Summary
Braden Hancock is a Senior iOS Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing mobile apps and leading mobile teams across healthcare, media, and security-focused companies. He has progressed from graduate roles at Sky to leadership positions at Doctor Care Anywhere and now iProov, combining hands-on Swift/Objective-C development with recruitment, line management and delivery ownership. Braden excels at modern iOS architectures (MVVM-C, VIP), CI/CD, feature flagging and raising engineering standards via tooling like Sonar, SwiftLint and automated test coverage. He has a track record of shipping tight MVPs, iterating quickly with product teams, and embedding analytics and error logging to drive data-informed decisions and faster debugging. Notably, he scaled a mobile team from 4 to 14 engineers while maintaining delivery cadence and introduced Swift 5 components to phase out legacy Objective-C safely. He holds a First Class BSc in Computer Science and brings a pragmatic blend of technical depth, process discipline and mentoring ethos.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Game Development, Distinction, Distinction, Merit (Equivalent to AAC A levels), Computer Game Development, Distinction, Distinction, Merit (Equivalent to AAC A levels) at South Thames College
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science with Professional Practice, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science with Professional Practice, First Class Honours at Brunel University
English