Head of Engineering — New York, NY

Vincent Toms

25 years building high-scale mobile platforms · AI-driven engineering leader

For 25 years I've built mobile platforms at the scale of millions — and the engineering teams that ship them. Today I lead engineering at Cloaked, rewiring how software gets built around AI. I write about what actually changes when you put models in the critical path.

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25+ Years building software
80+ Engineers led
50M+ App downloads shipped
35% Faster cycles with AI

Experience

Two decades, one throughline.

Building mobile platforms at the scale of millions — and growing the engineering teams that ship them.

  1. Nov 2023 — Present New York, NY

    Cloaked

    Head of Engineering

    • Lead 50+ engineers across mobile, backend, web, and platform — promoted from Head of Mobile after scaling and stabilizing the core product.
    • Rolled Claude, Cursor, and Copilot across every team, cutting development cycle time 35%.
    • Architected the AI-powered workflows now standard here: LLM-assisted review, automated test generation, and AI pair programming.
    • Own engineering strategy, architecture, reliability, and the talent bar — grew the team 40% without lowering it.
    • Swift
    • SwiftUI
    • Kotlin
    • Python
    • LLMs
    • Claude
    • AWS
  2. Sep 2022 — Nov 2023 New York, NY

    Accenture

    Director of Engineering & Global Lead, Generative AI Build Practice

    • Directed 80+ engineers across mobile, web, DevOps, and QA delivering for Fortune 500 clients.
    • Founded the Global Generative AI Build Practice — defined enterprise AI architecture standards and LLM integration patterns.
    • Architected offline-first mobile platforms that eliminated 70% of server dependencies for major transportation clients.
    • Built training curricula that lifted engineering velocity 40%.
    • Swift
    • SwiftUI
    • Flutter
    • Python
    • LLMs
    • AI Agents
  3. May 2021 — Sep 2022 New York, NY

    Revel Transit

    Native Platform Team Lead

    • Directed iOS and Android engineering for an electric vehicle-sharing platform serving 500K+ riders.
    • Unified cross-platform architecture, cutting code duplication 35%.
    • Drove reliability to 99.5% crash-free sessions through systematic quality work.
    • Swift
    • SwiftUI
    • MVVM
    • Kotlin
  4. Jan 2019 — May 2021 New York, NY

    iHeartMedia

    Staff iOS Engineer

    • Modernized the flagship streaming app (50M+ downloads): migrated legacy Objective-C to Swift and pioneered SwiftUI adoption.
    • Designed a shared component framework that accelerated feature delivery 30%.
    • Mentored 5 engineers; 3 advanced to senior roles within 18 months.
    • Swift
    • SwiftUI
    • Objective-C
    • MVVM
  5. Jun 2018 — Jan 2019 New York, NY

    SevenRooms

    Senior iOS Engineer

    • Transformed a legacy iOS codebase with a Swift rewrite on scalable MVVM.
    • Launched the Android app from zero in Kotlin, reaching feature parity in 4 months.
    • Overhauled the engineering hiring pipeline, cutting time-to-hire 25%.
    • Swift
    • Kotlin
    • Python
    • Google Cloud
  6. Jan 2016 — Jun 2018 Cambridge, MA

    Intrepid Pursuits (Accenture)

    Director of iOS Engineering / Senior Principal Engineer

    • Led multiple delivery teams building client applications across healthcare, finance, and retail.
    • Instituted testing standards reaching 85%+ code coverage organization-wide.
    • Developed senior engineers into leaders; 4 promoted into management.
    • Swift
    • RxSwift
    • MVVM
    • Go
  7. Jan 2014 — Jan 2016 Boston, MA

    Zipcar

    iOS Team Lead

    • Scaled the iOS team from 3 to 15 engineers while holding delivery velocity.
    • Architected a platform serving 1M+ active users at 99.9% uptime.
    • Implemented CI/CD and automated testing, compressing release cycles from 4 weeks to 1.
    • Swift
    • Objective-C
    • Realm
    • MQTT
    • Protocol Buffers
  8. Feb 2013 — Dec 2013 Waltham, MA

    Exoprise

    Lead Architect

    • Architected a cloud monitoring platform with custom JavaScript sensors and C++/Qt extensions.
    • Ruby on Rails
    • C++ / Qt
    • AWS
    • MongoDB
  9. Jul 2012 — Dec 2012 New York, NY

    Adore Me

    Chief Technology Officer

    • Defined technology strategy for an e-commerce startup and scaled infrastructure through a 10x traffic surge.
    • Launched a native iOS app that lifted mobile conversion 45%.
    • iOS
    • E-commerce
    • Infrastructure
  10. Sep 2010 — Jul 2012 New York, NY

    mcgarrybowen

    Senior Mobile Developer

    • Built the official Central Park Android app and enterprise iOS solutions for major brand clients.
    • Android
    • iOS
    • Objective-C
  11. 1996 — 2010 Kansas City, MO

    Earlier career

    Fourteen years across enterprise healthcare, IoT, security, and the early web — where the architecture instincts came from.

    • Cerner — Lead & Software Architect Enterprise healthcare systems (2001–04, 2007–08)
    • SiriCOMM Inc. — Enterprise Architect IoT, GPS tracking, embedded Linux (2004–07)
    • Ernst & Young LLP — Senior Security Specialist Penetration testing & security assessments (1999–2000)
    • eToys.com — Senior Programmer High-traffic e-commerce platform (2001)
    • Andrews McMeel Universal — Web Developer Early web applications (1996–99)

Expertise

From the silicon to the org chart.

Hands-on across the stack, with the leadership scaffolding to turn it into shipped product.

01

Mobile

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • Objective-C
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter / Dart
  • UIKit
  • CoreData
  • MapKit
02

AI / ML

  • LLM Integration
  • AI Agents
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Python
  • Generative AI Architecture
03

Backend

  • Python
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • Ruby on Rails
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • REST
  • GraphQL
04

Architecture

  • MVVM
  • Clean Architecture
  • Offline-First
  • Microservices
  • Event-Driven
05

DevOps

  • CI/CD
  • XCTest
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Fastlane
  • Automated Testing
06

Leadership

  • Engineering Management (80+ ICs)
  • Technical Strategy
  • Team Building
  • Mentorship

Writing

Notes on AI-driven engineering.

What actually changes when you put models in the critical path — from the people who have to ship it.

All writing

Contact

Let's build something worth shipping.

Engineering leadership, AI-driven development, or just a conversation about where this is all headed — I'm always up for the right one.

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