 04GLM · DeepSeek · Kimi · QwenOpen-weight models

Backend & Release 05

  • 01SupabasePostgres · auth · storage
  • 02FirebaseCrashlytics · analytics
  • 03Cloudflare WorkersEdge backend
  • 04RevenueCat · OneSignal · AdMobMonetization · engagement
  • 05XCTest · Fastlane · App Store ConnectQuality · CI · release
§ 05  /  Apps

Shipped to the App Store.

Five apps in production. Solo, team, and contributor work — combined reach above 1.3M users.

All apps 05

  • 01 Finlytix ↗ Solo · 2026 — Present Premium personal finance
  • 02 BM Online ↗ Banque Misr · Team 1M+ active users
  • 03 Egyptian Electricity Services (EEHC) ↗ Fixed Solutions 100K+ downloads
  • 04 Visitors · KSA museums & sites Fixed Solutions 200K+ · 7 languages
  • 05 Haramain · Mecca pilgrimage Fixed Solutions Contributed
§ 06  /  Contact

Need a direct line?

Open for consulting engagements and project work. Quickest reply at aliifayed97@gmail.com — or pick the channel that fits below.

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