Sep 2023 – Mar 2024 · 6 mos · India

• Personal Break - Investing on self.
• Spending time with family.
• Gardening and exercising.
• Completed course: Software Architecture & Technology of Large Scale Systems.
• Reading books
• On going course: reactJS
• Medium Quick-start series continued
• https://medium.com/search?q=Quick-start+Ankit+Kumar+Gupta

Dec 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · India

• Worked as an Architect with responsibilities encompassing the construction of an integrated platform aimed at standardizing warehouse operations. Additionally, took charge of developing applications for appointment scheduling, yard management, gate operations, and depots. Led the delivery of integrated solutions in collaboration with other applications within the same domain.

Apr 2021 – Dec 2021 · 8 mos

• Building the multi-brand application on iOS for all Expedia brands. (Expedia, Travelocity, CheapTickets, Orbitz, Wotif etc.)
• Worked as an iOS lead for commerce team and extended to backend.
• Taken several initiatives for improving delivery quality, processes, mentor engineers.
• Have been on the forefront for the initiatives that are running across the organisation and bring the knowledge to the team.
• Continuous collaboration with product/design teams for quality product results.
• Solving problems that help across the stack (iOS/Android/Services).
• platform configuration system (backend) - platform to enable onboarding of a partner down from months to minutes.
• experience graphQL API’s (frontend/backend) - contribution in schema design/api’s on backend / integration in the frontend. lead a major migration from REST to graphQL API’s on frontend.
• server driven sort and filter (frontend/backend) - Ideated and developed a common configurable sort and filter for using across line of business.
• analytics platform migration (frontend) - built the foundational design for the analytics platform initiative for iOS.

Apr 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs

Sep 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Managed and led a team of over ten iOS developers to successfully deliver full applications, including Wynk Music and Airtel TV iOS apps
• Owned the development and delivery process, coordination with Product, User Experience, and other teams.
• Demonstrated expertise in the full lifecycle of the product, overseeing sprint deliveries, app releases, and driving a tech-driven roadmap for iOS.
• Contributed to the coding process, undertaking tasks such as architecting, designing, developing, and reviewing code to maintain high standards of quality.
• Involved and contributed to many core features on the app - playlist / likes / sharing / caching / DRM protection / HLS / Downloading / Network adaptivity / Rich Notifications / 3D Touch / Widget and many more.
• A full fledge online and offline support with database, having over 12000+ concurrent users with maintaining 99.7+% crash free.
• Received recognition for re-architecting and delivering the app in a time-sensitive event.

Mar 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon, India

Jan 2013 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

• Extensive experience in training developers on iOS, designing application architecture, and project time estimation. Recognised as a star performer in iOS development, known for expertise across projects and as a go-to person for JavaScript.
• eReading platform - used for creating multiple applications for many authors also supports addition of personalised feature in their app.
• training/teaching platform - A simple yet revolutionary Learning Management System that helps in assessing, assigning training, monitoring.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2012 · 5 mos · Noida Area, India

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Noida Area, India