Karolína Droscová

Economist by training. Engineer by choice.

I studied financial economics in Toronto, then software engineering in Prague. Now I build iOS and Android apps, with AI doing most of the typing and me deciding what's worth building and how it should work.

Experience

Native mobile developer · MeguMethod

2025 – present

Migrated 4+ Slevomat features to Kotlin Multiplatform for 70k+ monthly users. Co-developed the shared ViewModel approach now used for all new features, owning iOS lifecycle integration and SwiftUI state binding.
Sole Apple Watch developer for five Záchranka country apps: delivered on schedule, ~19% below estimate (130 vs. 160 hours). Owned architecture, client technical discussions, and data refresh within watchOS background limits.
Drove automated testing and CI adoption: shared Kotlin tests grew from 4 to 1,500+ and iOS from zero to 140+. Made SwiftLint checks mandatory in CI and added pre-push static analysis.
Built reusable AI agent skills for implementation, build/test verification, regression review, and cross-platform QA; introduced shared architecture and concurrency rules for CI code review.
Extended fintech Apple Wallet and transaction flows, refactored card screens, and built shared Kotlin logic with native iOS UI.

Education

BSc, Software Engineering · FIT CTU, Prague · Grade average A

2022 – 2025

Software Team Project Lead
Built and shipped Life is Skill to the App Store as my bachelor thesis.

Honours BSc, Financial Economics · University of Toronto · GPA 3.98

2019 – 2022

Co-founder and president, Czech & Slovak Student Organization
Team lead, 180 Degrees Consulting

Skills

Mobile: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, watchOS · Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform, Jetpack Compose
Architecture: MVVM, MVI, MVVM-C · Swift Concurrency, Combine · Coroutines, Flow/StateFlow
Testing: XCTest, kotlin.test, coroutine regression tests · Proxyman backend mocks
Tooling & APIs: Git, GitLab CI/CD, Tuist, Fastlane, SwiftLint, Detekt · REST, GraphQL · Spring Boot (projects)
AI development: Claude Code, Codex · Custom agent skills and workflows · Parallel Git worktrees

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022–2025)

Awards

University of Toronto Scholar (2020)
Dean's List Scholar (2020, 2021, 2022)

Languages

Czech (native) · English (C2) · Spanish (B2)