Abel Duarte
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Mobile Architect · Full-Stack Leader · AI Workflow Builder

Stronger teams through architecture, judgment, and AI.

Mobile architect helping teams ship better software through clean architecture, explicit API contracts, and practical AI workflows. I work across mobile, backend, QA, and product to turn hard-won engineering judgment into repeatable systems teams can actually use.

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AI-assisted software architecture workspace

AI-Enabled Engineering Leadership

Practical AI workflows that improve how teams ship

QA as code-aware partners

Designed read-only AI workflows that let QA inspect implementation details safely, validate new features against code, find regressions earlier, and spot TestRail coverage gaps.

Faster backend delivery

Partnered with backend engineers to use AI during API design, implementation, review, and deployment while keeping ownership, contracts, and edge cases explicit.

Cross-repo intelligence

Built AI-friendly workspaces across related repositories so agents could reason through mobile apps, backend services, shared contracts, and feature behavior together.

Reusable team practices

Converted repeatable engineering decisions into prompts, Codex skills, and review workflows that help teams apply stronger review patterns in day-to-day delivery.

Core Strengths

Where I create leverage

  • Mobile Architecture
  • AI Workflow Design
  • API Contract Design
  • QA Enablement
  • Cross-Repo Debugging
  • Engineering Leadership
  • iOS / Swift
  • React Native
  • Backend APIs
  • Test Coverage Strategy

Experience

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2024-Present Virgin Voyages

iOS Architect

Leading mobile architecture while designing practical, reviewable AI workflows for QA, backend, and mobile engineering teams.

  • Architected scalable iOS guest workflows using MVVM and Clean Architecture patterns.
  • Created Codex-based QA workflows that give testers safe read-only code context to validate features, find implementation bugs, and audit TestRail coverage gaps.
  • Partnered with backend engineers on AI-assisted API delivery, moving from requirements to deployed endpoints while keeping mobile contracts explicit.
  • Built cross-repository AI workspaces so agents could review mobile, backend, and shared code together before suggesting fixes or regression risks.
  • Turned senior review patterns into reusable AI workflows for code review, bug discovery, test coverage, API design, and release readiness.
2022-2024 Dentsu / Merkle · Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Mobile Architect

Architected a mobile rental flow that reduced customer friction while navigating enterprise legacy constraints.

  • Shaped mobile-ready API contracts with backend teams and clarified tradeoffs for product stakeholders.
  • Raised team quality through code reviews, testing expectations, training, and practical working agreements.
  • Set delivery expectations and negotiated timelines across product, design, and engineering partners.
2019-2022 Publicis Sapient · Spirit Airlines

Mobile Architect

Modernized airline mobile architecture and API integrations around legacy booking systems.

  • Redesigned API contracts to reduce payload complexity and improve mobile performance.
  • Refactored low-quality legacy code while continuing delivery of new booking and travel features.
  • Created scalable technical plans that helped improve app quality across iOS and Android.
2018-2019 Ernst & Young · Royal Caribbean

Enterprise Architect

Designed onboard augmented-reality experiences and reduced app footprint for ship-deployed guest features.

  • Embedded Unity inside the iOS application to support multiple AR experiences.
  • Designed onboard asset storage that reduced app size and improved download performance.
2016-2018 Univision / Fusion Media Group

Mobile Applications Lead

Led distributed mobile delivery across media properties including Univision.com, Gizmodo, and Gawker.

  • Directed six offshore Android and iOS engineers across multiple mobile products.
  • Implemented analytics and advertising initiatives that strengthened product and monetization decisions.
  • Built reusable components across native apps and React Native surfaces.
2014-2016 Powa / Smart Business Technology

Senior iOS Developer

Built SDKs and sales demo applications for payment hardware, scanner, printer, and card-reader integrations.

  • Drafted SDK specifications and coordinated consistency across iOS, Android, and Windows implementations.
  • Worked with international contractors on mobile-to-firmware communication protocols.
2013-2014 Felt

Senior iOS Developer

Stabilized mobile and backend systems for a greeting-card commerce product featured on Shark Tank.

  • Recovered outsourced code assets, migrated server infrastructure to AWS, and streamlined PHP services.
  • Shipped promotional, social sharing, and bulk-ordering features tied to revenue and margin goals.
2011-2013 Actimedia

Senior iOS Developer / Full-Stack Developer

Translated client business needs into estimates, technical requirements, and shipped mobile and web products.

  • Built web services, mobile apps, and web front ends for small-business clients.
  • Contributed to technical hiring and delivered products for Latin American companies.
2008-2011 Stem Innovation

Junior iOS Developer

Built early iOS and hardware-connected products for home automation, IP camera, and smart alarm clock experiences.

  • Created proof-of-concept apps used in fundraising materials.
  • Architected communication protocols between hardware accessories, mobile apps, and cloud infrastructure.

Let's build something better.

Open to architecture, AI workflow, and engineering leadership roles where stronger systems help teams ship better software.

Email abelduarte92@gmail.com
LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/abel-duarte