Luma Commons

    Senior iOS Engineering

    Production-Grade iOS
    for Regulated Industries

    9 years senior iOS, including ~4 years in BaFin-regulated fintech. One named engineer. Full accountability, no hand-holding.

    Shipped for teams in

    🏦BaFin-regulated robo-advisoryGerman wealth-management platform
    🛍️Multi-brand fashion e-commerceiOS relaunch, 4★ App Store
    🏨Hospitality & travel techAI booking assistant integration
    BaFin-regulatedGDPR-compliantSAMA-awarePDPL-aware

    The gap that costs you

    Senior vs. junior engineering isn't just a salary difference

    Tech debt is quietly killing your roadmap

    Every feature shipped by under-resourced teams arrives with hidden cost. Shortcuts compound until your sprint velocity halves. The fix then costs 3× the original build.

    Junior teams need mentoring you can't afford to give

    Your lead engineers spend 40% of their week unblocking developers. That time isn't free. It's your architecture, your documentation, your next release.

    Regulated markets need engineers who know the rules

    Fintech, health, and wealth-management apps carry compliance obligations that most iOS contractors have never shipped against. One audit finding can stall a release for months.

    What I deliver

    Nine services. One accountable engineer.

    Discuss your project

    Named engineer, not a team

    You hire Nikhil.
    Not a rotation of interchangeable developers.

    Agencies assign whoever is available. Staffing firms rotate people off the moment utilisation slips. With a named senior engineer you get full context continuity. The same person who scoped sprint 1 is still accountable in sprint 20.

    • One named engineer. You know exactly who is writing your code.
    • 9 years iOS production experience, shipped in regulated and consumer markets
    • ~4 years in BaFin-regulated fintech. Compliance is muscle memory, not a checklist.
    • Architecture decisions owned end-to-end, not delegated to a junior
    • Direct communication. No account manager, no ticket queue, no timezone lottery.
    • Code that your next hire can read, extend, and maintain

    Nikhil Nangia

    Senior iOS Engineer

    9 yrs

    iOS production

    ~4 yrs

    BaFin fintech

    3

    industry verticals

    1

    engineer you deal with

    Stack

    SwiftSwiftUIUIKitKotlinFlutterCore MLTCA

    Sectors served

    Deep expertise where the engineering bar is highest

    Schwerpunkt

    Fintech & reguliertes Finanzwesen

    BaFin-reguliertes Wealth-Management, Open Banking, PSD2-Integrationen, biometrische Authentifizierung, GDPR/PDPL-Compliance eingebaut, nicht nachträglich. Umfangreiche Erfahrung in Deutschland und Saudi-Arabien.

    • BaFin-Regulierung
    • Open Banking / PSD2
    • GDPR + PDPL
    • KYC / AML Prozesse
    Learn more

    Retail & E-Commerce

    Hochkonvertierende iOS-Apps für Multi-Brand-Fashion, Marktplattformen und D2C-Retail. Von Performance bis App Store-Optimierung.

    • App Store-Wachstum
    • Payment-Integrationen
    • Push-Personalisierung
    • Barrierefreiheit
    Learn more

    Hospitality & Travel Tech

    Gästeorientierte iOS-Apps mit KI-Buchungsassistenten, Offline-First-Funktionen und mehrsprachiger Unterstützung für internationale Hotels und Reisemarken.

    • KI-Buchungsflows
    • Offline-First-Sync
    • Mehrsprachig
    • PMS-Integrationen
    Learn more

    Shipped work

    Outcomes, not effort

    All case studies

    How we work together

    Three ways to engage

    Fixed scope & timeline

    Project

    You have a defined feature, rewrite, or milestone. We agree scope, price, and delivery date upfront. No ongoing commitment required.

    Ideal for: MVP, feature sprint, App Store submission

    Get a project quote

    Monthly retainer

    Embedded

    I join your squad as a senior iOS engineer. You get dedicated throughput, architecture oversight, and a direct Slack line. Billed monthly, pause anytime.

    Ideal for: Ongoing product development, growing teams

    Start a retainer

    Hourly / async

    Advisory

    Architecture reviews, code audits, technical due diligence, or just a second opinion. Structured async or booked calls. No long-term commitment.

    Ideal for: Pre-acquisition review, architecture decisions

    Book an advisory call
    AI-assisted engineering

    AI isn't replacing senior engineers.
    It's multiplying them.

    The engineers who benefit most from AI tooling are the ones who already know what good code looks like. A junior engineer with Copilot ships bugs faster. A senior engineer with Copilot ships features faster.

    Every engagement includes AI-accelerated delivery, meaning you get the throughput of a small team at the accountability of one senior engineer.

    C

    Claude

    Architecture reasoning & code review

    G

    GitHub Copilot

    In-editor autocomplete & refactoring

    C

    Cursor

    Context-aware multi-file edits

    C

    Core ML

    On-device inference, Vision & NLP

    O

    OpenAI API

    Server-side LLM feature pipelines

    Let's talk

    Ready to ship production-grade iOS?

    Typical response within one business day. No sales call required before we get into details.