Amelia LimEmail me

Senior iOS EngineerTechnical LeadShips soloAvailable now

I build iOS apps people keep,and I stay long enough to keep them good.

Ten years of Swift, Objective-C and UIKit across loyalty, streaming, insurance and subscription products. One client kept me on the same app for seven years. As of July I'm free.

me@amelialim.comRead the CV
Bible Widget · Morning VerseLive
6:00Morning Verse

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love.

Psalm 143:8

Designed, built and shipped alone — app, widget, paywall and the App Store release.

Sole developerWidgetKitStoreKitApp Store
The record2014 — 2026

Twelve years, drawn to scale.

Roles above the line, apps I shipped below it. Every bar is its true length — which is the whole argument.

Now
RoleApp shippedEvery bar is drawn to its real length. Hover or tap one for the detail.
10
years shipping iOSNative since 2016, in software since 2014
3
apps on the App StoreLoyalty, streaming, subscription
4.5
★ NOICE App Store ratingFrom roughly 7,500 ratings
7
years on one client's appU+REWARDS, Jun 2017 – Nov 2024
Shipped2017 — now

Three apps on the App Store.

What each one actually took.

  1. Jun 2026 — now

    Bible Widget: Morning Verse

    Independent app · Subscription

    Live · Sole iOS developer

    • Designed, built and shipped the whole app and its WidgetKit experience alone
    • Implemented a RevenueCat paywall backed by StoreKit subscriptions and managed the App Store release
    • Swift
    • UIKit
    • WidgetKit
    1developer on the app, the widget and the release

  2. Jan 2021 — 2024

    NOICE: Podcast, Film & Radio

    Streaming

    Shipped · iOS team of 2

    • Delivered podcast playback, streaming, comments and chat-style audience interaction inside a two-person iOS team
    • Contributed to a nationally visible product rated 4.5/5 from approximately 7,500 App Store ratings
    • Swift
    • UIKit
    • Streaming
    4.5★App Store rating

  3. Jun 2017 — Nov 2024

    U+REWARDS

    Multi-brand loyalty · Membership tiers

    Shipped · iOS team of 2

    • Built and maintained the app across a seven-year client engagement, shipping five major feature initiatives
    • Implemented membership-tier behaviour across brands with different calculation rules, supporting points, rewards and repeat feature delivery
    • Swift
    • UIKit
    7 yrsone client engagement, five major initiatives
How the work goesFour habits

What you get when you hire me.

Not a method diagram. Four things I actually do, each one traceable to a line on the CV.

Where I've been2014 — 2026
  1. Nov 2024 — Jul 2026Remote, Indonesia

    Technical Lead — Akar Inti Teknologi

    • Delivered mobile, CMS and backend products across loyalty, insurance, tracking and payment domains while staying hands-on with feature development and code review.
    • Guided up to four developers through tight timelines by clarifying requirements, acceptance criteria, API contracts and delivery dependencies.
    • Coordinated remediation of penetration-test findings, including high-severity issues, and supported launch incident response across mobile and backend teams.
  2. Nov 2020 — Oct 2024Remote, Indonesia

    Lead Mobile Developer — Akar Inti Teknologi

    • Built and released native iOS applications in Swift using UIKit, MVVM, REST APIs, persistence, analytics and App Store tooling.
    • Maintained long-lived client products and established development guidelines that helped a junior developer ship features quickly and correctly.
    • Managed Android projects from requirements through delegation to developers.
  3. Feb 2016 — Nov 2020Remote, Indonesia

    Lead iOS Developer — INSPIRA

    • Built and released native iOS applications in Swift and Objective-C using UIKit, MVVM, REST APIs, persistence, analytics and App Store tooling.
    • Maintained long-lived client products and established development guidelines that helped a junior developer ship features quickly and correctly.
  4. Jun 2014 — Dec 2015

    Software Engineer — AbraResto.com

    • Developed food-discovery desktop and mobile web experiences using Ruby on Rails.
  5. 2007 — 2011Education

    Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering — Duta Wacana Christian University

    GPA 3.65/4.00 · Graduated with honours · Ranked 3rd among IT students and 6th in the engineering faculty

ToolkitWhat I reach for
iOS
  • Swift
  • Objective-C
  • UIKit
  • SwiftUI
  • WidgetKit
  • async/await
  • Combine
  • RxSwift
Architecture
  • Clean Architecture
  • MVVM
  • SOLID
  • REST
  • WebSocket
  • OAuth
Security & data
  • SSL pinning
  • Security remediation
  • Core Data
  • Realm
  • SQLite
  • Keychain
Delivery
  • SPM
  • CocoaPods
  • Fastlane
  • Bitrise
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • XCTest
  • UI testing
Product
  • Firebase
  • Crashlytics
  • Amplitude
  • Mixpanel
  • RevenueCat
  • StoreKit
  • App Store release
Additional
  • Flutter
  • Dart

Available now

Need an iOS engineer who'll still be there in year three?

Available for remote work — senior iOS roles, from Indonesia (GMT+7).

me@amelialim.com
Based in
Indonesia · GMT+7
Works
Remote, and has since 2016
Open to
Remote senior iOS roles
Latest
Bible Widget, June 2026

linkedin.com/in/amelia-lim-00603598Curriculum vitae, PDF