Summary
Darren Findlay is an iOS Staff Engineer based in Glasgow with over a decade of hands-on experience building customer-facing and enterprise mobile apps using Swift and Objective-C. He has progressed from contractor to Head of Mobile and now staff-level roles at fintech startup Chip, delivering universal iOS and watchOS experiences while shaping mobile teams and architecture. Skilled in clean architecture, TDD, and object-oriented design, he also brings practical backend experience with PHP/Laravel, RESTful APIs, NoSQL, and frontend work in React/TypeScript. His career includes international product delivery across Europe, India and South Africa and leading white-label projects, reflecting an ability to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-grade apps. Notably, he blends deep platform knowledge of Apple HIG and coding guidelines with hiring and team-building experience, making him as effective mentoring engineers as he is writing production code.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HND software development Computer Software Engineering, HND software development Computer Software Engineering at Cardonald college
Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Computer Software Engineering at University of Glasgow
English