Rami Saleh

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Engineering Manager at Standard Chartered · IOS apps · Core Data, XCTest

Standard Chartered
Dubai, UAE · GST (UTC+4)
6+ years experience
Qatar University
English, Arabic
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Based in Dubai. I lead iOS apps at Standard Chartered. Led the migration of 23 services to XCTest. Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 32% in two quarters. Before that: Mobileye and Oracle. I read too many books about cities.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on iOS apps
  • Questions about iOS apps
  • Second opinions on UIKit decisions
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Requests to fix your code for free

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
UIKitCore DataXCTestexperimentation
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: iOS apps and experimentation

Topics
iOS apps, UIKit, Core Data
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Equity
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

6 years of iOS apps. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Dubai, UAE · remote OKxctestuikitcore data
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2026 - Present
    Standard Chartered · 6 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 407ms to 132ms.
    • Moved 89% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Grew the iOS team from 5 to 40 engineers.
  2. iOS Engineer
    Mar 2024 - Apr 2026
    Mobileye · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 464ms to 108ms.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Nov 2021 - Mar 2024
    Oracle · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 24 a week to 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 27% in two quarters.
  4. iOS Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
    Microsoft · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 615ms to 83ms.
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 9%.

Projects

IOS apps benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing XCTest and Core Data on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Qatar University
    BSc, Information Technology
    2015 - 2019

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