iOS Developer · Amsterdam

Alisdair Mills

25 years building software, 17 of those on Apple platforms. Currently freelancing in Amsterdam — shipping iOS apps for startups using agentic AI workflows that let me move absurdly fast.

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Previously built things for

NOWATCH IKEA Ford McKinsey Facebook NBC Universal

The short version

Why hire me

I've been building iOS apps since 2009 — back when you had to manually manage memory and UITableView was exciting. These days I pair that deep platform knowledge with agentic AI workflows (Claude, custom pipelines, offline models) that genuinely change how fast one person can ship.

This isn't "I use Copilot." I've spent the last year building custom AI development workflows. The result: I work more like a small team than a single contractor.

2009

Building iOS apps since iPhone OS 3

~2–3x

Faster output via agentic workflows

ZZP

Registered freelancer, Amsterdam-based

Swift

SwiftUI, UIKit, Metal, the whole stack

Work

Things I've built

Qija

Personal Project · Music Discovery

iOS music discovery app with AI-powered recommendations, social listening, and a Swift backend. Built entirely with agentic AI workflows.

Swift
SwiftUI
AI/ML
Server-Side Swift

Pangea.inc

EV Discovery · Los Angeles

iOS development for an electric vehicle discovery platform helping drivers find and compare EVs.

Swift
SwiftUI
iOS

NOWATCH

Health Wearable · Amsterdam · $8.7M raised

iOS development for the companion app to the NOWATCH stress and nervous system tracking wearable.

Swift
SwiftUI
HealthKit

IKEA

Kitchen Planner

Ford

Canopy

McKinsey & Co

Urban World

Facebook

Portal

Rekki

Restaurant Ordering

Design Museum

Spirit

Playground

Anonymous Camera

Playground

Worklens

Crowne Plaza

Hotel Experience

Straat

Game / Learning Platform

Velo

Cycling App

NBC Universal

Beyond the Screen

Channel 4

Million Pound Drop

Lady Gaga

Artpop App

Adidas

Lyon AR

How I work

Rates & engagement

I'm upfront about pricing because life's too short for the "let's hop on a call to discuss rates" dance. Here's how we can work together:

Sprints

From €8,000

2-week sprint, fixed scope, defined deliverables. Good for features and MVPs.

Retainer

From €5,000/month

15–20 hrs/week, ongoing. Part developer, part technical co-founder. Best for startups that need embedded expertise.

Day Rate

€800/day

Flexible, minimum 3 days. Good for code audits, architecture reviews, or filling a gap.

All prices ex. BTW. Happy to chat through what makes sense for your situation — no commitment.

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About

The longer version

I got into software development in the early 2000s and never really stopped. When the iPhone SDK dropped in 2008, I dove in — and I've been deep in the Apple ecosystem ever since. 17 years of iOS, watchOS, tvOS, macOS. I've lost count of the Xcode betas.

Along the way I've built things for IKEA, Ford, McKinsey, Facebook, Lady Gaga (yes, really), and a bunch of startups. Most recently I worked on Pangea.inc, an EV discovery startup out of LA — and before that on NOWATCH here in Amsterdam — a health wearable tracking stress via your nervous system.

Right now I'm freelancing and obsessively building with AI. Not the "slap an LLM API on it" kind — I mean agentic coding workflows where Claude and custom pipelines handle the boilerplate while I focus on architecture and the hard problems. I also run local models via Ollama and LM Studio because sometimes you want inference without the internet.

Side project: Qija — an iOS music discovery app with AI-powered recommendations and a Swift backend. It's my playground for pushing what one developer can ship.

Based in Amsterdam, NL

Languages English (native)

Status ZZP registered, KVK

Writing

Notes & thinking

02.04.2026

Building an App Feature with Your Own AI Agent Team

How I built a multi-agent orchestrator inside pi agent — with research, planning, and implementation sub-agents wired into a single pipeline.

08.04.2026

Running Locally on a Raspberry Pi: A Report from Gemma 4 E2B

A small open-weight model, running CPU-only on a Pi 5, writes its own report on being asked to perform an agentic coding task — and what broke along the way.

Contact

Let's talk

Got a project, a vague idea, or just want to nerd out about Swift? I'm always happy to chat.

Email alisdairmills@pm.me

Phone +31 6 48089258

LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/alisdair-mills

Location Amsterdam, Netherlands