# Farid Valiyev — CV > I'm Farid Valiyev, a Senior iOS Developer at ABB and founder of horeca.az. I've spent 12 years building mobile banking apps, backends and ERP systems in Baku. - Also written as: Fərid Vəliyev (Azerbaijani), Ferit Veliyev (Turkish), Фарид Велиев (Russian) - Website: https://faridvaliyev.com/en/ - CV in Azerbaijani: https://faridvaliyev.com/az/cv.md - Last updated: 2026-10-05 Role and project descriptions are quoted from the website, where Farid Valiyev writes in the first person. ## Profile - Current roles: - Senior iOS Developer · Digital channels — ABB, Nov 2024 – present - Founder — horeca.az, Sept 2018 – present - Location: Baku, Azerbaijan (time zone Asia/Baku) - Experience in software: 12 years (Oct 2014 – present) - Experience on iOS: 9 years (Sept 2017 – present) - Email: info@faridvaliyev.com ### Areas of focus - **iOS & mobile** — I build banking apps in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit and Objective-C, plus Flutter or Android when a product needs both platforms. - **Applied AI** — I use AI agents across the engineering workflow, build LLM integrations and protect company data with DLP when teams use AI. - **Backend & APIs** — I design RESTful services, data models and integrations — from MongoDB-backed platforms to ERP back offices. - **Business systems** — I build ERP, accounting and offline-first POS for hospitality and retail, designed around Azerbaijani law and e-invoicing. - **Leading teams** — I lead developer and IT teams, set up CI/CD, and onboard and mentor engineers. ## Experience ### Senior iOS Developer · Digital channels — ABB Nov 2024 – present · Baku, Azerbaijan · https://abb-bank.az I 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. Stack: Swift, iOS, Apple Pay, Payments ### Founder — horeca.az Sept 2018 – present · Baku, Azerbaijan · https://horeca.az I 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. Stack: ERP, POS, Offline-first, Product ### Senior Mobile Developer — PASHA Bank Oct 2021 – Nov 2024 · Baku, Azerbaijan · https://www.pashabank.az 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. Stack: Swift, Objective-C, Apple Pay, CI/CD, Security ### Director of Software Development · Head of the Information Systems Management Department — Agro Procurement and Supply OJSC Sept 2019 – Oct 2021 · Baku, Azerbaijan · https://www.att.gov.az/az 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. Stack: Leadership, Web & mobile, CI/CD ### Backend → iOS Developer — Opal Transfer Sept 2017 – Feb 2021 · London, United Kingdom · https://www.opaltransfer.com 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. Stack: Swift, REST APIs, Databases ### Software Developer — IDRAK Technology Transfer Oct 2014 – Jul 2017 · Baku, Azerbaijan · https://idrak.com 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. Stack: Java, JavaFX, JSP, MongoDB, REST API, Android ### Early career and community - **Computer Teacher** — Piramida Education and Career Centre, Sept 2011 – Sept 2014. While at university, I taught IT fundamentals, Windows, Microsoft Office and design tools. - **IT Academy — volunteer coordinator & trainer** — Ireli Public Union, May 2011 – Sept 2012. As a volunteer, I coordinated and taught IT training programmes for students and young professionals. - **Introduction to Mobile Telecommunication Business** — Bakcell × Alcatel-Lucent × Junior Achievement, Jan 2010 – Mar 2010. As a first-year student, I finished in the top three of the qualifying tests and earned a place in the programme. ## Projects ### Own products #### horeca.az — ERP & POS ecosystem 2018 – present · Role: Founder · product & engineering lead · https://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. Products 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 Tags: ERP, POS, Offline-first, Cloud & on-prem, Frappe, C# / .NET #### ai-mask — AI security · DLP 2026 – present · Role: Author · design & engineering 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. Tags: Go, DLP, LLM security, PCI-DSS, GDPR ### Built at work, with the employers' teams #### ABB