Yasmin Farah Malik

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Director of Engineering, GSK - SwiftUI · XCTest · Combine

GSK
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
11+ years experience
University College Dublin
English
Co-founder
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Overview

Currently at GSK, where I lead iOS apps with a team of 53. Took crash-free sessions from 98.8% to 99.7%. Before that: Arm and Ryanair. Most at home with XCTest and Combine. Marathoner (7 so far).

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about iOS apps
  • Second opinions on XCTest decisions
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Courses and coaching offers

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Skills
CombineXCTestSwiftUIUIKit
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The idea
Looking for an operations co-founder for price monitoring for solar installers
Stage
Prototype
I bring
15 years in iOS apps
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
London or remote

I bring 14 years of iOS apps (currently GSK). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Have a working prototype and design partners.

London, UKswiftuixctestuikit
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2025 - Present
    GSK · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Grew the iOS team from 4 to 35 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 28% in two quarters.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2021 - Aug 2025
    Arm · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 4%.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
    Ryanair · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 36% in two quarters.
    • Moved 88% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. iOS Engineer
    Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
    Lloyds Banking Group · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Moved 88% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Senior iOS Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Sep 2017
    PwC · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Led the migration of 21 services to Combine.

Projects

IOS apps benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing SwiftUI and XCTest on real workloads.

Side project: a commute planner
2024

Built with XCTest and UIKit. 4775 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. University College Dublin
    BSc, Mathematics
    2009 - 2012

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