New York, NY · Senior iOS Engineer

I ship iOS apps that 33 million people rely on.

I’m Andy Wong. For the last 7 years I’ve taken iOS products from idea to the App Store — currently leading workstreams on digital identity at CLEAR, where my work runs at airport-security scale with a 99.99% crash-free rate.

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AndyWong.swift

1import Foundation
2
3struct AndyWong: Engineer {
4    let role = "Senior iOS Engineer"
5    let location = "New York, NY"
6    let yearsShipping = 7
7
8    func ship() -> App {
9        // 33M users · 99.99% crash-free
10        return App(quality: .obsessive)
11    }
12}

33M

users served at CLEAR

99.99%

crash-free rate, up from 97%

−56%

CI build time · 1h 48m → 48m

7 yrs

shipping iOS, idea → App Store

experience

Version history

Every release of my career, App Store style — what shipped, and what changed because of it.

current release
Nov 2021 — present
New York, NY

CLEAR

Senior Software Engineer, iOS

Spearheaded the iOS workstream for a TSA-approved digital identity credential from discovery to launch — shipped to all 33M CLEAR members with full PII compliance.
Led the ePassport project across platforms, cutting in-app document scan failures 20% → 1% and reducing friction at CLEAR lanes by 50%+.
Drove SwiftUI adoption from zero — co-authored the architecture and coordinator system now standard across the codebase.
Rebuilt the CI/CD pipeline into a fully automated, self-serve system: build time 1h 48m → 48m, any engineer can ship independently.
Raised the crash-free rate 97% → 99.99% through systematic debugging, performance work, and automated monitoring.
Championed trunk-based development across iOS and Android; mentored junior engineers and led code review as a quality gate.

2021
Jan — Nov 2021
New York, NY

Helbiz

iOS Engineer

Owned Helbiz Kitchen end-to-end — the company’s first food-delivery product, embedded inside the live Ride app, opening a new revenue stream.
Lifted retention +30% and app open rates +40% with the integration.
Replaced Google Maps with the Foursquare Pilgrim SDK, shaving 4s off location load time.

2020 – 2021
Oct 2020 — Nov 2021
New York, NY

Membit

iOS Engineer

Built AR feature extensions in ARKit for an exclusive Hudson Yards holiday activation — new scene renderings, stabilized for a location-specific public deployment.
Refactored the ARKit architecture to smooth the engineering ↔ design pipeline for new 3D models.
Shipped real-time chat and onboarding improvements, increasing engagement +30%.

2019 – 2020
Mar 2019 — May 2020
Remote

Lover

Founding Engineer, Full-Stack iOS

Built two iOS apps from scratch as founding engineer — owning backend, CMS, and the iOS client.
Engineered personalization and gamification features driving +15% retention in early launches.
Worked directly with the co-founders on product strategy, retention, and go-to-market.

work

Selected work

Products I’ve shipped — for clients and for the fun of it.

client work

Membit augmented-reality iOS app

Membit

Location-based AR for one of NYC’s premier destinations. I led the iOS work to get Membit’s flagship app production-ready at scale for a Hudson Yards activation — revamping the UI, shipping new ARKit features, and stabilizing rendering for a public, location-specific deployment.

SwiftARKitUIKitSceneKitCoreLocation

Lover sexual-wellness iOS app

Lover

A sexual-wellness platform, built from concept to App Store. I shipped an initial MVP and then the flagship Lover app — 3D interactive graphics in SceneKit, a subscription model backed by a custom CMS and a Python API, serving all genders and orientations.

SwiftSceneKitPythonREST APIIn-App Purchases

personal projects

EventChat iOS app icon

Group chats that live and die with the event. No more creating a new thread for every gathering — EventChat pins the conversation to the event itself, and one tap drops the details straight into your calendar so you never forget.

SwiftUIKitEventKit

BartleBy writing app

A minimalist morning-writing companion. BartleBy nudges you at a time you choose to either free-write or jot down what you’re grateful for, then gently stops you when time’s up — a tiny ritual for starting the day.

Evermore personal-finance concept

Most money apps tell you how you spent — few help you save. Evermore is a concept built around the second half of that problem: turning everyday habits into savings, not just charts of where the money went.

skills

The toolchain

platform

SwiftSwiftUIUIKitCombineCoreDataARKitNFCBLE

architecture

TCAMVVMCoordinatorXCTestSwift TestingXCUITest

infrastructure

AWSGitHub ActionsCI/CDBrowserStackXcode Instruments

elsewhere

Around the internet

Side projects, algorithm practice, and open-source experiments.

The professional record — roles, recommendations, and updates.

Writing about iOS engineering and building products.

contact

Let’s build something.

Whether it’s a full-time role, a contract project, or a quick question about iOS — my inbox is open.

wongandy97@gmail.com LinkedIn ↗

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