Farzad Sharbafian
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFarzad Sharbafian is a Senior iOS Engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building and scaling consumer mobile products. He has led platform and feature teams at Bumble, shipping trust-and-safety features like Passkeys and ID verification, and has a track record of modernizing architectures, CI, and testing to improve velocity and code quality. As a former iOS team lead and co-founder, he blends hands-on Swift development with pragmatic leadership, mentoring teams and stepping into engineering management when needed. His background includes low-level video codec work on iOS and designing secure, high‑coverage payment SDKs, reflecting both systems and application-level expertise. He holds an MS in Artificial Intelligence and often approaches iOS problems with a performance- and architecture-first mindset rooted in academic rigor. Outside work he’s a Swift enthusiast and competitive sport programmer, bringing curiosity and disciplined problem solving to product challenges.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Mathematics and Physics, Diploma, Mathematics and Physics at Allame Tabatabai High SchoolMaster's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at Shahid Beheshti University
Persian, English
Stackoverflow
2,740reputation
178kreached
71answers
7questions
swift
top-5%
Github Skills (128)
programming-language10
swiftpm10
linter10
linting10
datasource10
swiftui10
rxswift10
ios-framework10
reactive10
animation10
swift-package-manager10
functional10
observer10
swift10
hero10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
farzadshbfn/POP
Dec 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
farzadshbfn/Hero
Mar 2019 - Jan 2020
Elegant transition library for iOS & tvOS
Contributions:2 pushes in 10 months
cocoapodsanimationtvostransitiontransition-library
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