Kathan Lunagariya

IOS Engineer

Rajkot, Gujarat, India3 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Twice winner of Apple's Swift Student Challenge
  • Four iOS apps published on the App Store
  • Expert in enhancing user engagement through innovative features
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Applications Developer with a strong focus on user experience and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ios Development

Other Skills

UI DesignSnapshot TestingPerformance OptimizationUser EngagementVideo Playback OptimizationIn-App PurchasesMedia ManagementUser Experience DesignPerformance TuningBackground ExecutionData SyncingMachine LearningPython (Programming Language)

About

Experienced iOS Developer recognized for winning the 'Swift Student Challenge' twice by Apple & having 4 iOS apps(Instant-Invites, Computer Networks, Fonta & IP Calculations) on the App Store. • Ideate • Craft • Develop • Elevate Curious about tech + psychology.

Experience

Blinkit

iOS Developer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Drove the implementation of iOS 26 Liquid Glass across the app, owning design, development, and day-one launch on public release; the app earned App Store feature including 'Gorgeous New Designs' and 'Our Favourites'.
  • Developed end-to-end festive features including Valentine's Day toggle, IPL Playoffs Spin-The-Wheel, enhancing user engagement and seasonal personalization.
  • Redesigned the stepper to align with tvOS styling interaction across the application.
  • Collaborated with an intern to introduce snapshot testing for bottom sheets & reusable views, enabling early detection of UI regressions prior to production.
  • Built a robust mechanism for auto-updating local assets dynamically based on theme changes, enhancing adaptability and reducing manual maintenance.
  • Additional contributions: Scroll performance enhancement, PR Reviews, taking Interviews, Bug fixes, Internal knowledge-sharing session on using async/await in unit testing, Eternal iOS ketchup speaker: ‘AI in the Dev Loop: Supercharging iOS at Blinkit’.
iOS DevelopmentUI DesignSnapshot TestingPerformance Optimization

Kwikpic

2 roles

iOS Developer

Promoted

Feb 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Full ownership of the iOS app ✪ App Store ranked Top 15 - Photo & Video
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Revamped video loading, achieved a remarkable 45% boost in speed for smoother playback.
  • Combined with App Store Server notifications support; added auto-renewable subscriptions for In-App purchases.
  • Redesigned the entire ongoing upload media management system, enhancing scalability.
  • Improved scroll performance, detected memory leaks and reduced over 90% of memory consumption for High-Resolution images.
  • Crafted a sleek Share Extension that effortlessly empowers users to upload images to Kwikpic from any media app.
  • Optimized the app's disk storage and worked with Geo Tagging, EXIF data of an image.
  • Made the entire app compatible with iPads and built a custom dark mode.
  • Seamless video players switching integration between YouTube and locally uploaded videos.
  • Worked on unit testing to ship the build with confidence.
  • Bug fixes and new features implementation.
iOS DevelopmentVideo Playback OptimizationIn-App PurchasesMedia Management

iOS Developer

Jul 2022Oct 2022 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • Constructed automated pictures download & compiled the workflow of uploading multiple videos to the server in binary chunks, all along with background execution support.
  • Reduced app crash rate including detecting & eliminating race conditions.
  • Worked on consistent offline data syncing, image caching & prefetching.
  • Bug fixes & new feature implementation.
iOS DevelopmentBackground ExecutionData Syncing

Education

Darshan University

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2019Jan 2023

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