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About Me

I’m a self-starter who embraces challenges.

I’m an iOS and macOS app developer with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I embrace challenges, am intrinsically motivated, and passionate about my craft.

Career

Shared Founder
July 2020 - Present

  • Solely responsible for all aspects of design, development, and distribution.
  • Released over 45 versions on the App Store since July 2020.
  • Maintained a 4.8 star average rating.
  • Redesigned the app in SwiftUI in early 2024, completely overhauling the onboarding and settings pages for a vastly improved user experience.
  • Utilised ShazamKit for seamless song recognition.
  • Utilised ActivityKit for Live Activities for song identification and music/podcast lookup.
  • Utilised the Shared with You framework to surface Shared links sent in Messages.
  • Integrated with Song.link, Apple Music, Deezer, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts APIs for comprehensive music and podcast matching across multiple services.
  • Integrated with Spotlight, allowing users to search their history from iOS or macOS's native search functionality.
  • Integrated with Siri, Shortcuts, and Control Centre, providing users with convenient voice-activated commands and workflow actions.
  • Integrated with the Apple Music and Podcasts APIs for in-app service searching.
  • Designed and implemented Home and Lock Screen Widgets.
  • Successfully launched a subscription model using RevenueCat.
  • Leveraged Firebase Dynamic Links to facilitate user-to-user sharing of music and podcast links.
  • Developed a Safari Extension to open links from supported services in Shared.

Glucode Intermediate iOS Engineer
March 2024 - Present
Glucode Junior iOS Engineer
October 2023 - March 2024

  • Implemented a major redesign of a social mapping app in SwiftUI.
  • Actively participated in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to improve code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
  • Provided technical guidance and mentorship to fellow developers, fostering a collaborative and supportive team environment.
  • Successfully implemented passkey authentication using the Authentication Services framework and seamlessly integrated it with a backend system, enhancing the app’s security and user experience.
  • Developed a robust content reporting feature using Firebase, enabling users to flag inappropriate content and ensuring a safe and positive user experience.
  • Actively contributed to design and feature decisions, providing valuable insights that led to improved user experience.

Isazi Consulting Solutions Hacker
March 2022 - October 2023

Isazi Consulting is an Artificial Intelligence company based in Johannesburg. It is an innovative tech company that solves difficult, real world challenges across various industries through building machine learning and advanced analytics software solutions. The primary function of the Solutions Hacker role is to design and build, with immense speed, technical solutions to solve customer specific problems.

In2it technologies Software Development Intern
November 2019 - January 2020

In2IT Technologies is a multi-national company that offers AI, IoT, Big Data, and Cloud Services to various industries. I was a part of a team that was developing a web-based, automated, AI chatbot system for ticket management. I aided in developing the AI model using Python and PyTorch, and the web-interface using Service Now and Flask Socket IO.

Education

University of Cape Town BSc(Eng) Electrical and Computer Engineering
2017 - 2020

The University of Cape Town is a public reasearch university in Cape Town, South Africa. I graduated with a 80% cumulative GPA, achieving First Class Honours. I was selected for Dean’s Merit List and invited to join the Golden Key Society by being in the top 15% in my course.

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Bishops National Senior Certificatee
2012 - 2016

Bishops is an independent, all-boys, boarding and day high school in Rondebosch, Cape Town. I matriculated with 7 distinctions, achieving a 89% average. I was awarded half and full academic colors, was a part of the Ten Club — Top 10 in Matric — Chair of the African Relations Society, and in my final year, was awarded the Gorham Mathematics Prize and Gray House Old Boys’ Prize for Additional Maths.

Belmont Hill School Exchange
October - December 2014

Belmont Hill School is an independent, all-boys, boarding and day school in Belmont, Massachusetts. Belmont Hill and Bishops run an exchange program and in my grade 10 year, I was selected by Bishops to attend Belmont Hill.

Skills

I focus on crafting applications that are both functional and easy to use.

I am a capable programmer and UI designer with experience coding in multiple languages. I taught myself native iOS and macOS development in Swift while building Shared. Additionally, I have work experience in Dart, HTML, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Vue, Go, and SQL, Flutter, and extensive experience using Git for version control. In addition to coding, I am also proficient in LaTeX and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications.

Portfolio

A selection of projects I have worked on.

iOS Development

Shared

App Store Link

Shared is an iOS App that lets users open music and podcast links from one service in another.

FPGA, Verilog, Cryptography

VADER

Code Repository

Using an FPGA, we built a hardware-accelerated system to recover MD5-hashed passwords. Our testing showed our implementation achieved a 2.86× average speedup over a PC implementation.

Music, Machine Learning, Tensorflow

Music Genre Identification

A CNN was trained used to classify songs by genre using a spectogram of the first 30s of each song. The model training was done using Google Colab and the songs were provided by the Free Music Archive dataset.

Signal Processing, Analogue Circuits, Arduino

2D Direction and Range Finding System

Code Repository

Using transducers, an Arduino, and an Analogue circuit, we created a 2D Range and Direction finding system.

Akha worked as a group leader in the course EEE4113F (Engineering Design) that I instructed during COVID-19. His contribution as group leader adds as a testimonial towards the student’s leadership qualities.

Amit Mishra Lecturer

Revolutionary ★★★★★

Bazisé Artist, Shared Reviewer

Wow! This app is good. Wish I have subscribed to some music services… And wow! I say, the interface is so clean

u/Dragon-Rider-03 Redditor, Shared Reviewer