Senior Software
Engineer crafting
Swift & SwiftUI apps.
I'm Vince Carlo Santos — 7+ years shipping everything from consumer apps to enterprise systems. I specialize in Swift / SwiftUI, and I love diving into Design Systems and Product Design when I can. Off the clock, I'm making music.
Vince Carlo Santos
Experience
A decade of building across mobile, desktop, and games — from intern to senior engineer.
carsales.com.au — Senior iOS Engineer
Oct 2023 — Present- Engineering of Carsales / X-Sales Retail Apps
- Engineering and Architecture of Torq Design System used by Carsales / X-Sales Retail Apps
- Contributions to UI / UX, Patterns, Architectures of Systems powering Carsales / X-Sales Retail Apps
- Migrating Old Swift Patterns into Swift6+ Ideologies
Back Country Navigator — Senior iOS Developer
Aug 2020 — Oct 2025- Project: Backcountry Navigator XE
- Duties: iOS App Maintenance
Montra — Senior macOS Developer
Jun 2023 — Aug 2023- macOS Development focused on video editing frameworks
- Screen Recording and Camera Streaming Application based on macOS
- Realtime feed chunked data available for cloud implementation or local storage
SimplyRFID — Senior iOS Developer
Jan 2021 — May 2023- Project: Aims, Wave, Wave Wedge, Wave 4, Wave Audit
- Duties: Direct Coordination with CTO, CEO, Marketing for Product Requirements and Deliverables. Features and Maintenance.
- Notable: Created Swift friendly wrappers for Objective-C SDK's of different UHF / Barcode Handhelds, Converted Legacy app to full Swift / SwiftUI Design, Led 1-2 iOS Developers
Mega Cat Studios — Unity Developer
Oct 2020 — Dec 2020- Project: Wrestle Quest
- Duties: Direct Coordination with Project Manager and Co-Developers for Deliverables, Level Design, Cinematics, Scripting, VFX and Emission Maps.
MVP Asia Pacific — iOS Developer
Mar 2019 — Nov 2020- Project: Casina (ERP iOS App), Mezzo, Lendlease, Smartlink, SportsHero
- Duties: Coordinated with Project Managers, Clients and Co-Developers for Product Deliverables, Features and Maintenance
Goliaz HIIT — iOS Developer
Nov 2019 — Apr 2020- Project: Goliaz Personal Fitness Coach
- Duties: Coordination with Co-Developers, Maintenance and Feature updates.
MVP Asia Pacific — iOS Developer Intern
Jan 2019 — Mar 2019- Project: Casina (ERP iOS App)
- Duties: Coordinated with Project Manager and Co-Developers for Product Deliverable as a Junior iOS Developer.
MVP Asia Pacific — Unity Developer Intern
Nov 2018 — Jan 2019- Project: Stack Blocks
- Duties: Learn Unity Game Development, Apply Industry Standards and Work Etiquette. 2D and 3D Game Development with Unity
Featured Work
Apps from across my career, ordered by live App Store rating count.
carsales
Australia's #1 car marketplace — search 220,000+ cars, sell with Snap 'n' Sell, and track live ad stats. I engineer the app and the Torq Design System behind it.
App StoreBackCountry Navigator XE
Offline GPS & topo mapping for the outdoors — download 50+ map sources, record tracks, and navigate by GPS with no signal.
App StoreGoliaz Personal Fitness Coach
Personalized workout plans to help users improve fitness, hit their goals, and enjoy training.
App StoreWave Enterprise Inventory
Replaces barcodes with RFID, cutting inventory from days to minutes — App + iPhone + AWS backend + CSL CS108 handheld.
- Scan up to 700 items per minute
- 3–4¢ tags for daily counts
- Multi-handheld sync to web inventory
Wave Wedge
A keyboard extension that brings RFID and barcode scanning into any text field — simplifying data entry anywhere.
App StoreWave Audit
A precision RFID tag audit & certification app for meticulous inventory and QA workflows.
- Decode SGTIN values & count unique tags
- Build, certify & share tag lists
- Custom names & image association
A.I.M.S.
An RFID inventory control app to manage stock, monitor sales, flag missing items and locate frames with precision.
App StoreMEZZO
A next-gen integrated controller for Ness Corporation, combining wireless and IP tech into one home automation & security solution.
App StoreOpen Source
Selected public repositories from @vncsnts — Swift tooling, on-device ML, and hardware SDKs.
SwiftCast
A full-Swift screen caster & camera recording app for macOS — the open foundation behind my Swift Caster work.
View on GitHubSwift-OpenAi
A clean app for trying out OpenAI models from Swift — a lightweight client to explore what's available.
View on GitHubVinceML
An easy way to manage MLModels in Swift — streamlining how on-device models are loaded and used.
View on GitHubVinceMLApp
An app to create, train and run image-classifier ML models end-to-end on Apple platforms.
View on GitHubSimplyHandheld
One SDK for multiple UHF (RFID / barcode) handheld brands — CSL CS108 & Chainway behind a single Swift API.
View on GitHubSoundRecorder
A sound recorder app built in Swift using the VIPER design pattern — a tidy reference implementation.
View on GitHubGame Development
Unity & C# work delivered for studios including Mega Cat Studios — shipped titles, prototypes, and a game-jam finalist along the way.
WrestleQuest
An RPG by Mega Cat Studios. I worked on level design, cinematics, scripting, VFX and emission maps as part of the dev team.
SteamStack Blocks
A 2D & 3D Unity game built during my first game-dev role at MVP Asia Pacific — learning the engine, industry standards, and shipping discipline.
Google DriveHoly Angel Simulation: The Game
My university thesis (2018): a pixel-style RPG that turns the Holy Angel University campus into a playable world.
Google DriveFlee from Darkness
A game project built to escape the dark — a personal title with a playable build available on Google Drive.
Google DriveMouse VS Cats
A chase-and-evade game pitting one clever mouse against the cats — a personal title with a playable build on Google Drive.
Google DriveSkills & Toolkit
The stack I reach for, grouped by where it lives.
Languages & Core
Platform & Frameworks
Architecture & Practice
Also working with
Education & Certifications
Holy Angel University
Thesis: Holy Angel Simulation — a pixel-style RPG built as a campus simulation game.
Certifications
- Advanced Unity: 3D Game Programming 2019
- Unity 3D Essential Training 2019
- Unity 5: 2D Essential Training 2019
- IT Essentials — Cisco 2016