CV
Boris Yurkevich
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I excel at solving problems that require refining technical specifications with stakeholders, collaborating with developers and designers, and proposing industry-leading practices. I have strong skills in OOP, systems design, debugging (LLDB, Xcode Instruments), accessibility, networking (REST), writing asynchronous code (async-await, Combine), UI (SwiftUI, UIKit).
Currently employed at Compare the Market.
10+ years of experience.
Work Experience
Director @ Cocoa Productions London, UK
2025 — present
- Caffeine++ personal health app
- LinkEdit: file management and text editing app for Mac, iPhone, and Vision
- Pinbook: password manager for iPhone and Apple Watch
iOS developer L3 @ Compare the Market London, UK
March 2026 — Present
- Collaborated with web journeys team to deliver context-aware AI assistant in native mobile app
- Configured and adopted Spec Kit driven development (SDD)
- Appium UI testing
- Mobile assistant redesign
- Releases every 2 weeks
Senior iOS contractor @ Hargreaves Landsdown London, UK
Nov 2025 — March 2026
Amplitude analytics
Senior iOS contractor @ Ford Motor Company London, UK
2021 — 2025
- Ford Pro leading end-to-end epics
- Mentored junior developer at FordPass Pro project
- Xcode modules (Tuist), dependency management
- Snapshots testing, iterative Agile development
- Releases every 2 weeks
iOS developer @ IG Markets Ltd London, UK
2018 — 2021
- Mobile client for 3D Secure online payments
- Web sockets live data streaming Lightstreamer
- Xcode workspace dependencies management, Carthage, SPM
- Migrated from Objective-C to Swift
iOS developer @ Glance Creative Ltd London, UK
2017 — 2018
- Video fitness training app with a chat-bot from start to finish, led REST API design
- Local multiplayer game with Core Bluetooth
- Swift
iOS developer @ Locassa Ltd (London, UK)
2015 — 2016
- Shipped and maintained iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch apps
- Objective-C
iOS developer @ Videoloft Ltd Oxford, UK
2014 — 2015
- Auto Layout UI work, IAP, pair programming
- Objective-C, pre-ARC
Java developer @ Interprocom Moscow, Russia
2012 — 2014
Java web portal, Java, Tomcat, IBM DB2, Linux
Web developer @ Profiline Moscow, Russia
2012
PHP website, JavaScript, CSS and HTML
Education
Masters in Computing @ Oxford Brookes Oxford, UK
2014 — 2015
- Master of Science Dissertation “A tablet application for testing attention”
- Open source
Bachelor’s in Teaching and Psychology @ MSUPE
2007 — 2012
- Dissertation “Cross-Individual Psychological Structures and the Phenomenon of Anthropomorphization in Joint Activity”
- Published article
Miscellaneous
- UK citizen
- References are available upon request
Keywords: SOLID, MVVM, MVC, VIPER, TCA, Router, Repository, Presenter, feature flags, Unit testing, UI testing, XCTests, XCUITests, Swift Tests
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