Senior iOS Engineer · AI/NLP · Product & Platform Systems

Engineering iOS products, AI tools, and language technology systems.

I’m Ali Kuzhuget, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building production iOS, cross-platform, fintech, real-time, and AI-enabled products. I lead features from architecture and API contracts to implementation, release, and production stability.

Mobile apps portfolio

Selected shipped apps and product systems across audio, music, fintech, CRM, maps, booking, coffee ordering, and language keyboards.

LIM Coffee app screenshots

LIM Coffee

2022

Order-ahead coffee with promos, map discovery, and QR pickup.

Cross-platform Flutter product with secure checkout, 3DS flows, QR validation, real-time capacity, deep links, and Firebase-backed analytics.

FlutterDartFirebasePayments
Yurta App screenshots

Yurta App

2022

Travel, booking, QR tickets, and secure payment flows.

Mobile service platform with yurt and hotel bookings, encrypted QR check-in, offline tickets, multi-currency support, and banking integrations.

FlutterTinkoffQRArchitecture
RF Keyboards screenshots

RF Keyboards

2023–2026

System-style Cyrillic keyboards for 50+ languages.

Keyboard layouts, language datasets, long-press prioritization, CLDR-oriented specifications, and iOS/macOS/Android input research.

SwiftSwiftUICLDRKeyboards
CT Mobile screenshots

CT Mobile for Salesforce

2021–2023

Enterprise CRM mobility for global clients.

Enterprise iOS platform work with workflow modules, offline-first CRM features, reusable components, backend API contracts, and production delivery.

SwiftObjective-CCRMEnterprise
DJ Mix Pads screenshots

DJ Mix Pads 2

2014+

Music and beat-making app with 1M+ installs.

Consumer audio product with beat pads, sound effects, loops, recording, sound packs, and migration from Unity3D to native iOS engineering.

iOSAudioUnity3DCore Audio
Pro Microphone screenshots

Pro Microphone

2014+

Voice recording studio with microphone effects.

Audio recording app with equalizer, effects, voice tuning, recording workflows, and AVFoundation-based sound processing.

SwiftAVFoundationAudio FXRecording
Volume Booster screenshots

Volume Booster

2020+

Audio equalizer, amplifier, bass, and sound boost utility.

Popular iOS audio utility focused on equalizer controls, amplifier UX, bass enhancement, and simple playback integrations.

SwiftAVFoundationEqualizerAudioEngine
DJ Groove Pad screenshots

DJ Groove Pad

Audio

Beat-pad experience with AI-oriented music creation positioning.

Music-making interface concepts and App Store assets focused on beat pads, remix workflows, and performance-oriented audio UX.

Audio UXPadsMusicMobile

Selected projects

Production products across iOS, AI/NLP, fintech, enterprise platforms, language technology, audio, and real-time systems.

Tuvan in AI Translation Systems

Added Tuvan language support to AI translation systems and platforms, including Google Translate and Yandex Translate, and independently built the AI Russian–Tuvan translator and language platform on Tyvan.ru serving 175,000+ annual users.

NLPPythoniOSDatasets

Language Keyboards for Apple Ecosystem

Keyboard layouts, input systems, and language resources for 10+ languages with insufficient digital support, including iOS/macOS ergonomics and platform-ready datasets.

iOSmacOSCLDRKeyboards

CT Mobile for Salesforce

Enterprise iOS platform work for 10+ global clients, including workflow features, computer-vision integrations, reusable components, and architecture modernization.

SwiftUIKitCore MLEnterprise

Yurta App

Mobile travel and service platform with banking, ticketing, QR, payment, and backend integrations, evolved from serverless Firebase to microservices architecture.

FlutterPaymentsBanking APIsArchitecture

DJ Mix Pads 2

Music creation product with 1M+ installs across iOS and Android; included Unity3D-to-native Swift migration and Core Audio-related mobile engineering.

iOSAudioUnity3D1M+ installs

Real-Time Transport Apps

Geospatial iOS clients with live GPS tracking, map overlays, WebSocket updates, and WebRTC streaming from city camera networks.

MapboxWebSocketWebRTCReal-time

Core strengths

I combine senior iOS engineering, platform architecture, AI/NLP systems, and product ownership.

iOS platform engineering

Swift, Objective-C, UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine, async/await, Core Data, Core ML, APNs, modular architecture, testing, and App Store delivery.

AI and language technology

Machine translation, language datasets, NLP pipelines, corpus validation, model integration, keyboard data, and language infrastructure, including Tuvan support across Google, Yandex, and Tyvan.ru.

Fintech and secure flows

Payment SDKs, banking APIs, transaction flows, Keychain, biometric authentication, secure integrations, and marketplace modules.

Credentials & continuous learning

Hands-on progress across Google Cloud, Gemini, BigQuery, machine learning, AI-assisted development, and data systems.

Google Skills profile

Public Google Skills profile with Diamond League progress and multiple completion badges across Cloud, AI, ML, NLP, Gemini for developers, Gemini for end-to-end SDLC, BigQuery, and data science workflows.

Google Cloud Gemini BigQuery Machine Learning AI for Developers NLP
Diamond League 17,746 points Gemini BigQuery ML Cloud AI

Experience

Senior engineering roles across independent product work, enterprise iOS platforms, fintech, real-time transport systems, and public digital infrastructure.

2023–Present

Tyvan.ru / Independent & Open Source — Senior Software Engineer

Built the AI Russian–Tuvan translator on Tyvan.ru, contributed to adding Tuvan language support to Google and Yandex translation systems, shipped 4 production mobile apps and 2 macOS apps, designed custom keyboard/input systems for 10+ languages, and contributed to ACL/WMT language technology publications.

2021–2023

Customertimes — Senior iOS Engineer

Led enterprise iOS architecture and delivery for CT Mobile, built reusable platform components, implemented CI/CD improvements, and delivered features for global clients including Bayer, L’Oréal, and Abbott.

2020–2021

Lifestyle Platform — Mobile Engineer

Developed marketplace and service modules for a fintech super-app, including product catalog, payment integrations, secure transaction flows, and modular client architecture.

2019–2020

Megapolis IT — Mobile Engineer

Built real-time transport and geospatial iOS clients with live GPS tracking, map overlays, WebRTC streaming, WebSocket updates, and production release pipelines.

2018–2019

Smart Block Laboratory — iOS Engineer

Developed fintech banking features, encrypted file sharing, multi-signature transaction flows, secure key management, and VIPER-based architecture.

2016–2018

Government of the Republic of Tyva — Head of IT

Led regional digital transformation initiatives, delivered 10+ government platforms, organized 20+ technology initiatives and events, and defined technical standards.

2014–2016

Academ Media — Lead iOS & Unity Engineer

Led cross-platform iOS/macOS/Unity development, shipped DJ Mix Pads II with 1M+ installs, and designed a framework enabling 200+ Unity apps to ship watchOS versions.

Publications & community

Research, open source, and language technology work connected to real products and public infrastructure.

WMT 2025 / ACL

Co-author of SMOL: Professionally Translated Parallel Data for 115 Under-represented Languages.

WMT 2024 / ACL

Co-author of Enhancing Tuvan Language Resources through the FLORES Dataset.

Open source & standards

Contributor to language technology, Wikipedia infrastructure, AOSP keyboard work, Unicode CLDR, and major translation platform resources, including Tuvan support in Google, Yandex, and Tyvan.ru.

Let’s build something meaningful.

I’m open to senior iOS, AI/NLP, mobile architecture, platform systems, and product engineering opportunities where strong technical execution meets real-world impact.

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