Soaurabh Kakkar

IOS Engineer

Delhi, India11 yrs experience

Key Highlights

10+ years of experience in mobile app development.
Co-inventor of a security algorithm on Google Patents.
Active speaker at global tech conferences.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Development expert with a focus on B2C applications in the Real Estate and Media sectors.

Contact

soaurabh.kakkar@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Mobile DevelopmentArchitecture

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsApp lifecycle managementApp performanceArchitecting consumer appsArchitectural practicesBuild-time optimizationCC++CocoaCocoa TouchCode-review guidelinesCollaborationComponent designCore Data

About

Soaurabh is an engineering leader, mentor, speaker, and mobile expert. He brings 10+ years of experience in building & leading large-scale consumer apps. He has an experimental mindset to co-invent a security algorithm that can be read on Google Patents. He is also an active speaker and instructor at worldwide conferences & events like try! Swift World, try! Swift NYC, try! Swift Tokyo, and Swift India Conference. Technical & Leadership Skills Include - Languages & Frameworks: Objective-C, Swift, Kotlin, Java, GraphQL, JavaScript, C/C++, UIKit, SwiftUI, Android SDK, React Native, Core Data, Room, Retrofit, Glide, Nuke, AVFoundation, CocoaPods, SwiftPM, Bitrise, Firebase etc. Leadership Principles & Books: Extreme Ownership, Radical Candor, Start with Why, Leaders Eat Last, Good to Great.

Experience

11 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Opendoor

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Remote

Key Responsibilities & Initiatives:
Technically lead a team of mobile feature & infra engineers.
Lead mobile platform performance & cost optimisation initiatives.
Lead initiatives to improve observability, monitoring & reporting.
Platform stability initiatives to improve build & deploy pipelines.
Helped automating end-to-end app/play store release process.
Architecting a new consumer app to buy & sell properties online.
Standardising architectural practices & code-review guidelines.
Architecture reviews, approach brainstorming, project roadmap, system design, stakeholder alignment, and technical mentoring.

Mobile platform performanceCost optimizationObservabilityMonitoringReportingArchitecting consumer apps+3

Compass

Mobile Architect(SSE)

Apr 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs · India · Remote

Key Responsibilities & Initiatives:
Architecting a collaborative experience for agents to manage contacts.
System design for importing contacts from the device’s phonebook.
Lead efforts on UI automation pipeline setup for a multi-module app.
Improve application warm & cold launch time experience.
Capture performance numbers/trends for the app’s critical workflows.
Lead development of in-app group text messaging capability.
Lead improvements in project scaffolding tool to add test coverage.
Standardizing architectural practices & code-review guidelines.
Hosting & speaking in technical sessions, lunch & learns
Code reviews, feature brainstorming, stakeholder alignment, and mentoring the dev team.

System designUI automationPerformance optimizationIn-app messagingArchitectural practicesMobile Development+1

Tokopedia

Principal Engineer iOS

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

Key Responsibilities & Initiatives:
Lead efforts on core initiatives like app performance, size optimization, build-time optimization, and building reusable components.
Defining guidelines on application architecture for better testability.
Standardising CI process for cost optimization, code review guidelines, and defining development workflow with githooks and bots.
Code reviews, approach brainstorming, mentoring developers, and sharing sessions.

App performanceSize optimizationBuild-time optimizationReusable componentsMobile DevelopmentArchitecture

Times internet

iOS Developer, Manager II

Jan 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

Key Responsibilities & Initiatives:
Work on video streaming app(MX Player) from scratch and contribution to features - HLS streaming, video precaching, watchlist, watch history and video card layout, and more.
Collaborate & work with product, design, and backend stakeholders.

Video streamingFeature developmentCollaborationMobile Development

Monotype solutions india

Software Engineer II

Jul 2014 – Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

Key Responsibilities & Initiatives:
Work on the complete app life cycle from ideation, design, development, and deployment.
Work on features like font security, local data store, PubNub integration, application updates, application logging, and font activation.
Writing unit and functional test cases to ensure code quality.
Collaborate with stakeholders for requirements and user experience.

App lifecycle managementFeature developmentUnit testingMobile Development