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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Investigated open source libraries for face recognition. Built a library along with a proof of concept application for iOS using FaceNet framework. This framework is being used and integrated in multiple research products for face recognition functionality.• Being the first iOS dev in the team, was able to bring the iOS app up-to the speed with respect to Android by implementing multiple features like OAuth, GeoFencing and Networking APIs integration within a few weeks.• Helped the team setup continuous development and integration for iOS applications.• Led a team, as subject matter expert, to create a strong foundation for the new iOS product.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Innovate, define and develop solutions based on industry requirements using emerging technologies along with Cisco security, hardware, and software products.• Built mobile app integrating orchestrator, Cisco’s Common Identity (CI) APIs with Webex bots which can be used as a CRM tool.• Built a virtual classroom web app on React JS using Webex Teams APIs and orchestrator backend which helps school teachers to schedule and conduct online classes.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Designed, built and deployed mobile app using Webex Teams SDK which ran a successful EFT at one of the Optum healthcare center.• Collaborated with UX and backend development teams to analyze potential system solutions and built multiple prototype applications which were demonstrated at global events like Cisco Live US and HIMSS. Most of these applications were later approved for the production phase.• Led the team to build a prototype iOS app using Cisco’s CMX SDK for location tracking which was demonstrated at Cisco Live Barcelona and received astonishing customer feedback.• Helped team members with Java backend API development, code review and quality assurance which increased product quality and helped to finish development within defined timeline.• Helped the team with designing architecture and backend API integration to build a web application using Epic EMR and Cisco collaboration APIs. It received very positive feedback from EFT clients and moved the product in release phase.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

• Led iOS development team (Onsite and Offshore) to build and ship iPhone & iPad healthcare applications, digitizing enhanced healthcare experience from appointment scheduling, patient check-in to insurance and payment flow. These applications are being used by multiple healthcare providers and thousands of patients. And has ratings of 4.6 out of 5.• Worked with product management team in sprint planning which includes requirement gathering, task breakdown of user stories, estimating the required effort, assigning task to individual developer, which helped providing the technical approach to complete a sprint and finishing user stories within defined timeline.• Collaborated with a cross-functional team of quality assurance, backend development and UI/UX engineers to create the application system architecture, database design, web services signatures, and class diagrams to build and deploy mobile applications within few months, which gave a couple of months head start for planning the next product release.• Interfaced with product management and UX engineers from sprint zero in preparation of wireframes, designing storyboards, ensuring the wireframes/designs created by the engineers are following mobile UI guidelines. It also helped in determining technical challenges in advance which eventually resulted in fast paced development.• To reduce app build time and to increase consistent, robust build releases, integrated fastlane CI tool, enforced git flow model and implemented consistent peer code review. • Identified and integrated third party frameworks like Object Mapper, Eureka, Alamofire, SwiftJSON to increase app performance and reduce development efforts.• Worked with technologies such as iOS, Swift, Objective C, JSON Schema, AWS Cognito, REST API etc. Also helped for any technical challenge a subordinate encountered with during the development.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

• Worked closely with Project Manager to share the load and prepared detailed weekly reports on updates to project specifications, development progress, identified conflicts and team activities to deliver the application on time.• Integrated Swift in Obj-C codebase and later migrated all codebase to Swift to keep iOS app updated with latest technology.• Worked as a part of Innovation team for Wells Fargo client and created proofs of concept on emerging technologies like Apple pay, HomeKit, iBeacon / BLE, Augmented Reality (AR), OCR scanning and Biometric authentication.• Implemented code for common business logic which can be shared among different mobile application, which reduced code redundancy and increased development speed.• Implemented video player interface and integrated DRM SDK for media streaming mobile applications which increased HLS content protection.• Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for creating well-organized project plans.• Developed native, hybrid and enterprise iOS applications across various domains like Healthcare, Live Media, e-commerce, Finance, Games, Retail, etc.• Led a team of 7 developers to build the video conference Mac OS application on SIP calling using client SDK.• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in iOS development and working to improve overall team performance.

Cary, North Carolina, Us

• Had been one of the pioneer engineers for the organization and worked on various mobile applications and games that helped the organization to grow exponentially.• Consulted regularly with clients, taking full responsibility from requirements gathering to write highly maintainable code and following all quality processes to ensure effective and efficient deliverables. Uploaded iOS app using Apple guided IPA distribution process. Resulted bringing in more business for the organization.

• Worked as software developer for web design, implementation and deployment of applications.• Ensured technical performance and worked on bugs to provide efficient deliveries.

Pg Diploma, Wireless Mobile Computing

Bachelors Of Engineering, Electronics And Communication