Rahul Balimidi

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 14 years of experience in mobile app development.
Led large mobile teams in financial domain.
Award-winning UI lead for Forex trading app.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Mobile Architect with extensive experience in leading mobile development teams.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementMobile ApplicationsIos DevelopmentAndroidContinuous IntegrationUi Design

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipUnit TestingJavaEclipseJava Enterprise EditionSQLC++OracleJavaScriptAngularJSIonic FrameworkObjective-C

About

• Engineering Head/Architect with over 14 years of experience in IOS , Android and Hybrid Mobile App Development. • Strong programming skills in Swift ,Objective C , Java and Javascript. • Extensive Experience in leading large Mobile Teams. • Immense experience in financial domain with work experience across banking giants like Bank of America , Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan.

Experience

Wells fargo

Executive Director | Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Engineering ManagementMobile ApplicationsEngineering Leadership

Kotak cherry

2 roles

Head Of Engineering -Product

Promoted

Jun 2023 – Oct 2023 · 4 mos · Hybrid

Vice President

Jul 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hybrid

Mobile Engineering Manager for the Kotak Mahindra's flagship investment platform called Cherry.
Leading a team of 15 Mobile Developers .
Responsible for leading the development and Releases of Cherry IOS and Android Mobile Apps.

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Mobile Architect

Jun 2017 – Jul 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Skillsoft

Module Lead - Mobility

Nov 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hyderabad

Project Description: This is their core learning app designed for their vast number of clients to help them access learning content across a variety of topics including business, personal development, Finance and IT in various forms like e-books, audio books , videos ,summaries and courses.
Role & Responsibilities:
1) Worked on both design and development of the I OS modules which includes addition of live events, UI changes to Video Player and addition of offline saving to the videos.
2) Worked on set-up of the Continuous Integration server (Jenkins) to streamline the build and deployment process.
3) I have written the unit test cases for all the major modules to make sure future releases won’t affect the existing functionality.
4) Added the unit tests execution as a part of build process, to verify the sanity of builds before sending it to the QA.
5) Helped the QA team in their I OS environment set-up and in writing the automation test cases using Appium.

Bank of america

2 roles

IOS lead

Promoted

Nov 2013 – Nov 2015 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

Role & Responsibilities:
Worked as UI lead .
Actively participated in gathering requirements ,co-ordinated with the UI designer to get the user –friendly UI for our app.
Received Platinum award for my work on this project, which went live in July 2014. It was the first mobile app in the Forex trading space for Bank Of America.