Brazilian 🇧🇷 Senior iOS Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and scaling mobile products.
I’ve grown alongside the iOS platform — from Objective-C to Swift, UIKit to SwiftUI, and even the days of manual memory management (MRR) before ARC — with a strong focus on maintainable code and real product impact while adapting to Apple’s ever-evolving ecosystem.
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📱 iOS Engineering
- Deep experience with Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and modern iOS architectures
- Strong opinions on code quality, testing, and long-term maintainability
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🚀 Growth & User Activation
- Hands-on experience designing and iterating on onboarding, activation flows, and paywalls
- Data-driven mindset to help users quickly understand and buy into a product’s value
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💰 Monetization & Subscriptions
- Led the full migration of Mimo’s monetization stack:
- StoreKit 1 → StoreKit 2 → RevenueCat
- Acted as technical lead across iOS, Android, Web, and Backend, ensuring consistency and correctness across platforms
- Deep understanding of subscription models, edge cases, and App Store constraints
- Led the full migration of Mimo’s monetization stack:
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🌍 Community & Open Source
- Contributor to open-source projects
- Speaker at developer conferences — I enjoy giving back and sharing what I’ve learned
- ✉️ kvdesa@gmail.com


