Vince Carlo Santos

Senior iOS Engineer
crafting Swift & SwiftUI apps.

Senior iOS Engineer with 7+ years building consumer and enterprise apps. I specialize in Swift/SwiftUI, and love to tinker with Design Systems and Product Design. When I'm not shipping apps, I'm making music.

Mabalacat, Central Luzon, Philippines

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7+
Years engineering
6+
Apps on the App Store
3
Disciplines

01 · Experience

Experience.

A decade of building across mobile, desktop, and games — from intern to senior engineer.

carsales.com.au — Senior iOS Engineer

Oct 2023 — Present
Australia
  • 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
Camas, WA
  • Project: Backcountry Navigator XE
  • Duties: iOS App Maintenance

Montra — Senior macOS Developer

Jun 2023 — Aug 2023
Ontario, Canada
  • 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
United States
  • 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
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • 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
Pampanga, Central Luzon, Philippines
  • 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
Clark, Pampanga, Philippines
  • 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
Clark, Pampanga, Philippines
  • Project: Stack Blocks
  • Duties: Learn Unity Game Development, Apply Industry Standards and Work Etiquette. 2D and 3D Game Development with Unity

02 · Featured Work

Featured Work.

Apps from across my career, ordered by live App Store rating count.

carsales icon
Auto · Marketplace

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.

★ 4.7 295,214 ratings
App Store
BackCountry Navigator icon
Navigation · GPS

BackCountry Navigator XE

Offline GPS & topo mapping for the outdoors — download 50+ map sources, record tracks, and navigate by GPS with no signal.

★ 2.8 36 ratings
App Store
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Health & Fitness

Goliaz Personal Fitness Coach

Personalized workout plans to help users improve fitness, hit their goals, and enjoy training.

★ 4.6 17 ratings
App Store
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RFID · System

Wave 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
★ 5.0 2 ratings
App Store
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Keyboard Extension

Wave Wedge

A keyboard extension that brings RFID and barcode scanning into any text field — simplifying data entry anywhere.

★ 5.0 1 rating
App Store
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RFID · Enterprise

Wave 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
Not yet rated
App Store
AIMS icon
RFID · Inventory

A.I.M.S.

An RFID inventory control app to manage stock, monitor sales, flag missing items and locate frames with precision.

Not yet rated
App Store
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Smart Home · IoT

MEZZO

A next-gen integrated controller for Ness Corporation, combining wireless and IP tech into one home automation & security solution.

Not yet rated
App Store

03 · Open Source

Open Source.

Selected public repositories from @vncsnts — Swift tooling, on-device ML, and hardware SDKs.

SC
Swift · macOS

SwiftCast

A full-Swift screen caster & camera recording app for macOS — the open foundation behind my Swift Caster work.

View on GitHub
AI
Swift · AI

Swift-OpenAi

A clean app for trying out OpenAI models from Swift — a lightweight client to explore what's available.

View on GitHub
ML
Swift · CoreML

VinceML

An easy way to manage MLModels in Swift — streamlining how on-device models are loaded and used.

View on GitHub
ML
Swift · ML App

VinceMLApp

An app to create, train and run image-classifier ML models end-to-end on Apple platforms.

View on GitHub
SH
Swift · Hardware SDK

SimplyHandheld

One SDK for multiple UHF (RFID / barcode) handheld brands — CSL CS108 & Chainway behind a single Swift API.

View on GitHub
SR
Swift · VIPER

SoundRecorder

A sound recorder app built in Swift using the VIPER design pattern — a tidy reference implementation.

View on GitHub

04 · Game Development

Game Development.

Unity & C# work delivered for studios including Mega Cat Studios — shipped titles, prototypes, and a game-jam finalist along the way.

WQ
Unity · Shipped Title

WrestleQuest

An RPG by Mega Cat Studios. I worked on level design, cinematics, scripting, VFX and emission maps as part of the dev team.

Steam
SB
Unity · 2D / 3D

Stack 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 Drive
HAU
Thesis · Pixel RPG

Holy Angel Simulation: The Game

My university thesis (2018): a pixel-style RPG that turns the Holy Angel University campus into a playable world.

Google Drive
FD
Game · Survival

Flee from Darkness

A game project built to escape the dark — a personal title with a playable build available on Google Drive.

Google Drive
M×C
Game · Arcade

Mouse 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 Drive

05 · Skills & Toolkit

Skills & Toolkit.

The stack I reach for, grouped by where it lives.

Languages & Core

SwiftSwiftUI UIKitObjective-C RxSwiftC# Swift TestingOOP

Platform & Frameworks

AVFoundationCoreMedia CoreAudioCoreImage ARKitCoreBluetooth CoreLocationCoreMotion macOSFirebase RealmSQLite

Architecture & Practice

Design SystemsSystems Design MVVMSOLID REST APIsWebSocket OAuthRFID IoTA/B Testing RevenueCatGit

Also working with

Claude Code Claude Skills & Subagents GitHub Copilot Optimizely Google Maps / ArcGIS PubNub Unity

06 · Education & Certifications

Education.

Holy Angel University

Bachelor's Degree · 2014 — 2019

Thesis: Holy Angel Simulation — a pixel-style RPG built as a campus simulation game.

Certifications

LinkedIn Learning · Cisco
  • Advanced Unity: 3D Game Programming 2019
  • Unity 3D Essential Training 2019
  • Unity 5: 2D Essential Training 2019
  • IT Essentials — Cisco 2016

Let's build something
worth shipping.

Open for senior iOS engineering roles, consulting, and design system work. Based in the Philippines, available worldwide.

[email protected] +63 906 285 2136