Gaurav Thummar

Mobile Engineer

Ashburn, Virginia, United States1 yr 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 18+ years in software development and mobile engineering.
  • Expert in building high-performing mobile engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in mobile platform strategy and execution.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Engineering Leader with expertise in B2C mobile application development and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile Application DevelopmentTechnical LeadershipMobile Platform StrategyEngineering Management

Other Skills

Swift (Programming Language)SwiftUIObjective-CUIKitCombineCore DataCore AnimationXCTestXCUITestREST APIsGitAgileScrumCI/CDCocoaPods

About

Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience in software development, including 7+ years leading mobile engineering teams and driving large-scale iOS and Android initiatives. Proven track record of building and mentoring high-performing teams, defining mobile platform strategy, and delivering scalable, reliable, and high-quality mobile applications. Transitioned from a strong hands-on Technical Lead background (14+ years in iOS development) into people and organizational leadership, bringing deep technical expertise combined with strategic execution. Experienced in hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and fostering inclusive, accountable, and growth-oriented engineering cultures. Skilled in aligning engineering roadmaps with business goals, partnering cross-functionally with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and QA teams to deliver performant and observable mobile solutions at scale. Strong focus on engineering excellence, architectural governance, release quality, performance optimization, and continuous improvement. Known for a thoughtful, analytical leadership style—understanding the full context of a problem before driving solutions—while balancing technical depth with organizational impact. Passionate about developing both people and platforms, raising the bar for mobile quality, reliability, and developer experience across teams.

Experience

1 yr 6 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 6 mos
Current Experience

Infosys

Senior Manager Mobile Engineering

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Ashburn, Virginia, United States · Remote

Swift (Programming Language)SwiftUIObjective-CUIKitCombineCore Data+29

Stellar elements

Senior Manager, Mobile Engineering

Oct 2021Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Dallas, Texas, United States · Remote

  • ● Lead and mentor multiple mobile platform engineering teams across iOS and Android, building strong technical leadership and a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
  • ● Define and drive a long-term mobile platform strategy, balancing near-term product delivery with foundational investments in performance, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
  • ● Set clear direction and expectations across teams, aligning mobile architecture and execution with company-wide product, design, infrastructure, and data strategies.
  • ● Champion mobile performance, reliability, and observability by establishing standards for app health monitoring, user experience metrics, crash reporting, and production insights at scale.
  • ● Partner closely with Product, Design, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to navigate cross-functional tradeoffs and ensure cohesive, scalable mobile foundations.
  • ● Own people leadership responsibilities including hiring, onboarding, performance management, coaching, succession planning, and career development for engineers, senior ICs, and managers.
  • ● Foster an inclusive, high-performing environment that prioritizes diversity, collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence.
  • ● Provide technical guidance and architectural oversight for large shared mobile codebases, reusable libraries, and platform components supporting iOS and Android applications.
  • ● Establish and evolve best practices around mobile architecture, testing strategy, release quality, and proactive technical debt management.
  • ● Maintain technical credibility through design reviews, code reviews, and advisory participation across the mobile SDLC.
  • ● Identify cross-team dependencies and platform risks early, driving alignment and resolution while escalating strategically when needed.
  • ● Build a strong bench of mobile leadership by supporting growth paths for senior engineers and emerging engineering managers.
Mobile ApplicationsOver-the-Top Content (OTT)Swift (Programming Language)tvOSMaciOS+22

The home depot canada

Manager, Mobile Engineering (iOS)

May 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area · On-site

  • ● Lead and support two high-performing native mobile teams (iOS and Android), creating a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across rewards and benefits experiences.
  • ● Hire, mentor, and develop mobile engineers at all levels, providing regular coaching, feedback, and career guidance while growing future technical and people leaders.
  • ● Guide teams in delivering customer-facing mobile experiences for earning, viewing, and redeeming rewards, ensuring alignment with product strategy, design vision, and business outcomes.
  • ● Partner closely with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, Quality Engineers, and Analysts to translate product vision into simple, engaging, and high-quality mobile experiences.
  • ● Provide hands-on technical leadership in Swift and Kotlin, reviewing code, setting standards, and ensuring adherence to mobile engineering best practices, design guidelines, and language idioms.
  • ● Own and drive delivery of major mobile components and platform capabilities in collaboration with senior engineers and architects
  • ● Champion Agile ways of working by actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery
  • ● Act as a strong advocate for the mobile platform across the organization, promoting consistency, reuse, and platform excellence
  • ● Foster a learning culture by staying current with modern mobile technologies (Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, third-party libraries) and encouraging experimentation and knowledge sharing.
  • ● Identify technical risks and delivery challenges early, working with teams to remove blockers and drive creative, sustainable solutions
  • ● Encourage collaboration beyond immediate teams by engaging with Android, API, Web, and backend partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences
  • ● Promote continuous improvement by sharing best practices, improving development processes, and elevating engineering quality across sprint teams
Objective-CMobile ApplicationsArchitectureE-CommerceSwift (Programming Language)Mac+24

