Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · India · Remote

• Experimenting and learning about Vertical Short form content creation, processing and distribution using AI Tools, for any genre.
• Learning how the Youtube feed algorithm treats metadata to push videos to audience.
• Will publish all my learnings as free PDFs soon.

Sep 2023 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Engineering Leadership : Discovery and Personalisation Vertical, Currently heading the pod for Apple TV
• Working towards reducing app start up time and general performance of JioCinema.
• Built Ad-Monetisation SDK, JioCinema's HomeScreen Redesign and Player Redesign on Apple TV, at the intersection of Kotlin Multiplatform, Swift, SwiftUI for iOS and tvOS Platforms.
• Architecting and Coding the JioCinema for Apple Platforms like iOS, iPadOS and tvOS. I also build tech teams, mentor Devs in terms of Clean Architecture, Scalability, Best practices etc.

Oct 2022 – Sep 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Hyper Modularisation of MPL services into multiple CocoaPods / Frameworks.
• Scaling and tuning the performance of India's largest Gaming App.
• Working with Swift, React Native, Obj-C, C++, Obj-C++.

Mar 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Owned iOS eSports SDK and OneLogin SDK. Built an Industry First solution for eSports and Real money gaming in iOS from scratch, single handedly.
• First of its kind in Indian RMG Industry.
• Worked at the intersection of Swift / iOS, Unity engine and React Native.
• 1. R&D in building iOS SDK for Games built in Unity/C# using swift and Obj-C.
• 2. This SDK intends to bring Unity Engine games to MPL ecosystem and into Real Money Gaming Construct.

Oct 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Started and led iOS Vertical for GALE Advertising India
• as the first iOS Engineer in the organization and set all iOS things up. Owned the entire iOS product for 1.5 years
• iOS product achievements :
• 1. Apple #1 Top charts (Health and Fitness) - June 2021.
• 2. App got featured in Apple App store for Fitness section.
• 3. Increased app ratings from 3.7 to 4.6
• in a year.
• 4. Maintained Crash free users at 99%
• Built features like :
• 1. Product analytics, UX revamps
• 2. CI/CD,
• 3. Deeplinking and Dynamic Links
• 4. Seamless integration with major wearables like Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit
• 5. Notification service extensions.

Feb 2020 – Oct 2020 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Developed Paytm Inbox (previously Paytm Chat), A Messenger and Money Transfer SDK for iOS from scratch
• 1. Chat based SDK for Conversations, Money transfers with friends, merchants and
• beyond.
• 2. Implemented Read Receipts for messages and payments.
• 3. Crafted Automated quick replies for messages and payments.
• 4. Enhancing the social graph of an average Paytm user.
• 5. Data security and breach prevention with Hashing.

Oct 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed Medibuddy iOS from scratch.
• #6 in Apple Store for Medical
• Re-imagined and crafted the cashless healthcare on iOS from scratch in Swift, the app caters the user base of 1.8 Million.
• 1. Was responsible for complete end to end iOS application development from scratch
• 2. Several iterations of UI-UX revamps, app publishing
• 3. Establishing product analytics and customer engagement.
• 4. Ownership of significant percentage of features and enhanced them over a period of 1.5 years
• Domains : E-Commerce, Insurance, Wellness, Health Care, Fitness applications.

Oct 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr · INS Zamorin

• Combined Defence Services - 2017 Batch
• UPSC, Government of India.
• Recommended from Service Selection Board (SSB) - 12
• Trained at Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala, Kerala, India.
• Information Technology, Cyber security, Military Networks, Information Department.

Aug 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed several iOS Apps from scratch.
• 1. Shipped 2 enterprise iOS products (Job portal Apps)
• 2. From scratch iOS development, Agile development.
• 3. Swift and Objective-C, iPhone SDK, XCode
• 4. Unit scripting
• 5. UI design, UX enhancement.

Jan 2016 – Aug 2016 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed Desktop Application for MacOS, Windows and Linux.
• 1. Full stack development
• 2. MacOS Application
• 3. JavaScript, Node.js, Electron.js
• 4. Excel parsing engines.
• Data Analytics and Visualizations using D3.js