mobile — Mobile banking · iOS 2024 – present · Role: Senior iOS Developer 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. Tags: Swift, iOS, Apple Pay, Payments #### PASHA Bank — Retail & SME banking · iOS 2021 – 2024 · Role: Senior Mobile Developer 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. Tags: Swift, Objective-C, Apple Pay, TOTP, CI/CD #### Agro Procurement & Supply — Agritech platforms 2019 – 2021 · Role: Head of the Information Systems Management Department and Deputy Director of IT 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. Tags: Team lead, Web & mobile, CI/CD #### Opal Transfer — Money transfer · iOS & backend 2017 – 2021 · Role: Backend → iOS Developer · https://www.opaltransfer.com 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. Tags: Swift, REST APIs, Android lead #### Smart School · E-Library — EdTech · desktop, backend & Android 2014 – 2017 · Role: Software Developer 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. Tags: Java, JavaFX, MongoDB, Android ### Freelance and outsourcing - 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 Built up to 2020; ownership and authorship of these sites and apps may have changed since. ## Technologies - **Mobile** — iOS: Swift, Objective-C · Android: Kotlin, Java · Cross-platform: Flutter, Dart - **Web** — Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript · Server-side: PHP, JSP - **Backend** — Languages: C#, Java, Go, Python · Frameworks: .NET, Spring Boot, Frappe, JavaFX · Architecture: Microservices - **Data** — SQL: PostgreSQL, MariaDB / MySQL · NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis · Event streaming: Kafka - **DevOps & delivery** — Delivery: Git, CI/CD · Containers: Docker, Kubernetes · Servers: Linux, Nginx - **AI, security & fintech** — AI: AI agents, LLM integrations · Security: DLP, App security · Fintech: Payments, Apple Pay, QR & IBAN scanner ## Education - Bachelor's, Radio Engineering & Communication — Industrial Electronics — Azerbaijan Technical University, 2010 — 2014 ## Languages - Azerbaijani — Native - Turkish — Native level - English — Professional working proficiency - Russian — Elementary ## Recommendations From former managers on LinkedIn, quoted verbatim in the language they were written in. ### Karim Karimov — CTO Advisor My direct manager · PASHA Bank · Nov 2024 · https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerimovscreations/ > 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. ### Rashad Amirjanov — Director of Digital Engineering Head of my department · IDRAK, PASHA Bank · Nov 2024 · https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirjanov/ > 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. ### Rza Asadov — Founder of MeetVap My direct manager · Opal Transfer · Jan 2019 · https://www.linkedin.com/in/rza-asadov/ > 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. ## Writing - [Necə iş tapa bilərəm?](https://fmson.medium.com/nec%C9%99-i%C5%9F-tapa-bil%C9%99r%C9%99m-978d985e6a32) — Azerbaijani · 30 Oct 2024 · Title in English: “How can I find a job?” I look at job hunting from both sides, as an employee and as a business owner, and share what actually helps people land a job in tech. - [The Significance of CI/CD Pipelines in Mobile Application Development](https://fmson.medium.com/the-significance-of-ci-cd-pipelines-in-mobile-application-development-8f47ef247bc9) — English · 25 Feb 2024 I explain why mobile teams need CI/CD, which problems it removes and how automated pipelines change the way apps ship. ## Contact - Email: info@faridvaliyev.com - Location: Baku, Azerbaijan (time zone Asia/Baku) - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faridvaliyev-az/ (22K+ followers) - GitHub: https://github.com/fmson - Medium: https://fmson.medium.com/ ## Links - Website (English): https://faridvaliyev.com/en/ - Website (Azerbaijani): https://faridvaliyev.com/az/ - CV in Azerbaijani: https://faridvaliyev.com/az/cv.md - Summary for language models: https://faridvaliyev.com/llms.txt - Both CVs in one file: https://faridvaliyev.com/llms-full.txt