Ian Palmer

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Engineering Manager at Lakemont Logistics · IOS apps

Lakemont Logistics
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
6+ years experience
Saïd Business School
English
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Overview

Currently at Lakemont Logistics, where I lead iOS apps with a team of 22. Wrote the UIKit service that now handles 20 million requests a day. Before that: Kainos and Unilever. Most at home with Swift and XCTest. I play football every Sunday.

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Skills
SwiftSwiftUICore DataXCTestUIKit
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Building out iOS at Lakemont Logistics: backend engineers wanted in London

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$120k-$151k
Team
IOS, 18 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with SwiftUI Production experience with XCTest Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp £92k-£136k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Lakemont Logistics · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 31% in two quarters.
    • Led the migration of 14 services to XCTest.
  2. iOS Engineer
    Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
    Kainos · 3 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped 10 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 5.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
    Unilever · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 38 a week to 2.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2024

Built with XCTest and Core Data. 131 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Saïd Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. London School of Economics
    BSc, Mathematics
    2016 - 2019

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