Ronak V.

Lead IOS Developer

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce expert with strong backend and mobile development skills.

Ios DevelopmentBackend Engineering

AWSAlgorithmsAndroidBashCC#C++ElasticsearchGCloudGoogle Pub/SubHTMLJavaJavaScriptLeadershipMachine Learning

Jun 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

● Sequoia-backed hotel booking platform
● Leading all of iOS from 0 -> 1 and then to $5m GMV run rate
○ Moved app from not production ready to 10,000+ downloads (and growing fast!)
○ 4.9 star rating, 141 ratings
○ Built and architected APNs solution
○ Rewrote search to take load time from 8+ seconds to ~2 seconds
○ Improved homepage load time from 4 seconds to virtually instantaneous
○ Spearheaded growth initiatives by implementing Braze and deep linking
● Rewrote backend booking flow with a message queue system using Google Pub/Sub
● Architected auth to allow users to auth via OTP via phone or email and implemented iOS and BE
● Architected and implemented booking cancellation
● Architected and implemented credit expiry system
● Helped architect explore feed and offers (discounts) platform and implemented iOS
● Managing infra on AWS/GCloud via Terraform
● Reduced booking errors to virtually 0% while managing relationship with supply partners
● Demo: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/safara-book-curated-hotels/id1594526960

iOSBackend EngineeringGoogle Pub/SubAWSGCloudTerraform+1

Dec 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Manhattan, New York, United States

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

Marketplace for direct-to-consumer apparel and footwear brands. I was working on this as a solo founder.
Built:
Spark pipeline that scraped 310 brands websites nightly
Node.JS API and backend
iOS app
Elasticsearch cluster

Node.JSElasticsearchBackend Engineering

Nov 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

Traveling- Central America + Colombia
Reading- ML, economics, psychology, game theory, bitcoin, organizational design, strategy, software, statistics, biology, chemistry, physics, biographies, autobiographies, chaos theory, marketing, distribution, finance, business, history, mathematics, law, genetics, philosophy, probability, sociology, religion, etc.