🏠 MANU CARRASCO MOLINA

Apple Technologist · iOS since 2008 · Swift since '14 · SwiftUI since '19

Düren, Germany  ·  +49 160 36 55 761  ·  m@carrascomolina.com
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🏢  COMPANIES & CLIENTS

Volkswagen / Cariad Apple Deutsche Telekom DHL Vorwerk e.GO Digital certgate DeepUp.ai Klingel Group Carhartt LinkedIn Learning GFU Alcatel Pirelli Seven Principles
Manu Carrasco Molina
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Apple platform developer for 17+ years — deep, continuous Swift and SwiftUI expertise. Shipped production apps for automotive (Volkswagen/Cariad), industrial hardware, and sports-tech clients. Alongside development, a long-running second track as an Apple-platform teacher, published author, and conference speaker.

🛠️ Core Skills

Swift (since 2014) · SwiftUI (since 2019) · Combine · UIKit · visionOS · iOS / iPadOS / tvOS / watchOS · Mac Catalyst · macOS · Core Data · CoreLocation · StoreKit / In-App Purchases · WebKit · Swift Package Manager · Git · CI/CD · JSON / REST · Core Animation · CorePlot · MySQL / MariaDB · PostgreSQL · Terminal · Game Center · Photos API · Address Book / Contacts · Push Notifications

💻 Development Experience

2020–present

COPATec — Senior SwiftUI Developer

Delivered production SwiftUI features across multiple engagements with the same client, including the GYMReport and Lactate Express fitness-tracking apps used by sports clubs including Bayern Munich.

2024

Quartett mobile GmbH (Cariad / Volkswagen Group) — Senior iOS Developer

Built features for the myAudi App with a large iOS & Android team.

2023

Pictarine — visionOS Developer

Built a proof-of-concept port to visionOS right after the Beta SDK release.

2023–24

Alby (Bitcoin wallet) — iOS & macOS Extension Developer

Ported an existing Web Extension to Safari on Mac, then to iOS, iPadOS and visionOS.

2021–22

DeepUp.ai — Senior SwiftUI Developer

Built app functionality for a hardware platform mapping underground utility pits to centimeter precision.

2020

Klingel Group (freelance) — SwiftUI Developer

Modernised a white-label retail app family from browser-based to mostly native SwiftUI.

since 2019

Tapwork (SolarDashboard) — Apple Developer

Built a SwiftUI + Combine solar-panel monitoring app spanning iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac (Catalyst).

2019

e.GO Digital — Senior Lead Apple Technologist

Acted as iOS lead for this electric-car app maker, managing three junior developers and shipping two apps.

2017–19

certgate GmbH — Apple Technologist (Lead iOS Dev)

Led frameworks for smart-card security products (OneKeyID, AirID) delivered to integrating customers.

2014–17

Seven Principles AG (7P) — Apple Technologist (Lead iOS Dev)

First dedicated iOS developer at this 650-person firm; delivered for Deutsche Post/DHL and Vorwerk.

📖 Teaching, Speaking & Writing

Teaching Apple-platform development since ~2010: a 5-day professional iOS/SwiftUI course, plus macOS/device-management training. Clients include Alcatel (Strasbourg), Pirelli, BKA, Polizei Hannover, Carhartt, GFU, LinkedIn Learning, and the Apple Foundation Program. Teaches in English, French, German and Spanish.

Author, Apress: a 230-page book on privacy on Apple platforms, commissioned after a talk in 2018.

Speaking at conferences since 2009: NSConference NSSpain SwiftConf (founder) Macoun Swift Heroes Pragma AppDevCon iOSDevUK mDevCamp AltConf @ WWDC SwiftIsland

🗣️ Languages

French — mother tongue  ·  English, German, Spanish — fluent  ·  Italian, Dutch — basic  ·  Arabic — learning