FaridValiyev
I build mobile banking apps, backends & APIs that scale, ERP & POS ecosystems, AI tools that keep data safe, products, end to end.
I'm a senior iOS developer and founder with 12 years in mobile, backend and web. I've shipped mobile banking apps and led software teams. Today I'm building horeca.az, an ERP and POS ecosystem for hospitality and retail.
- years in software
- 12
- years building for iOS
- 9
- banks & fintechs
- 3
- followers on LinkedIn
- 22K+
Products I've shipped with my teams.
Mobile banking, money transfers, agriculture and education — I've built products in all four, as an engineer and as a team lead.
ABB mobile
The mobile bank of one of Azerbaijan's leading banks. In the Digital Channels team I work on customer-facing features, including card top-ups with Apple Pay.
My role: Senior iOS Developer
PASHA Bank
I worked on the bank's Retail and SME mobile banking apps for iOS. I built dynamic payments from scratch, integrated Apple Pay, implemented TOTP and app-security mechanisms, and set up CI/CD for the mobile team.
My role: Senior Mobile Developer
Agro Procurement & Supply
Public platforms such as Kənddən Şəhərə (online market), Şəhərdən Kəndə (tourism and booking app), AFAQ, Qurbanlıq, Yarmarka and a supply-chain quality-control app — I worked on building them as head of department and team lead.
My role: Head of the Information Systems Management Department and Deputy Director of IT
Opal Transfer
A UK money-transfer service. I started on the backend, building REST APIs and the data layer, then led the iOS app to launch and coordinated the Android side.
My role: Backend → iOS Developer
Smart School · E-Library
I built the Smart School E-Library module end to end. Books were split by topic and indexed in MongoDB, so search was fast; in the Android app you could find a topic across every book and download just those sections as a new book — or the whole book — to open in the reader app.
My role: Software Developer
Products I've built from the ground up.
Here I own every stage, from the idea to the release: product, design and code.
horeca.az
I'm building a local software ecosystem for hospitality and retail: ERP, POS, QR menus and a B2B store. It connects every core process, from the sale at the till to the financial report. It follows Azerbaijani law, keeps selling when the internet drops, and runs in the cloud or on-premise.
My role: Founder · product & engineering lead
In the ecosystem
NextAZ
ERP, accounting, inventory, HR and e-invoicing
NextCashier
Offline-first POS for retail stores
NextTerminal
POS for restaurants — floor, hall and kitchen
NextMenu
Digital QR menus for restaurants and cafés
Horeca Store
B2B online store for hospitality businesses
ai-mask
I built a local DLP gateway that sits between AI coding assistants and LLM APIs. It finds card numbers, IBANs, secrets and customer names in outgoing prompts and files, and swaps them for reversible local tokens, or redacts them, before anything leaves the machine. When the model replies, it puts the real values back.
- I kept it to one auditable Go binary: standard library only, builds offline.
- It detects data by key, by pattern (Luhn, IBAN mod-97, entropy) and with a local ML sensitivity model.
- Every masking is logged for audit as counts only, never the values. I mapped it to PCI-DSS and GDPR.
My role: Author · design & engineering
I'm an engineer who builds products.
You don't notice good software while it's there — only when it's gone. It quietly does its job.
I studied radio engineering and industrial electronics at Azerbaijan Technical University, and I was already teaching computer courses before I graduated. Since 2014 I've built software for education, money transfers, agriculture and banking. I started with backend and Android, moved to iOS, and went from writing code to leading the teams that write it.
Today I'm a Senior iOS Developer in ABB's digital channels team and the founder of horeca.az. I care about software that is secure, fast and easy to maintain.
AI is now part of how I work. I use AI agents across the whole engineering cycle, from analysis to code review. I also build tools that make AI safe for companies, like ai-mask: a DLP layer that keeps sensitive data out of LLM services.
Azerbaijan Technical University
Bachelor's, Radio Engineering & Communication — Industrial Electronics
2010 — 2014
- AzerbaijaniNative
- TurkishNative level
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency
- RussianElementary
What I do
01 / 0501
iOS & mobile
I build banking apps in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit and Objective-C, plus Flutter or Android when a product needs both platforms.
- Swift
- SwiftUI
- UIKit
- Objective-C
- Apple Pay
- Flutter
- Android
02
Applied AI
I use AI agents across the engineering workflow, build LLM integrations and protect company data with DLP when teams use AI.
- AI agents
- LLM
- DLP
- Go
- PCI-DSS
- GDPR
03
Backend & APIs
I design RESTful services, data models and integrations — from MongoDB-backed platforms to ERP back offices.
- REST
- Microservices
- C# / .NET
- Java
- Spring Boot
- Go
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Kafka
04
Business systems
I build ERP, accounting and offline-first POS for hospitality and retail, designed around Azerbaijani law and e-invoicing.
- ERP
- POS
- Offline-first
- Frappe
- C# / .NET
05
Leading teams
I lead developer and IT teams, set up CI/CD, and onboard and mentor engineers.
- Team lead
- CI/CD
- Code review
- Mentoring
- Git
From the classroom to mobile banking.
I've been shipping software for 12 years — for banks, fintech, agriculture, education and my own company.
Nov 2024 — Present
Baku, Azerbaijan
Senior iOS Developer · Digital channels
PresentI build customer-facing mobile banking features for one of Azerbaijan's leading banks, in a cross-functional team of developers, designers and product managers.
- I built card top-ups with Apple Pay.
- I ship features in Swift, following agile practices and clean-code principles.
