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Franco Aldana

Open to work11 years experience

Senior iOS Engineer

ArgentinaTarget Roles: Backend Engineer • Full-Stack Developer • Frontend Specialist

Senior iOS Engineer specializing in complex, media-rich consumer surfaces.

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Skills & Technologies

16 skills
swiftuikitios architectureconcurrencygraphqlmedia playbackaccessibility performanceexperimentationanalyticssnapshot testingmodular architecturespringswiftuimvvmunit testingdesign patterns

Work Experience

Senior iOS Engineer

Reddit, Inc.

Jun 2022 - Present Los Angeles, CA (Remote from Argentina)
  • Built foundational image/gallery for Reddit full-screen iOS media experience.
  • Major contributor to Post Detail redesign: modular comment UI, media, accessibility.
  • Designed visibility-driven comment prefetching with concurrency and cache safety.
  • End-to-end media-rich content discovery: carousels, caching, routing, analytics.
  • Recommendation workflow for publisher tooling: GraphQL, pagination, telemetry.
  • iOS video-comment creation path: composer, media selection, moderation, tests.
  • Profile and AMA experiences: responsive UI, instrumentation, production stabilization.
  • Internal iOS tooling for live build-log inspection with filtering and search.

Software Engineer Sr

Mercado Libre

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Senior iOS on Account Security for Mercado Libre and Mercado Pago.
  • Owned authentication, device trust, and account-protection flows on iOS.
  • Partnered with product, backend, and security teams through rollout and metrics.

Software Engineer Ssr

Mercado Libre

Jan 2020 - Jan 2021 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Mobile Devices Security settings for Mercado Libre and Mercado Pago iOS apps.
  • Built screen lock and in-app security methods; delivered features end to end.

Software Engineer Analyst

Mercado Libre

Feb 2019 - Jan 2020 Argentina
  • High-concurrency security apps spanning password management and device admin.
  • Session security: authentication, recovery, and account-takeover prevention.
  • Swift on iOS and Java/Kotlin + Spring; Datadog, Kibana, New Relic, Tableau.

Software Engineer

Policia Federal Argentina - Policia Cientifica

Nov 2015 - Apr 2019 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • AFIS architectures and integration; SACI Java/Spring backend and native iOS app.
  • Mission-critical fingerprint identification workflows and system integration.

Server Administrator and DBA

Policia Federal Argentina

Jun 2014 - Nov 2015 Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Operated AFIS server infrastructure and databases for fingerprint identification.
  • Supported reliability and availability of a critical identification system.

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Achievements

CAI Pre-Engineering Award 2021 Nomination

Final project nominated to CAI Pre-Engineering Award 2021: AI-assisted sign-language communication system pairing wearable gloves with a mobile app for accessibility.

About Details

Professional Bio

Product-minded Senior iOS Engineer specializing in complex, media-rich consumer surfaces where UI architecture, state, navigation, media, concurrency, and reliability intersect. At Reddit since 2022, contributed across the full lifecycle of high-interaction features.

Engineer in Computer Science

UADE (2014 - 2020)

Languages: English, Hindi