Likhit Garimella

IOS Engineer

New York City, New York, United States3 yrs 8 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Proven track record in delivering high-impact mobile features.
Significant contributions to scam prevention strategies.
Expertise in cross-functional collaboration and agile methodologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech iOS Engineer with strong expertise in mobile feature development and user engagement.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ios DevelopmentSwift

Other Skills

SwiftUIXcodeUIKitObjective-CSwift (Programming Language)FirebaseREST APIsPython (Programming Language)C (Programming Language)R (Programming Language)JavaScriptSQLJavaCombineCocoa Touch

About

iOS Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact, user-centric mobile features for large-scale Fintech platforms, including PayPal–Venmo. Proven track record of owning end-to-end feature delivery across experimentation, production rollout, quality automation, and post-launch analysis. Proficient in transaction risk flows, scam prevention, modularization initiatives, and Feed platform evolution, with measurable business impact including multi-million-dollar loss reduction and user engagement growth. Adept at cross-functional collaboration with Product, Risk, Design, Analytics, and Backend teams, and recognized multiple times for delivering high-quality, production-critical features at scale.

Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Paypal

iOS Software Engineer 2

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · New York, New York, United States · Hybrid

Took ownership within Feed 2.0 initiatives, contributing across parity work, bug fixes, HLD creation, testing strategies, analytics integration, release packaging, and early observability efforts, including learning and building Datadog dashboards with senior engineers.
Supported StepUp (OTP) production readiness, resolving last-minute pre-production issues, fixing critical bugs, and adding UI automation tests to ensure a stable and successful launch.
Authored and owned CashOut modularization road-mapping artifacts, including High Level Design (HLD), Testing Strategy, Dependency Mapping, and Decision Logs; acted as a Point of Contact (POC) across squads.
Played a key role in Split P2P Discoverability improvements, enhancing entry points and multi-select search flows; experiment results showed a 6.7% increase in active Split P2P users, 4.9% increase in split payments per user, and 3.4% growth in repeat P2P usage, without negatively impacting core P2P flows.
Drove Compose module quality sprint initiatives, expanding UI automation coverage and improving test reliability, enabling faster feedback and higher confidence during releases aligned with modularization goals.
Implemented and validated feature-flagged experiments with staged ramps (1%→10%→100%), supporting safe production rollouts and data-driven decision-making across risk-sensitive payment flows.
Contributed to Scam Decline & Warning Messaging flows, collaborating closely with Product, Risk, Fraud, Design, Analytics, and Legal teams; changes contributed to an $8M annual net loss reduction and served as a regulatory proof point for Venmo’s scam-prevention strategy.
Delivered Transaction Decline Messaging improvements, replacing generic error messages with context-aware, actionable messaging based on decline type, improving user recovery from failed payments; experiment results showed a 6.95% lift in subsequent approved transactions for issuer declines and were rolled out to 100% of users.

SwiftUIXcodeiOS DevelopmentUIKitObjective-CSwift (Programming Language)+1

Rutgers university–new brunswick

3 roles

Web Developer

Oct 2023 – Apr 2024 · 6 mos · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States · On-site

Worked with Prof. Tomasz Imielinski on his blog website.

Teaching Assistant — Data Science

Sep 2023 – Jan 2024 · 4 mos · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States · On-site

Worked with Prof. Tomasz Imielinski on CS 142: Data 101 – Introduction to Data Science.
Responsibilities include recitations and grading.

Teaching Assistant — Machine Learning

Sep 2023 – Jan 2024 · 4 mos · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States · On-site

Worked with Prof. Karl Stratos on CS 461: Machine Learning Principles.
Responsibilities include grading and reviewing.

Accenture in india

iOS Engineer

Mar 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Chennai · Remote

Originated a user-friendly, visually engaging menu-sharing platform enabling seamless user-to-user and restaurant-to-user interactions, with geo-based discovery within a selected distance radius to enhance local restaurant visibility.
Spearheaded full-stack iOS development of “Menutopia” using Swift, Objective-C, Sketch, and Firebase Realtime Database; led the product from ideation and wireframing to App Store launch, achieving 8,000+ downloads in the first quarter.
Drove a 30% increase in user engagement by building interactive meal discovery, sharing, and recommendation features; increased restaurant exposure with a 20% rise in sponsored meal promotions.
Identified demand for a short-format news platform and led end-to-end development of “Buzz Shorts,” delivering concise, trending news updates with a clean, scroll-based interface optimized for speed and retention.
Designed and deployed 5 iOS applications using Swift, Figma, and Firebase, implementing scalable and modular architecture that improved navigation efficiency and user flow by 30%.
Achieved 100,000+ cumulative downloads across all apps with a 4.8 average App Store rating; streamlined real-time news delivery across 20+ national and international categories.
Led development of “SticFocus,” integrating REST APIs via Postman and optimizing backend database operations, improving app responsiveness and API performance by 20%.
Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 4 to design and implement online education and video streaming modules, reducing application loading times by 15% through performance tuning.
Designed and engineered core features for startup app “Blisslife,” implementing robust iOS functionalities and conducting extensive functional and usability testing to ensure stability.
Partnered closely with the CEO and stakeholders to align product vision with technical execution, demonstrating strong ownership, adaptability, and problem-solving in an agile startup environment.