Independent iOS engineering partner

Senior iOS engineering.
Without the full-time hire.

Fractional development for European product teams that need experienced hands on their app—from architecture and modernization to steady feature delivery.

SwiftSwiftUIUIKitEU remote
A walnut developer desk with a laptop displaying Swift code, a lavender iPhone 17-inspired handset running Orbit, and a small espresso cup.
DESIGNED. BUILT. REFINED.

INTERACTIVE CONCEPT

Orbit / a focused workspace

Orbit app preview. Use the adjacent controls to navigate and update tasks.

FROM INTERFACE TO INTERACTION

Good software
feels considered.

Explore a working concept: open a task, complete it, and see the project progress update.

Demo data · Changes stay in this session

When the roadmap is moving
faster than your iOS capacity

Senior iOS help is most valuable when it removes uncertainty: the release that keeps slipping, the architecture decision nobody owns, or the modernization work that never reaches the roadmap.

Espresso Coders joins at that exact point—small enough to move quickly, experienced enough to see the whole product.

Ways to work together

Focused help.
Real momentum.

Choose a lightweight ongoing engagement or a clearly scoped intervention. Every format is designed to create useful progress quickly.

01

Fractional senior iOS

Experienced iOS capacity for product teams that need momentum, sound decisions and hands-on delivery—without another full-time hire.

8–12 hours / weekEmbedded collaboration
02

Codebase & architecture audit

A focused review of architecture, technical debt, stability and performance, ending in a clear, prioritised action plan.

Independent assessmentActionable roadmap
03

SwiftUI & UIKit modernization

Pragmatic modernization of established apps, from targeted SwiftUI adoption to safer architecture and delivery workflows.

Incremental migrationLower delivery risk
UISwiftUI
DomainPure Swift
DataAsync / await
Boundaries that keep change affordable.

The working style

Calm, clear engineering
for complex products.

No black boxes and no dramatic rewrites. You get visible trade-offs, focused execution and code your team can confidently own.

01

Product thinking

Engineering decisions start with the customer and the business outcome—not the newest framework.

02

Senior ownership

Clear trade-offs, proactive communication and useful progress without heavy management overhead.

03

Low-risk delivery

Small, testable increments that improve the app while the product keeps moving.

Built by an iOS specialist

Seven years close to
the product and the code.

LC

FOUNDER & SENIOR IOS ENGINEER

Lucian Cerbu

Romania · Working with EU teams

I help product teams make confident decisions about established iOS apps, then stay close enough to the implementation to turn those decisions into shipped work.

The focus is practical: understand the constraint, reduce risk, improve the codebase and leave the team in a stronger position.

7+years building
iOS products
1:1direct senior
collaboration
EUremote-friendly
engagements

Have an iOS challenge?

Let’s make the next
release feel lighter.

Share a little about your app, your team and where delivery feels stuck. You’ll get a direct, thoughtful reply—not a sales sequence.

[email protected] Usually replies within 1–2 working days.