Software architecture.
AI integration.
Hands-on delivery.
I build web and mobile products, integrate useful AI capabilities, and help teams adopt AI across planning, development, testing, and review.
Selected engagements
Application architecture, engineering leadership, and delivery across client engagements.
- Digital banking
UNFCU
Web & mobile architecture · AI-assisted delivery
Application architecture and development workflows for digital banking, including structured planning, implementation, testing, and review with BMAD.
- 2012 — 2021
PIMCO
VP, Mobile Team Lead / Application Architect
Built and led the mobile technology practice at one of the world’s largest investment managers. Delivered a broad portfolio of internal mobile applications across the business, plus PIMCO’s consumer-facing apps on the public App Store.
- 2021 — 2022
Levi Strauss & Co.
Senior Mobile Architect
Owned architecture for Levi's global consumer app in React Native, supporting an international e-commerce footprint across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- 2024 — 2025
Centene Corporation
Director, Mobile Architecture
Directed architecture and delivery for the Ambetter Health and Medicare Health Portal mobile apps across multiple U.S. states, leading a distributed engineering team.
Projects & open source All work →
Independent products from Pocket Atelier and open source tools I build and maintain.
- 2026 — now
Bips AI
An AI-assisted market research app from Pocket Atelier. Built the mobile app and backend pipeline for source-backed analysis, bull and bear cases, synthesis, and cost tracking.
active View project → - 2026 — now
Convexy
An on-device file converter for iOS and Android from Pocket Atelier. Built native apps that process images, audio, video, documents, and archives without uploading files.
active View project → - 2024 — now
wallet-kit
React Native library for integrating with Apple Wallet (iOS) and Google Wallet (Android) — unified API for adding passes across both platforms. ~250 weekly downloads.
maintained View project →
About
Hi, I’m Aziz. I started writing software at eighteen — first year of college in Istanbul, on a Sinclair Spectrum. BASIC, Z80, tape-cassette storage.
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