Scott Symes

About

Recently relocated from Australia to Seattle with a greencard and bringing a wealth of Mobile development experience. Scott's a keen cyclist and loves the outdoors.

Mobile App Developer.

Scott Symes is a seasoned app developer with a rich portfolio of experiences spanning from FinTech to startups and everything in between. Past roles include building interface for the seamless integration of Bluetooth© connectivity, delivering multiple iterations of product within the landscape of social media platforms, and navigating the dynamic requirements as the developer in the most used Covid tracking app in Australia. Demonstrating a commitment to staying at the forefront of technology, Scott has adeptly navigated from Android to iOS. With a keen eye for innovation and a passion for creating transformative digital experiences, Scott's expertise shines through in every project he undertakes. His dedication to excellence and relentless pursuit of mastery make him a valuable asset to any team or project.

Skills

Having professionally written Swift (and some Kotlin) for the last few years, I've also enjoyed learning Python and Javascript for various personal projects and the satisfaction of learning new languages.

Swift 96%

Kotlin 75%

Java 70%

JavaScript 40%

Python 40%

Objective C 60%

Xcode 96%

UIKit 90%

SwiftUI 90%

Resume

Senior Mobile Engineer with 10+ years of expertise building performant, scalable mobile apps in Swift, SwiftUI and UIKit. Proven success leading cross-functional teams, optimizing CI/CD workflows, and delivering consumer-facing products used by millions. Deep experience in fintech, health tech and IoT domains. U.S. Green Card holder, recently relocated to Seattle.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer (iOS)

Jul. 2024 – Present

Atlas Mobility

Refactored legacy codebase from singletons and static accessors to a protocol-oriented architecture using dependency injection, enabling unit testing of previously untestable code.
Migrated Xamarin codebase to native Swift, achieving 80%+ unit test coverage.
Led trunk-based development process, introduced feature-flagging, and enhanced CI/CD with Azure DevOps.
Implemented shift-left QA strategy and established rigorous code review standards.
Leveraged AI tools extensively to accelerate feature development and reduce boilerplate.

Senior Software Engineer (iOS)

Jul. 2022 – Nov. 2023

Davidson Technology

Led an iOS squad in developing the app's landing screen, implementing innovative features for accounts, financial wellbeing and savings goals.
Spearheaded in-app promotion of savings goal creation. This resulted in an 8% increase in creation of new savings goals.
Collaborated with senior leadership to develop high-level roadmap features.

Senior Software Engineer (Mobile)

Jan. 2021 – Jul. 2022

Two Bulls (now DEPT)

Led the iOS development of the Service Victoria Digital Wallet app, a state-of-the-art COVID contact tracing solution, supporting the efforts of the state of Victoria, Australia in managing the pandemic, prioritising user experience, security and privacy.
App featured an AppClip launched by QR code. It was the highest use AppClip in the Asia-Pacific region, and in the top 5 globally. The app was the most downloaded app in Australia in 2021, at its peak registered up to 8.1 million check-ins a day and more than 6 million digital vaccination certificates have been added to the app.
Guided junior developers in assisting wiht unit-testing and refactoring code into a protocol-oriented structure.
Streamlined development process by migrating to Swift Package Manager and leveraging local package, reducing onboarding, setup and build times and enabling seamless integration of new features and updates, while reducing load times by ~7.5s.
Assisted client with bringing development in-house and growing the team from 1 developer per-platform, to 14 per-platform. Working with in-house developers and contractors from other agencies.

Mobile Application Developer

Jul. 2020 – Jan. 2021

Davey Water

App development with iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) integrating with internet of things (IoT) water products.
iOS & Android development of app featuring Bluetooth (BLE) connectivity for cloud connected IoT Pool Chlorinator system. Working alongside electronics engineers.

Mobile Application Developer

Jan. 2019 – Jul. 2020

Lyf App

Headed up app development for iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin & Java) for a social media app, Lyf
Introduced new features including specs for API requirements.
Restructured project management practices to Lyf to move toward agile workflows.

Web Application Developer

Dec. 2018 – May. 2019

RMIT University

Full-stack development for an internal 'teaching reflection' tool for use by staff in the College of Science, Engineering & Health.
Front-end development in ReactJS
Back-end using Express / GraphQL

Mobile Application Developer

Sep. 2018 – Dec. 2018

RMIT University

Pilot study to develop an app for students to log work placement hours. This integerated with the university's LMS, 'Instructure Canvas'.
App developed natively for iOS & Android (Swift / Kotlin).
Consulted with the key stakeholders to determine requirements.
Directed the internal multimedia team on assisting with UX/UI development.
Worked with RMIT IT services to ensure privacy and secutiry compliance.
Managed the project and instructed colleagues on agile methodology.

Mobile Application Developer

Aug. 2017 – Sep. 2018

We Make Apps

Digital App Agency. Developed apps for iOS & Android.

Developed in both native (Swift / Objective C & Kotlin / Java) and cross-platform with Xamarin (C#).
Created apps ranging from Mobile Phone recharge (Aldi Mobile) to interfacing with Bluetooth devices.

Research & Design Lead

Nov. 2015 – Aug. 2017

Hux Connect

Developed distributed sensor network for an IoT building monitoring system startup.
Electronics development and scalable production 'design for manufacture'.
Created hardware development roadmap. Implemented production tracking system. Increased value proposition of product with improved sensor array & reliability.
Firmware development in C/C++ (AVR & Cortex-M) and embedded Linux utilizing NodeJS, Python and Shell scripts.
Collaborated with backend (AWS) and analytics colleagues to help develop key insights from dataset.
Prototyping all devices physical and electronic using 3D printing, custom PCBs, laser cutting, 3D CAD.