Sep 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Aug 2018 – Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Tech lead for iOS Team

Feb 2017 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Hike’s mission is to reimagine how people connect and interact with content and services as 1 billion people come online on mobile devices that are faster and more powerful than the first set of PC's. - 100 Million users, exchange 40 Billion messages, post nearly 10 million Stories and timeline posts and do close to 5 million transactions per month. The average user spends close to 120 mins per week on the app.
• Roles and responsibilities
• Revamped the entire creation flow for stories and Timeline using RIbs architecture
• Added many critical features like mentions, location tagging, forward to chat, rich links, etc
• Improved overall video consumption experience within the app through offline caching as well as real-time HLS video streaming
• Added support for React native - micro apps to be embedded into the native Stories & Timeline experience
• Helped reduce app size by 20% through tech optimisations such as On-demand resources, web-p image resources and icon fonts.

Sep 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• The Mobscale platform helps marketers and App owners better understand their customers using deep analytics and drive more engagement and revenue through contextual and personalized communication with your users via push notifications, in-app messages, emails, or SMS notifications, and all this at scale. It helps you figure what your users are doing in your app, and helps you engage with them.
• Powered by big data and machine learning, we help create delightful experiences for every App consumer with the perfect, personalized message, delivered on the right channel, at just the right time.
• Designed architecture for analytics SDK for android

Sep 2016 – Feb 2017 · 5 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Pulse is a hyperlocal social networking app, centred around colleges. It utilizes the new-age UX and a full-screen visual experience to help consumers (primarily millennials) create & consume engaging localized content relevant to them, around them.
• Roles and responsibilities :
• Migrating code from swift 2.1 to 2.2 and finally 3
• Designed and developed universal media manager for the app that would download, cache and manage media content (images,videos etc)

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• AskMe is a consumer Internet search platform with a database of more than 6 million small and medium enterprises registered on the site. The Company services these businesses through three main verticals. AskmeBazzar which is an open e-commerce marketplace with both a national and hyperlocal delivery model. Askme Local which is a platform to discover services and deals nearby and Askme Groceries which is a hyper-local groceries business. The company also has verticals in e-wallet and finance sectors.
• Managed ASO for all 4 apps
• Managing the development of user engagement features including notifications, deep linking, app-indexing, integrating OS-level service like Google Now and Siri kit.
• Set up automation pipeline for deployment to store using Faslane and Jenkins for both android and iOS.
• Developed and optimized pipelines for user analytics tracking
• release engineering for both iOS and Android.

Nov 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India

• Moved App to use MVVM and VIPER Design architectures
• Researched and developed communication layer for real-time data using mqtt
• created smooth nonblocking UI suing pop and async display kit
• managed developer accounts for both platforms and the release cycles for iOS apps

Sep 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Kochi, Kerala, India

• MindHelix Inc. was one of the premier college startups in India.
• There I worked on apps such as
• TukTuk Meter Mobile App that went viral in 2011 and became the 5th most Tweeted Topic on Twitter on the day of launch. The app saw half a million downloads and won over six awards including the NASSCOM AppFame Awards, Intel Apps4India Awards and Best App Award by Indian Android Developer Community.
• Sentinel. an app with the vision of helping women with their security, the app got critical acclaim from the likes of Gadget Guru NDTV, iGyan and YourStory amongst others. In January 2012, MindHelix was selected to be a part of the Alchemist Accelerator. The acceleration program is run by Stanford University lecturers and is based in Silicon Valley. MindHelix was the first Indian startup to get selected for this Accelerator program.
• Picked up both Android and iOS development on the fly to develop two apps that could use location services on the platform with minimal battery drainage
• Designed and optimized architecture for both platforms.