Open to full-time remote roles· also available for contract work
Hi, I'm Faizan Akbar, an iOS & Flutter Engineer. Eight-plus years shipping native iOS, Flutter and Android apps — and the Spring Boot APIs behind them. From real-time audio & video and Bluetooth hardware to payments and marketplaces, I care about smooth UX, clean architecture and apps that hold up in production.
Pakistan · working remotely
Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, Flutter, Dart, Kotlin, WebRTC, Bluetooth LE, FFmpeg, Firebase, Stripe, BLoC, GetX, Objective-C, Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, Socket.IO, GitLab CI
01 / Selected work
Real screenshots from production apps and client work: marketplaces, Bluetooth hardware, conferencing, fintech and more.
01Speeqr
Secure audio & video conferencing with crystal-clear, echo-free voice.
02Thirty North Dev· 2020
A two-sided marketplace connecting homeowners with certified home technicians.
03Freelance · Thirty North Dev· 2025
Cycling, simplified — live speed and cadence from Wahoo sensors over Bluetooth.
04Key2Access
Accessible, hands-free door opening using BLE and iBeacon proximity.
05Thirty North Dev· 2019
A trading app for swapping stuff you have for stuff you want.
06Client project
Upload a few selfies, get a professional AI-generated photoshoot.
07Client project· 2025
Live scores, schedules and match details for cricket fans.
08Freelance · Korea
An EV-charging companion app for a Korean client.
09Thirty North Dev
A stock & forex community app with referrals and earnings tracking.
10Freelance
Generate and track telegraphic transfers without the paperwork.
11Georgia Tech · MS coursework
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Friendi Mobile
Consumer mobile app for the Friendi Mobile telecom brand.
2025 — present
Virgin Mobile
Consumer mobile app for the Virgin Mobile telecom brand.
2025 — present
IMEI-based tracking via cell towers
Located devices over SMS using cell-tower data when GPS and internet were unavailable.
2017 — 2018
HelloDemo
Android app development.
2019 · Android
Pharmacy Management System
Inventory and sales management system for pharmacies.
2015 — 2016
02 / Full-stack
I don't stop at the API contract. I also build the Java and Spring Boot back ends my Flutter and iOS apps talk to: REST APIs, real-time sockets and the database underneath.
Flutter / iOS
BLoC · Dio
Spring Boot
Java 17+
MySQL
Persistence
Create a poll, share it, and watch the results come in, backed by a Spring Boot API.
Real-time group chat: a Flutter client talking to a Spring Boot Socket.IO server.
A Flutter task manager on top of a clean Spring Boot CRUD API.
An e-commerce system built as Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes.
A hands-on project to go deep on distributed back ends. Product, order, inventory and notification services each own their own database. They talk synchronously over HTTP and asynchronously through Kafka, behind a Spring Cloud Gateway.
PHASE 0(done)
Project skeleton
PHASE 1(planned)
Product service
PHASE 2(planned)
DB per service
PHASE 3(planned)
Service-to-service
PHASE 4(planned)
Containers
PHASE 5(planned)
Kubernetes
PHASE 6(planned)
Kafka events
PHASE 7(planned)
Observability
03 / Expertise
Beyond everyday screens and APIs, I specialise in the areas most teams struggle to hire for.
Mesh WebRTC calls using both audio and data channels, plus native C/C++ audio libraries wired into iOS and Android.
Apps that talk to hardware: fitness sensors, beacons and smart doors.
I pick the right tool for each product, then structure it so it stays maintainable.
Revenue features that ship and pass App Store and Play review.
I build the APIs my apps talk to, and design them from the client’s point of view.
04 / Experience
Lahore, Pakistan
2019 — 2020
05 / Open source
Published Flutter plugin that blocks distracting apps on iOS (using Apple’s Family Controls and Screen Time API) and on Android (using an overlay foreground service).
A type-safe, generic networking package for Apple platforms, built on URLSession with Swift 6 strict concurrency and installable through Swift Package Manager.
An experiment in sending image data between devices using a stream of QR codes, with no network involved.
A reference app showing clean architecture in SwiftUI, with paginated lists and detail views.
06 / About
I'm a mobile engineer who enjoys the hard parts: keeping audio in sync across a call, talking to Bluetooth sensors in real time, and making a cross-platform app feel truly native on both iOS and Android.
I've worked in product teams at VentureDive and Thirty North Dev, on a secure conferencing platform at Speeqr, and directly with clients in the US, Korea and beyond. I recently completed my Master's at Georgia Tech and took part in a Guinness World Record–setting AI training hackathon.
I also work on the other side of the API. I build Java and Spring Boot back ends for my Flutter apps: REST services on Spring Data JPA and MySQL with consistent response envelopes and centralised error handling, and real-time messaging over Socket.IO. Right now I'm going deeper on distributed systems by building ShopLite, a set of Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes with Kafka.
Outside client work I publish open-source tooling — like a Flutter plugin for blocking apps with Apple's Screen Time API and Android overlays, and a Swift 6 networking package.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's degree · GPA 3.66
2021 — 2024
Recognition & learning