Iñigo Mato

About

Senior iOS Engineer & Tech Lead at Luzia, driving monetization and engagement for an AI assistant used by 85+ million people. Previously built iOS frameworks serving 30M+ users at Kindred Group (Unibet) and owned all iOS products at Navenio, bringing infrastructure-free indoor positioning to hospitals.

13+ years shipping software across AI, gaming, healthcare, aviation, and fintech. Scaled teams from 3 to 30. ~10M downloads on personal App Store apps. AI-assisted development advocate.

13+Years Experience

30M+Users Served

~10MApp Downloads

3→30Team Scaled

Developer.swift

struct Developer {
    let name = "Iñigo Mato"
    let role = "Senior iOS Engineer & Tech Lead"
    let location = "Madrid"
    let spoken = ["English", "Spanish", "French"]

    var passion: String {
        "Clean code, beautiful UIs, and AI"
    }
}

Journey

Feb 2025 — Present

Senior iOS Engineer & Tech Lead

Luzia · Madrid

Tech Lead across Monetization and Engagement for an AI assistant with 85M+ users. Owning revenue features — in-app advertising, paywalls, subscription flows — and leading gamification systems driving retention through rewards, streaks, and progression. Championing AI-assisted development workflows with Claude Code.

SwiftSwiftUIAITech Lead85M+ Users

Jun 2016 — Oct 2018 & Oct 2021 — Feb 2025

Senior iOS Engineer & Team Lead

Navenio · Oxford, UK & Remote

Two tenures. Full ownership of all iOS products — SDKs, frameworks, and apps — for Navenio's indoor positioning technology. Designed the core iOS library for third-party integration, built signal collection tools using CoreLocation, CoreBluetooth, and CoreMotion for venue fingerprinting, and shipped the Location App (staff/asset tracking) and Workforce App (AI-based workflow optimization).

CoreLocationCoreBluetoothCoreMotionSDK DesignTeam Lead

Oct 2018 — Oct 2021

Senior iOS Engineer & Agile Lead

Kindred Group (Unibet) · Madrid

Designed and deployed iOS frameworks powering all Unibet Casino and Sportsbook apps for 30M+ users: authentication, regulation compliance, networking, analytics, notifications, UI components, and security. Agile Lead across teams in UK, Sweden, and Spain. Scaled the Madrid engineering team from 3 to 30 — interviewing, onboarding, mentoring, and establishing team processes.

Frameworks30M+ UsersAgile Lead3→30 Team

May 2015 — Jun 2016

iOS Software Engineer

Media inMotion (AeroFi) · Milton Keynes, UK

In-flight entertainment apps for Four Seasons Private Jet, Saudia Private Aviation, Titan Airlines, TCS World Travel, and Monarch Airlines — media players, magazine readers, HTML5 games, and real-time flight maps. Initiated MVP for Monarch's Concierge App with flight search, booking, and mobile boarding passes.

iOSMediaAviation

Jan 2014 — May 2015

Online Content Manager

Amazon · Madrid

Owned online content for Home & Lighting, Kitchen, and Personal Care categories plus the Christmas Store. Planned traffic and content strategies, analyzed KPIs using SQL.

E-CommerceSQLAnalytics

Jun 2012 — Jan 2014

Software Engineer

Kuapay · Santa Monica, US

QR mobile payment iOS app interfacing with a payment gateway backend through a point-of-sale system.

PaymentsFintechPOS

2006 — 2012

MEng Electronics Engineering

ICAI School of Engineering (Comillas) & ICAM · Spain & France

1st class honours (7.5/10). Certificate in Mobile Robotic Systems (9.5/10). Erasmus at ICAM, Lille, France. Graduated with Excellence Scholarships and Goya Mundus award.

EngineeringRoboticsErasmusHonors

Projects

Luzia: Your AI Assistant

AI-powered personal assistant available on iOS, Android, and web. Handles chat, image generation, audio transcription, PDF processing, translation, and more — designed to make AI intuitive, human, and free for everyone.

85M+

Users worldwide

App in 5+ countries

4.5★

App Store rating

🎰

Kindred Group — Unibet Casino & Sportsbook

Designed and deployed the iOS framework layer powering all Unibet Casino and Sportsbook apps — authentication, regulation compliance, networking, analytics, push notifications, UI components, and security. Used across the entire Kindred Group app portfolio.

30M+

Users served

3→30

Team scaled

UK/SE/ES

Cross-site teams

Gaming

Navenio — Indoor Positioning

Full ownership of all iOS products — SDKs, frameworks, and apps — for infrastructure-free indoor positioning. Built the Location App for staff/asset tracking and the Workforce App for AI-based workflow optimization in hospitals.

Beacons required

NHS

Hospital deployments

Tenures (rejoined)

Healthcare

✈️

Media inMotion (AeroFi)

IFE apps for Four Seasons Private Jet, Saudia, Titan, TCS World Travel, and Monarch Airlines. Media players, flight maps, and mobile boarding passes.

Aviation

📦

Amazon

Online content management for Home, Kitchen, and Personal Care categories. Traffic strategy and KPI analysis.