Independent systems builder for Apple and Web products
I build the systems behind complex apps.
AI can generate quickly. The value is knowing how the app should be architected. I combine years of Apple/Web development experience with AI acceleration to build prototypes, demos, POCs, and production-ready systems faster.
Available for selected projects
Apple/Web product systems, handled directly.
iOS macOS Web APIs AI 3D
20+ client apps shipped
2011 freelance since
Architect the system, steer AI output, connect the app/web/backend pieces, then harden what proves valuable.
What you are hiring
A direct senior builder for the app, the web layer, and the connective tissue between them.
My name is Andrei Gora. Since 2011 I have worked as an independent systems builder on Apple apps, web tools, full-stack product systems, demos, experiments, and ongoing production work.
I am useful when the project needs someone who can understand the product, talk clearly with the owner, make technical decisions, build the app, shape the web/API layer, connect the backend, and keep pushing when the path is not obvious.
AI-era development
AI moves fast. Experienced architecture turns that speed into a real product.
Years of development judgment shape the system.
Product boundaries, app state, data models, API contracts, security assumptions, and failure paths come from experience. AI is powerful, but architecture decides whether the result holds together.
AI makes the experienced builder faster.
Fast prototypes, demos, POCs, scaffolds, migrations, tests, admin tools, scripts, and alternate UI flows can move dramatically faster when the person steering the work knows what good looks like.
Clients need coherence, not just generated code.
I review, connect, simplify, and harden AI-assisted work so it becomes a usable app system instead of a pile of plausible fragments.
Services
Where I can help
Apple Product Systems
iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, and Apple TV products built around real workflows, custom UI, device APIs, backend services, and production reliability.
Web and API Systems
Web tools, dashboards, custom scripting, API integrations, upload flows, databases, operational panels, and the glue that keeps a product moving.
Complex Technical Prototypes
Depth cameras, 3D capture, AR demos, media workflows, sensors, device integrations, and unusual ideas that need a working path before they need a large team.
AI-Accelerated Prototypes
Years of development architecture, armed with AI, to move faster on prototypes, demos, POCs, admin tools, scripts, migrations, tests, and product experiments.
Modernization and Rescue
Legacy Objective-C, UIKit, Swift, SwiftUI, brittle integrations, abandoned prototypes, and apps that need a senior developer to untangle the hard parts.
Technical Product Partnership
A direct freelancer relationship for founders and small teams who need clear technical judgment, fast iteration, and honest communication.
Selected work
Production apps, unusual hardware, and difficult integrations.
iPhone and iPad
Self-Scanner
3D foot scanning from TrueDepth camera data
A production iOS scanning solution that captures a foot with the front-facing TrueDepth camera, turns depth and color data into a usable 3D model, and uploads sessions for review and fabrication.
- Proposed, prototyped, and built the production scanning workflow from scratch.
- Combined color and depth imagery into point clouds and meshes suitable for custom 3D printed insoles.
- Integrated secure session tracking and scan uploads through a central API.
SwiftSwiftUIOpen3DDepth dataSecure API
iPad and iPhone
Kiwi 3D Scanner
iPad scanning with external Structure Sensor
A medical workflow app that connected patient management software with external 3D scanning hardware, uploads, attachments, and orthotics fabrication.
- Built scanning functionality around the Occipital Structure Sensor SDK.
- Delivered the first version in Objective-C and later rewrote the app in Swift.
- Worked from documentation and remote testers without constant physical access to the scanner.
C++Objective-CSwiftUIKitStructure SDK
iPad
DeltaVision Elite
Augmented reality microscope demo
An AR demo app for a high-end electronic microscope, using live image target detection and an interactive 3D model for event and product presentations.
- Combined Unity, Vuforia, C#, and native iPad UI at a time when the integration path was not mature.
- Built a hybrid workflow so the AR scene and native interface could behave like one product.
- Delivered an internal event demo for a technically demanding hardware product.
Objective-CUnity3DC#VuforiaAR
Mac
Calm Radio for Mac
macOS streaming app
A macOS version of Calm Radio with a custom scrolling station interface, membership-aware playback, and backend integration.
- Recreated a complex multidirectional station browsing UI on macOS.
- Handled multiple streaming states based on membership and station access.
- Integrated the app with an existing client backend.
Objective-CmacOSStreaming audioClient API
iPhone and iPad
RotoShoot
Image-based 3D object capture
A mobile and web system for capturing objects in 3D-like rotations and sharing them online.
- Built capture logic for turntable-based and handheld object scans.
- Used live gyroscope and quaternion math to guide automatic image capture.
- Created mobile, web, and backend pieces for the first freelance project in the portfolio.
Objective-CSwiftAVFoundationCoreMotionEC2MySQL
iPhone and iPad
Digital Runes
Experimental SwiftUI app
An experimental SwiftUI app exploring random number streams, pattern detection, symbolic interpretation, and a more playful edge of software craft.
- Generated and analyzed high-frequency random number sets.
- Mapped statistically unusual patterns into rune interpretations.
- Shipped as a personal product on the App Store.
SwiftSwiftUIRandom systemsPattern detection
Workflow
From rough technical uncertainty to a product people can use.
Map the unknowns
Clarify the product goal, platform constraints, risky integrations, and what must be proven first.
Build the proof
Prototype the hard part quickly: sensor flow, capture logic, API contract, media pipeline, or AI loop.
Shape the system
Turn the working path into maintainable app structure, interface states, backend flows, and deployment habits.
Ship and refine
Harden edge cases, improve clarity, support release, and keep the next iteration grounded in real use.
Good fit
I am strongest when the project has real technical uncertainty.
If you need a standard brochure site, there are cheaper options. If you need an app that touches cameras, sensors, depth data, streaming, custom APIs, existing legacy code, or a strange product workflow, that is much closer to my zone.
Working principles
- Respect the product owner’s vision and constraints.
- Prototype quickly, then harden the parts that prove worth keeping.
- Communicate honestly about risk, cost, and unknowns.
- Build for production, maintenance, and future developers.
Technical range
Tools and platforms
SwiftSwiftUIUIKitObjective-CmacOSAVFoundationCoreMotionARVuforiaUnity3DC++Open3DAWSFirebaseLAMPCustom APIsAI-assisted workflows
Contact
Tell me what you are trying to build, fix, or prove.
Send the product goal, current stage, platform, budget range if you have one, and where the risk feels highest. I will reply with a practical next step.