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Founder, Sole Developer and Designer
Hello,
I’m Akha.
Cape Town, South Africa
I focus on crafting beautiful, well‑engineered apps.
I’m an iOS engineer with a background in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a passion for solving technical problems and crafting beautiful, well-engineered apps that deliver seamless user experiences.
Skills
Swift • SwiftUI • UIKit • Swift Concurrency • Swift Testing • AVFoundation • App Intents • WidgetKit • ActivityKit • ShazamKit • Kotlin Multiplatform • TypeScript • React Native • Cloudflare • Branch.io • RevenueCat • Firebase • Auth0 • REST API • MVVM • Clean Architecture • Kotlin • Jetpack Compose • Mac Catalyst • CoreSpotlight • CloudKit • Realm • SOLID • Swift Packages • CocoaPods • Figma • Sketch • Pixelmator
Career
Amaris Consulting
Intermediate iOS Engineer (Experienced Consultant)
Glucode
Intermediate iOS Engineer
Glucode
Junior iOS Engineer
Isazi Consulting
Solutions Hacker
In2it technologies
Software Development Intern
Education
University of Cape Town
BSc(Eng) Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Cape Town is a public research 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.
TranscriptBishops
National Senior Certificate
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
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.
Projects
LiveActivityKit
Personal
A Swift package that provides functions to easily start, update, and end a live activity.
toDynamicFont.py
Personal
A Python script that returns the environment-dependent Font for a given font pt size.
toFontWeight.py
Personal
A Python script that returns the Font.Weight for a given numeric value.
Out the Rudes
Personal
A Python script that, when given an export of an Instagram user’s followers and following, lists the accounts that don’t follow the user back.
House Rules
Personal
Inspired by a podcast episode, I created a small iOS app that takes a list of players as input and randomly assigns a target finishing position to each player.
Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting using Ensemble ANNs
University of Cape Town
I trained three Artificial Neural Network ensembles and tested their performance in short-term wind power forecasting on MATLAB.
Convolutional Neural Network Music Genre Identification
University of Cape Town
We trained a CNN and used it to classify songs by genre using an image representation of the first 30s of each song.
2D Direction and Range Finding System
University of Cape Town
Using transducers, an Arduino, and an analogue circuit, we created a 2D Range and Direction finding system.
Testimonials
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.
Revolutionary ★★★★★
Wow! This app is good. Wish I have subscribed to some music services… And wow! I say, the interface is so clean