Neda Khalaj
iOS Developer
Summary
I build native iOS apps with Swift and SwiftUI, on my own and in a team, and I'm studying Mobile Application Development at Folkuniversitetet. Before software I worked in accounting and ran my own small business. I moved to Sweden in 2022, learned Swedish, and retrained as a developer.
Experience
Finance Trainee
Mobility One · Malaysia
- One-year finance placement doing account reconciliation and recording financial transactions.
- Worked to a high standard of accuracy in SAP and Excel, where a single wrong figure is caught in the next review.
Co-Founder and Business Owner
Dastan Studio · Iran
- Co-founded and ran a small business with a partner and two employees.
- Handled operations, customer service, sales and finances, so I know what it costs to keep a product running day to day.
Skills
Languages
iOS and frameworks
Backend and data
Architecture
Tools and practices
AI-assisted development
Selected work
Token Meter
A solo iOS app that tracks how much AI usage quota is left across providers, shown on a dashboard, a settings screen and a home screen widget. It talks to the OpenRouter and Claude REST APIs with async/await and Codable, and maps each provider's response into one shared model so the dashboard and the widget don't care which provider they're reading. API keys live in the iOS Keychain, and accounts are saved as JSON in a shared App Group container so the app and its WidgetKit timeline provider read the same data. Built in MVVM with a shared observable store, one service per provider behind a common protocol, and per-account loading and error states with an invalid-key reconnect flow.
LocalGuide
A native iOS 17+ app for discovering, creating and sharing audio-guided tours of places across Sweden, built by a team of four in Agile sprints. I worked across map browsing with MapKit, distance-sorted listings and GPS with Core Location, search and filtering, guide creation with photos and audio narration through AVFoundation, and star ratings, reviews and favourites. Firebase handled email and password authentication, Firestore storage and Cloud Storage. We used Git and GitHub with pull-request code reviews and an MVVM layout of Models, ViewModels, Views and Services.
Education
Mobile Application Developer, vocational program
Folkuniversitetet
Gothenburg
Programming 1 and 2 (Python)
Jensen Education
Stockholm
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Basir University
Iran
Associate Degree in Accounting
Azad University
Iran
Languages
Get in touch
I'm looking for a junior iOS role and for a LIA placement between December 2026 and June 2027. LIA is unpaid and Folkuniversitetet writes the agreement, so it costs a team nothing but a desk and a code review. Write to me either way.