Ionut Lucaci
Senior iOS Engineer and Team Lead specializing in Swift & Objective-C. Skilled in building scalable apps across healthcare, social, eCommerce, and enterprise sectors, with expertise in MVVM, offline data handling, performance optimization, and backend integration.
EDUCATION
2007 – 2010
Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Science
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
EXPERTISE
WORK EXPERIENCE
2023 – Present
Senior iOS Engineer and Engineering Manager at Softbinator Technologies
Family Safety and Social Networking App – client from U.S. (San Francisco)
- Engineering Manager role
- Led a cross-functional team (iOS, Android, Java, SRE, QA) across subsidiaries
- Defined user stories, triaged bugs, and optimized sprints and workflows
- Managed release go/no-go decisions, removed blockers, and provided technical guidance
- Streamlined requirement clarification and cross-platform alignment
- Senior iOS Engineer Role
- Worked in an experimental team, gating features behind feature flags or A/B testing
- Refactored code for better readability and maintainability with separate presenters
- Developed a map ad placement algorithm, handling random ad placement, GPS data, and zoom level changes
- Migrated map screen persistence to Data Blade for structured data flows and async handling
- Ensured comprehensive unit test coverage across all projects
- Tech Stack: Swift, RIB architecture, RxSwift (migrating to Combine), migration to async/await in progress
2023 – Present
Senior iOS Engineer and Engineering Manager at Cegeka
- Doctor App: iOS app for doctors to access patient records, add multimedia/documents, and manage hospital presence. Built in Swift with MVVM, dependency injection, RxSwift, Realm, and Unrealm.
- Patient Companion App: Manages appointments, patient history, and associated patients (e.g., child/parent). Includes a web-based questionnaire renderer with a custom JS bridge. Built with the same stack as the doctor app.
- Clinical Trial App: iOS app for a Belgian pharmaceutical company replacing paper forms. Supports offline data collection and dynamic form generation via backend config. Developed in Swift with MVVM, dependency injection, RxSwift, and Realm.
2017-2018
iOS Software Engineer at Rockstars Development
- Child Healthcare App: iOS app for parents to manage appointments, reminders, and health data. Mixed Objective-C/Swift codebase, using Realm for local storage and backend API integration.
- TV Show Companion App: iOS app for a Romanian TV show, providing additional content via a native interface for web services, with no local storage.
2015-2017
iOS Software Engineer at Nordlogic
- Ad Library: iOS ad aggregator (20+ networks) optimizing monetization via CoreLocation and web services. Integrated into a PhoneGap app.
- Jailbreak Research: Call/text blocking for iOS 3 & 4 using Objective-C, C, and private API access.
- Food Ordering: iOS app integrating U.S. restaurants with MapKit and web service support.
- eCommerce: Proximity-based service marketplace for iOS using CoreLocation, MapKit, and CoreData.
- Messaging App: Cross-platform chat for macOS & Windows using C++, Qt, and SQLite.
- Task Manager: iOS app with configurable task workflows and rule-based validation.
- Social Network: iOS app linking venues, events, and user preferences via AddressBook.
2010-2015
iOS Software Engineer at Softvision
- Ad Library: iOS ad aggregator (20+ networks) optimizing monetization via CoreLocation and web services. Integrated into a PhoneGap app.
- Jailbreak Research: Call/text blocking for iOS 3 & 4 using Objective-C, C, and private API access.
- Food Ordering: iOS app integrating U.S. restaurants with MapKit and web service support.
- eCommerce: Proximity-based service marketplace for iOS using CoreLocation, MapKit, and CoreData.
- Messaging App: Cross-platform chat for macOS & Windows using C++, Qt, and SQLite.
- Task Manager: iOS app with configurable task workflows and rule-based validation.
- Social Network: iOS app linking venues, events, and user preferences via AddressBook.