Hi, I'm Tudor

I'm a Senior iOS Engineer and Tech Lead based in Luzern, Switzerland. I've spent my career building apps for Apple platforms - for companies, and independently on the App Store. These days I'm especially interested in on-device AI: private, fast, and offline-first.

tudor.turcanu [at] gmail.com · LinkedIn · GitHub

Where I've worked

  1. iOS Tech Lead · Scopeworker

    2021 – present

    Leading architecture and development of iOS apps and shared frameworks; lately prototyping LLM-based and on-device AI features.

  2. iOS Tech Lead · CGM Software

    2017 – 2021

    Technical direction for production healthcare apps; mentoring, architecture reviews, and modularization.

  3. iOS Developer · Pentalog

    2016 – 2017

    Secure banking apps for a major European bank - networking layer, persistence, and API integration.

  4. iOS Developer · Duk-Tech

    2013 – 2016

    Full-cycle consumer app development in Objective-C and Swift, from custom UI to Core Data.

My apps

Alongside my day job, I design, build, and ship my own apps - 30 of them live on the App Store, spanning productivity, health, education, games, and utilities.

What I work with

Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · Objective-C · C · C++ · Ruby · Swift Concurrency · Combine · Core Data · SwiftData · REST APIs · Modular Architecture · SDK Development · On-Device AI · LLM Integration · RAG & CAG Pipelines · Server-Side Swift (Vapor) · FastAPI · Python · Instruments · Fastlane · Xcode Cloud

Education

MSc Information Security - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Thesis: design and implementation of a cryptographically verifiable electronic voting system, combining mix networks, ElGamal encryption, and zero-knowledge proofs to guarantee ballot secrecy and end-to-end verifiability.

BSc Computer Science - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University