Rithesh Rao — Mobile Engineer

As a Mobile Architect and Technical Leader with 15 years of experience, I specialize in delivering scalable, high-performance mobile architectures across iOS, Android, and hybrid platforms. I am an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, which allows me to design cloud-based mobile systems that enhance reliability and efficiency. Known for my bias for action and ability to drive results, I lead cross-functional teams in developing innovative, user-centric applications. My technical leadership focuses on mentoring engineers, fostering collaboration, and solving complex challenges while ensuring that architectural decisions are aligned with both business objectives and the need for rapid, high-quality delivery. Architectural & Leadership Skills - Mobile Architecture & Design: Expertise in designing and architecting scalable mobile systems using patterns like MVC, MVVM, and Viper across iOS and Android platforms. - Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead teams through the design and development of large-scale mobile solutions, guiding architectural decisions and ensuring the adoption of industry best practices. - Mentoring & Team Building: A strong advocate for mentorship, I actively guide teams of engineers, helping them grow technically and fostering a culture of collaboration and learning. - Cross-functional Collaboration: Skilled at working closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders to ensure that architectural designs meet user needs, business objectives, and technical requirements. - Mobile Performance Optimization: Strong focus on optimizing mobile app performance, reducing latency, and enhancing system scalability through dynamic architectural solutions. Technical Skills Mobile Platforms - Expert in iOS development using Swift, Objective C, SwiftUI. Android development using Kotlin, Java, Jetpack Compose, iOS SDK, Android SDK and hybrid framework React Native. - Frameworks & Libraries: Proficient in React Native, UIKit, Swift Package Manager, fastlane, Cocoapods, WebKit, AVKit, Dagger. - Cloud Services: AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, proficient with S3, Lambda, EC2, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, building Rest APIs, Experience with Azure and GCP. - Mobile Development Tools: Xcode, Android Studio, Firebase, Amplify, Crashlytics, Git, CI/CD, App Telemetry, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Debugging, BLE, Geolocation, Push Notifications, Universal Links. - Hybrid Mobile Apps: Experience with React Native, Flutter/Dart, and Apache Cordova.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Architect with expertise in E-commerce and Fintech industries.

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Experience: 14 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Mobile Architecture
Technical Leadership
Mobile Development
Ios Development

Career Highlights

15 years of experience in mobile architecture.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Work Experience

Amazon

Software Engineer (5 yrs 11 mos)

Tapzo

Technical Lead (1 yr 4 mos)

Senior iOS Developer (11 mos)

Sri Veda EmSys Solutions Pvt Ltd for Client Dejaview Concepts Inc.

iOS Tech Lead (1 yr 4 mos)

Senior iOS App Developer (8 mos)

mPortal

iOS App Developer (4 yrs 5 mos)

Education

Engineer’s Degree at Visvesvaraya Technological University

Rithesh Rao

Mobile Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in mobile architecture.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
Proven track record in mentoring and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Architect with expertise in E-commerce and Fintech industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipMobile DevelopmentIos Development

Other Skills

React NativeWebKitMentoringPerformance OptimizationMobile InfrastructurePayments IntegrationCI/CD PipelineMobile PaymentsAnalytics IntegrationCI/CD InfrastructureBluetooth TechnologyLocation MonitoringVOIP IntegrationChat Feature DevelopmentCore Animation

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Experience

14 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amazon

Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Jul 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

Architected the mobile rendering stack for the Amazon Shopping app, playing a pivotal role in enhancing performance, scalability, and user experience across platforms.
Led the technical design and delivery of cross-platform solutions using React Native and WebKit, ensuring architectural decisions aligned with the company's long-term mobile strategy.
Mentored and coached a team of engineers, guiding them in mobile architecture best practices and building scalable, secure, and high-performance mobile systems.
Drove collaborative problem-solving across teams, ensuring seamless integration of mobile technologies with broader Amazon services.
Designed and implemented dynamic library loading, significantly improving app startup time and reducing latency by 50ms.
Acted as a technical leader, advising senior leadership on architectural decisions while aligning technical execution with business goals.

Mobile ArchitectureReact NativeWebKitMentoringPerformance OptimizationTechnical Leadership

Tapzo

2 roles

Technical Lead

Apr 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Architected the mobile infrastructure, including payments and integrations, ensuring the system was scalable and resilient to handle increased traffic and transactions.
Led cross-functional teams in delivering complex mobile solutions, ensuring collaboration across product, design, and engineering teams.
Mentored and guided engineers in adopting modern mobile architecture principles, focusing on clean code and scalable design patterns like MVVM and Viper.
Collaborated with analytics teams to ensure that architectural decisions improved app adoption and customer retention, driving the business forward.
Played a key role in improving the CI/CD pipeline, which reduced manual processes by 90%, allowing the team to focus on high-impact work.

Mobile InfrastructurePayments IntegrationMentoringCI/CD PipelineTechnical LeadershipMobile Architecture

Senior iOS Developer

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Architected scalable core components like payments infra, monitoring which were the foundation of building many features feature of the app like Mobile Recharge, DTH, Pay postpaid mobile, electricity & other utility bills, Book cabs/taxis & autos, Order food, Find best offers, deals & coupons
Architected the mobile native payment system to use 3P libraries to enable mobile payments which drove the success rate by 50% and also reduced the cost of the payment infra by 40%
Collaborated with analytics team and championed iOS app adoption rate, increased adoption by 12% by integrating app with MoEngage and Segment IOS SDK's
Designed CI/CD infrastructure which reduced operation burden of the team by 90% and delivery mobile app and SDK artifact App Store and other partners seamlessly
Owned the SDK's integration and collaborated tech and product team of top banking partners like Indusind, SBI, ICICI and integrated the SDK. This drive Tapzo bussiness by 40%

Mobile PaymentsAnalytics IntegrationCI/CD InfrastructureMobile DevelopmentiOS Development

Sri veda emsys solutions pvt ltd for client dejaview concepts inc.

2 roles

iOS Tech Lead

Jan 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Led the design, development and delivery of white labeled iOS app named Paparazzi Pass, Paparazzi Golf and Paparazzi Revelostoke out of single codebase
Used location monitoring/GPS, region monitoring, Bluetooth and iBeacon technology to capture outdoor experience of user at skiing, golf and recreational rides
Enabled app to communicate with IOT devices via BLE/Bluetooth stack to capture user movement

iOS DevelopmentBluetooth TechnologyLocation MonitoringMobile Architecture

Senior iOS App Developer

Apr 2014 – Dec 2014 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Led the design, development and delivery of white labeled iOS app named Paparazzi Pass, Paparazzi Golf and Paparazzi Revelostoke out of single codebase
Used location monitoring/GPS, region monitoring, Bluetooth and iBeacon technology to capture outdoor experience of user at skiing, golf and recreational rides
Enabled app to communicate with IOT devices via BLE/Bluetooth stack to capture user movement

iOS DevelopmentBluetooth TechnologyLocation MonitoringMobile Architecture

Mportal

iOS App Developer

Nov 2009 – Apr 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bangaon Area, India

Delivered VOIP library integration on iOS app which enabled Xfinity customer make VOIP calls
Part of iOS development team who built chat feature with in the Xfinity iOS app
Worked across multiple module in the Xfinity mobile app like Address Book sync, My Account
and etc
Xfinity Connect: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xfinity-connect/id320788270?mt=8

VOIP IntegrationChat Feature DevelopmentiOS Development