Summary
Roberto Garrido is a Senior iOS Architect and independent contractor with 11 years of experience delivering production-grade iOS apps for startups and global clients such as Mozilla, EdCast, and RosterBuster. He specializes in Swift and Objective-C, applying clean architectures like MVVM and VIPER to prioritize maintainability and testability across complex codebases. As owner of Irakai Studio and a long-term freelance contributor, he blends hands-on development with architecture and mentorship, including teaching advanced iOS topics at KeepCoding. His background in C++ graphics and augmented reality research gives him a strong systems-level perspective uncommon among mobile engineers, useful for performance-critical UI and multimedia features. Based in Bilbao, he excels at remote, cross-border collaboration and rapidly ramping into legacy codebases to deliver reliable releases. Reachable for teams needing senior iOS capacity, he brings both startup agility and disciplined engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio Vizcaya
Comparable to Honours Bachelor Degree (NFQ Level 8) Programaci贸n inform谩tica bases de datos administraci贸n de sistemas, Comparable to Honours Bachelor Degree (NFQ Level 8) Programaci贸n inform谩tica bases de datos administraci贸n de sistemas at University of Deusto
M.Sc. Augmented Reality Interaction Cultural Heritage, M.Sc. Augmented Reality Interaction Cultural Heritage at Universidad del Pa铆s Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spanish, English, French, Basque