SwiftiOSApple PayPaymentsSept 2018 — Present
Baku, Azerbaijan
Founder
PresentI founded horeca.az in 2018. Today it's a local ecosystem of ERP, POS, QR-menu and B2B-store products for hospitality and retail.
- I lead product and engineering for NextAZ (ERP & accounting), NextCashier (retail POS), NextTerminal (restaurant POS), NextMenu (QR menus) and Horeca Store.
- I designed it around Azerbaijani law and e-invoicing, with offline-first sales and both cloud and on-premise deployment.
- I test it every day in a real retail and hospitality business.
ERPPOSOffline-firstProductOct 2021 — Nov 2024
Baku, Azerbaijan
Senior Mobile Developer
I built iOS apps in Swift for the bank's customers and employees, as part of an agile, cross-functional team.
- I developed the bank's Retail and SME mobile banking apps for iOS.
- I built dynamic payments from scratch, integrated Apple Pay, and implemented TOTP and app-security mechanisms.
- I set up CI/CD pipelines and onboarded and mentored new iOS engineers.
SwiftObjective-CApple PayCI/CDSecuritySept 2019 — Oct 2021
Baku, Azerbaijan
Director of Software Development · Head of the Information Systems Management Department
Agro Procurement and Supply OJSC
I held a dual role across software development and IT management, leading a team of developers and IT professionals.
- I was responsible for planning, delivery, budgets and quality across the company's software projects.
- I introduced CI/CD to automate builds, testing and deployment.
- With my team I launched Kənddən Şəhərə, Şəhərdən Kəndə, AFAQ, Qurbanlıq, Yarmarka and a supply-chain quality-control app.
LeadershipWeb & mobileCI/CDSept 2017 — Feb 2021
London, United Kingdom
Backend → iOS Developer
I joined this UK money-transfer service as a backend developer, then led its iOS app to launch.
- I designed and built RESTful APIs and the data layer, with a focus on stability, scalability and security.
- I led iOS development from UI design to the App Store release, and coordinated the Android side to keep both platforms consistent.
SwiftREST APIsDatabasesOct 2014 — Jul 2017
Baku, Azerbaijan
Software Developer
On the Smart School project the E-Library module was mine end to end — from preparing the books to the Android app.
- Wrote a JavaFX desktop app that split EPUB books into sections by topic and stored them in MongoDB, indexed for fast search.
- Built the server side on MongoDB: a JSP backend with a REST API.
- Wrote the Android client: search a topic across all books, download only the matching sections as a new book or the full book, and open it in the reader app.
JavaJavaFXJSPMongoDBREST APIAndroid
Where I started
Sept 2011 — Sept 2014
Computer Teacher
Piramida Education and Career Centre
While at university, I taught IT fundamentals, Windows, Microsoft Office and design tools.
May 2011 — Sept 2012
IT Academy — volunteer coordinator & trainer
Ireli Public Union
As a volunteer, I coordinated and taught IT training programmes for students and young professionals.
Jan 2010 — Mar 2010
Introduction to Mobile Telecommunication Business
Bakcell × Alcatel-Lucent × Junior Achievement
As a first-year student, I finished in the top three of the qualifying tests and earned a place in the programme.
What my managers say.
Their words from LinkedIn, quoted exactly as written.
It was a pleasure to work with Farid to solve technical challenges on our both iOS applications. He has broad range of knowledge in software engineering including microchip programming, machine learning, backend, web, mobile fields. His dedication on work resulted serial successful projects - building dynamic payments from scratch, TOTP implementation, security mechanisms, CI/CD pipeline building and etc. He also helped several software engineers to onboard our team effectively and guided them to excel in programming.
Farid is very experienced on iOS development side. He was developed Retail and SME mobile apps and while developing he helped other engineers to build their technical capabilities and develop the software engineering practices.
I am working with Farid for years. Farid very creative person, in all of our project he always showed his creativity. We team stuck Farid always has some incredible way. Farid also one the best developers that I know. His developing skills always impress me, because he always gets the best balance between the latest technologies and cost efficiency.
Beyond the day job.
As a freelancer and outsourcing partner, I've built products for businesses in travel, retail, law and more.
These sites and apps were built up to 2020. Ownership and authorship of their current versions may have changed.
turmarket.az
Travel platform
orqanikqida.az
Organic food store
aqrar.market
Farm marketplace
perfume.az
Perfume store
lawyers.az
Law firm website
huquq.online
Online legal services
turkcehiz.com
Surgiconn
Evol
advWillis
advAirArabia
More2Save
APC
Have a project in mind?
I take on a few outside projects a year — tell me about yours.
I work on every layer, mobile most of all.
Technologies I've used in production — from the device to the database.
Mobile
06- iOS
- Swift
- Objective-C
- Android
- Kotlin
- Java
- Cross-platform
- Flutter
- Dart
Web
04- Frontend
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Server-side
- PHP
- JSP
Backend
09- Languages
- C#
- Java
- Go
- Python
- Frameworks
- .NET
- Spring Boot
- Frappe
- JavaFX
- Architecture
- Microservices
Data
05- SQL
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB / MySQL
- NoSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Event streaming
- Kafka
DevOps & delivery
06- Delivery
- Git
- CI/CD
- Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Servers
- Linux
- Nginx
AI, security & fintech
07- AI
- AI agents
- LLM integrations
- Security
- DLP
- App security
- Fintech
- Payments
- Apple Pay
- QR & IBAN scanner
I share what I've learned.
Have a product in mind? Let's build it.
Whether it's a mobile app, a platform or a team that needs a senior engineer, I'm happy to talk.
info@faridvaliyev.com
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