Senior iOS Engineer · Toronto, ON
Fernando Gallo
Senior iOS engineer — 14 years shipping apps at PayPal, Greenlight and others. On the side, I design and build small, focused iOS apps and share the progress in public.
Previously at PayPal · Greenlight · Mosaic
Goal
Road to $1k MRR$0→ $1k
Alongside my engineering work, I build small iOS apps on the side and share the journey in public. The first one is on the way — with $1k MRR as the north star.
Just getting started · first app launching soon
Apps
Currently shippingBurpee
Coming soon
A no-bullshit burpee tracker. Count reps, build a streak, beat yesterday.
Burpee · screenshot
G1 Pro
In development
Practice for the Ontario G1 driver licence test. Real questions, smart review, offline.
G1 Pro · screenshot
Experience
14 years of iOS2025 — Present
Independent
iOS Developer · Side Projects · Toronto, ON
- Designing and building small, focused iOS apps — Burpee and G1 Pro.
- Building in public, working toward a first launch.
May 2024 — Aug 2025
PayPal
Senior iOS Engineer (Contract) · San Jose, CA · Remote
- Co-led iOS squad; shipped PayPal Link to millions of users.
- Built core flows for Money Pools across US, DE, IT, ES.
- Cut unit test run-time by 90%.
Aug 2023 — May 2024
Greenlight
Senior iOS Engineer (Contract) · Atlanta, GA · Remote
- Built SwiftUI features partnering with PM/Design/Backend.
- Shipped driving-behavior tracking with 80%+ coverage.
- Owned the new account plans experience end-to-end.
Jan 2022 — Dec 2022
Mosaic
Senior iOS Engineer (Contract) · Phoenix, AZ · Remote
- Built an internal iOS app for construction managers in Swift/SwiftUI.
- Reusable Swift Package of UI components.
- Unit-testing initiative → ~90% coverage, fewer prod issues.
Nov 2019 — Jan 2022
AmiGo
Lead iOS Engineer (Contract) · New York, NY · Remote
- Led iOS from zero to launch, reporting to C-level.
- Reached 100K users; helped secure $50M+ in investment.
- Established CI/CD + observability (Bitrise, Firebase, Instabug).
Jun 2011 — Oct 2019
Samsung · Venturus · BuildBox
iOS Software Engineer · Campinas, SP · Brazil
- Developed and maintained iOS apps across multiple companies.
Skills & education
ToolboxCore stack
Swift
SwiftUI
UIKit
XCTest
Combine
Async/Await
MVVM
Clean Architecture
Fastlane
Firebase
Education
IBU — International Business University
MBA in Information Systems Management
UNICAMP
BS in Computer Science