Askar Mustafin
Teamlead at Halyk Bank
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolAskar Mustafin is a senior iOS engineer and team lead with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-impact telecom and fintech apps, including products that reached 500K+ monthly users. He combines hands-on Swift/Objective-C craft with pragmatic architecture choices (MVVM/VIPER/Coordinator), CI/CD, feature flags, and strong automated testing to move fast without sacrificing quality. Comfortable across networking (REST, WebSockets, GraphQL), security (SSL pinning), observability and AVFoundation, he has shipped eSIM, payments, KYC, and biometric flows. Proven as a multiplier—mentoring, running code reviews, and aligning product/design/QA—he has led teams at VEON, IZI app, QazCode and now Halyk Bank. Based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he’s particularly effective at taking greenfield products from zero to scale while keeping long-term maintainability front of mind.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at IITU - International university of information technologies
Kazakh, English, Russian
Github Skills (36)
progress-hud10
cocoapods10
ios9
objective-c9
xcode9
swift8
carthage8
networking8
swift-package-manager8
xcode-templates7
side-menu7
alamofire7
urlsession7
certificate-pinning7
public-key-pinning6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Asich/chat-part-four
May 2015 - Dec 2019
Simple chat on Node.js, deployed on heroku.com, keep data in to MongoLab. With help of express,js, socket.io, mongoose.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
herokusocketkeepsocket-ioexpressjs
Asich/AMTumblrHud
May 2014 - Nov 2016
Progress HUD inspired by Tumblr app
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 6 months
progress-hudiosobjective-c
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