Naledi Khumalo

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VP of Engineering, Ivory Data - XCTest · SwiftUI · Core Data

Ivory Data
Johannesburg, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)
11+ years experience
University of Lagos
English, Afrikaans
Co-founder
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Overview

Currently at Ivory Data, where I lead iOS apps with a team of 24. Took crash-free sessions from 97.4% to 99.8%. Before that: Access Bank and Deloitte. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on SwiftUI decisions
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Skills
Core DataSwiftUICombineXCTestUIKit
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for farm-input financing for manufacturers in Southeast Asia

The idea
Farm-input financing for manufacturers in Southeast Asia
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
14 years in iOS apps
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Johannesburg or remote

I bring 19 years of iOS apps (currently Ivory Data). Ideally you've run operations in India. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Johannesburg, South Africaxctestuikitcombine
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    May 2024 - Present
    Ivory Data · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Took crash-free sessions from 98.3% to 99.6%.
    • Moved 90% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the SwiftUI service that now handles 32 million requests a day.
  2. Staff iOS Engineer
    Feb 2021 - May 2024
    Access Bank · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Wrote the Core Data service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
    Deloitte · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Wrote the SwiftUI service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
    EY · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Moved 93% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Staff iOS Engineer
    Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
    Ecobank · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Moved 68% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Side project: a recipe search engine
2025

Built with UIKit and XCTest. 820 people used it last year.

Write-up: iOS apps in practice
2022

A long-form guide to iOS apps for people starting out.

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Education

  1. University of Lagos
    BSc, Electronics and Communication
    2003 - 2007

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