Infosys

Lead Consultant - Technology Lead

Oct 2018May 2019 · 7 mos · Sudbury, Ontario, Canada · On-site

  • iOS mobile application development and delivery.
  • Leading the work of other small groups engineers, including offshore associates, for assigned
  • Engineering projects by providing pertinent documents, direction, and examples, identifying shortand
  • long- term solutions and timeline, reviewing and approving proposed solutions.
  • Leading team for back end development.
  • Project management and execution, client communication and co-ordination.
  • Design prototype for the iOS Application.
  • Working with GITHUB (VSTS for source control and Version Control).
  • Continuously focused on providing an excellent user experience via clean, maintainable, performant
  • code.
  • Decide approach to development, code review, testing, documentation and code structure in a team
  • environment.
  • Professional, personable, and flexible while working to achieve objectives.
  • Building team spirit through motivation by giving independent responsibilities to team members.
  • Work with team for critical issue and use the problem-solving techniques.
  • Working with hybrid Mobile application development using IONIC framework
  • (HTML/CSS/Typescript/Javascript/Angular).
  • Manage multiple small development teams working on different projects and/or deliverables.
  • Environment: Swift, Objective-C, Ionic framework, XCode, MAC OS, AWS and AZURE API Integration
Team LeadershipCascading Style Sheets (CSS)ArchitectureMaciOSHTML+11

Tata consultancy services

Assistance Consultant

Jun 2015Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Working in Development Team to implement Apps using Cocoa framework and Live Audio/Video
  • streaming, Web interface, UI development, In-App Purchase, Push Notification, iCloud Integration,
  • Database Integration, Social media Integration, Mapkit, Location Manager Service, Calendar, Eventkit,
  • Addressbook, iAD, Airprint, Airdrop, Google analytics.
  • Worked with a variety of issues involving memory leakage, root cause analysis, User interface.
  • Working with GITHUB (Pivotal Tracker for source control) and SVN, documentation, development
  • binary Release, build package in software development life cycle process. Upload application on app
  • store.
  • Leading the discovery phase of medium to large projects to come up with high level design by
  • partnering with the product management, design, project management, business and user experience
  • teams.
  • Engaging support teams to assist in the resolution of issues, formulating an action plan, directing
  • actions as designated in the plan, performs root cause analysis to prevent future occurrence of issues,
  • and completing online documentation.
  • Training management and co-ordination for iPhone application development.Driving the execution of
  • multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs, developing and
  • communicating business plans and priorities, removing barriers and obstacles that impact
  • performance, providing resources, identifying performance standards, and demonstrating adaptability
  • and supporting continuous learning.
  • iOS Software Engineer working with iOS SDK, Objective-C, Swift, Cocoa Touch, UIKit, XCode,
  • Interface Builder, Instruments, and Git on a daily basis.
  • Strong self-learner with a desire to stay highly informed on best practices and latest developments to
  • Apple’s iOS mobile platform.
  • Environment: iPhone SDK, XCode, Coredata, GCD, Objective-C, Swift, iOS, Mac OS X, iPhone Simulator,
  • Cocoa Touch, NSXML Parser, JSON, and Instruments.
Objective-CTeam LeadershipMobile ApplicationsArchitectureSwift (Programming Language)Mac+7

V2 tech ventures private limited.

Lead Software Engineer

Feb 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • Make three different apps with different feature and different UI according to client requirement.
  • Lead developer contributing to the development of the iOS application through the full development
  • lifecycle using Objective-C released on the App store.
  • Maintaining the Product and fixing the bugs.
  • Do the enhancements to the existing product.
  • Developed Facebook and Google Plus integration for the application.
  • Code deployment, Use pivotal tracker for maintain track of project development through story and use
  • GitHub for maintain source.
  • Helped to generate mobile-friendly versions of existing websites, developed and debugged via XCode
  • and Instruments.
  • Managed full application configuration and successfully submitted to Apple App Store.
  • Environment: Objective-C, XCode, Mac OS, iOS
Objective-CTeam LeadershipMobile ApplicationsArchitectureSwift (Programming Language)Mac+7

Indianic infotech limited

Senior Mobile Application Developer

Aug 2010Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

  • Project planning, execution and liasioning with clients, and authorities.
  • Reporting SA Team on day-to-day basis about progress of new feature.
  • Code deployment, testing, bug fixing and maintenance.
  • Responsibilities included working in and facilitating the agile project, developing software, unit testing
  • with Test-Driven Development methodologies, automation and build systems.
  • Gathered and specified requirements through various client sessions addressing various business
  • needs.
  • Worked closely with management to shape the direction of the app.
  • iOS developer contributing to various mobile development projects involving iOS (iPhone and iPad)
  • applications.
  • Tested applications on device simulators and actual devices to fine-tune products.
  • Environment: Objective-C, XCode, Mac OS, iOS
Objective-CMobile ApplicationsMaciOSiOS DevelopmentiPhone Application Development+3

Bhaskaracharya institute for space applications and geo-informatics

Software Developer

Jul 2007Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India · On-site

  • Managing the work log and following the schedule to ensure completion of projects before deadline.
  • Work various development teams to complete the design and development on various features and
  • refactoring activities during sprints of the agile development process.
  • Experience in documenting requirements, design, program specification and test cases using Open-
  • Office tools including Word.
  • Work on every project phrase, from concept creation to deployment.
  • Code deployment, testing, bug fixing and maintenance.
  • Environment: ASP.Net (C#, VB), Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, VC++
.NET FrameworkMS VC++SQLVisual C++ASP.NETGeographic Information Systems (GIS)

Education

Saurashtra University, Rajkot

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Nirma University, Ahmedabad

Diploma of Education — Computer Engineering

Aug 2001Dec 2003

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