About me
SARAVANAN V
Technical Lead
Mobile Developer (iOS, React Native, Flutter)
About Myself

13+ years of experience in the IT industry as an engineer majorly into mobile space having worked with different kinds of apps across several domains like E-learning, Medical, Health-Care, Games, Productivity, Utilities, Enterprise, Social, Entertainment.

Experience in handling iOS/Android native SDK & cross-platform development tools like React Native, Flutter.

Skilled in developing consumable Rest APIs using NodeJs, MongoDB, Swift.

Experience in using/writing web technologies for mobile, which includes advance javascript, React, HTML/CSS.

I have worked extensively in teams both as an Individual Contributor while leading teams and as a standalone engineer.

Highlights
iOS Expert Mobile Developer App Architect Team Lead Individual Contributor Technical Writer Course Author
employment
Highlighted Personal Projects

Tradistory:

Tech Stack: AWS, AWS EC2, AWS RDS, AWS S3, Axios, DevOps, Docker, DynamoDB, ExpressJS, Firebase, Frappe, Git, Heroku, HTML, Javascript, Mac OS, MongoDB, NodeJS, Postman, Python, REST API, Ubuntu, VueJS 2, Web Services

This is a back-testing app for traders to run through their strategies on the historical stock price data.

- Worked as an All Hands Developer for over 2 years

- Leveraged Low-Code Framework Frappe for the frontend web app

- Architected, designed, and developed the whole backend & frontend systems

- Designed and developed REST APIs on the backend and integrated the same on the frontend/web app

- Developed the entire app (end to end)

Music discovery App

Tech Stack: AWS, AWS EC2, AWS S3, Axios, DevOps, DynamoDB, ExpressJS, Firebase, Git, Heroku, Jenkins, Mac OS, MongoDB, NodeJS, Postman, REST API, Ubuntu, Web Services, Objective C, Swift

This is a music discovery app that allows the use of multiple streaming services like Apple Music, and Spotify.

- Designed and developed a system to match songs from multiple streaming services with the utmost accuracy

- Architected, designed, and developed the whole backend & frontend systems

- Designed and developed REST APIs on the backend and integrated the same on the frontend iOS app

- Designed and implemented a push notification system on the backend & integrated the same on the frontend

Techical Lead at Photon, Chennai (March 2017 – March 2023)

Boots:

Tech Stack: Swift, Objective-C, HTML/CSS/Javascript, React Native

Top pharmacist in the UK, which serves millions of users. Other than the pharmacy, the app also serves users with different modules like shop, rewards & coupon systems.

- Designed and developed the native implementation of Shop & Inbox modules

- Lead a team of 3+ developers, literally running their offshore counterpart

- Worked on most of the modules for the flagship iOS app

- Automated some of the service integration codes

- Migrated some parts of the codebase from legacy Objective-C to Swift

Walgreens:

Tech Stack: Swift, Objective-C, React Native

Top pharmacist in the US, which serves millions of users. Other than the pharmacy, the app also serves users with different modules like shop, photos, rewards & coupon systems.

- Designed and developed an in-app chat module

- Implemented/ Integrated Apple-Pay payments

- Worked on most of the modules throughout the flagship iOS app

- Designed and implemented architectural level changes impacting their flag iOS app

- Migrated some parts of the codebase from legacy Objective-C to Swift

- Lead the teams of 5+ developers, for modules: MDLive (doctor consultation module) and Widgets (Home screen widgets module)

Senior Software Engineer at Pramati, Chennai (December 2014 – March 2017)

Unity:

This app helps to setup an automated water irrigation controller, for which he worked in developing the iOS app.

- Designed and developed the entire application from scratch

- Lead a team of 3+ developers with individual contribution

- Implemented all the complex animations & interactions throughout the app

- Responsible for delivering the entire project from the offshore

Fontli:

Social network for typography enthusiasts.

- Designed and developed the complete revamp of the existing app

- Migrated majority of the code base to Swift

Local Briks:

Description: E-commerce app, for which he worked in developing the iOS app.

- Designed and developed the entire UI/UX

- Designed & implemented the service layer of the app

Freelancing, December 2013 - November 2014

Parry Fly:

Game application with a different gameplay.

- Responsible for developing the entire application.

Vanish Text:

Chat application with public cryptography implementation.

- Responsible for developing the entire application.

OSCE: | Pocket Clinical: | Emergency Medicine: | MedWords:

Medical apps that helps students in learning the medical related subjects.

- Responsible for developing the entire application except few embedded web pages.

Software Developer at iLink, Chennai (August 2011 - November 2013)

Prolifiq (Enterprise App):

Mobile app for connecting doctors and medical reps.

- Worked on few modules doing UI, midddle ware & service integrations.

Patient Engagement:

Mobile app that helps patients to keep track of their health metrics.

- Responsible for developing the entire application.

Software Engineer at iPort Bytes, Chennai (June 2009 - July 2011)

Cool Car Kids:

Mobile game app that contains 6 mini-games.

- Responsbile for developing 2 mini games in it.

Second Take: [It got listed in the New & Noteworthy apps in the Apple's App Store]

Card game with a different gameplay.

- Responsible for Responsible for porting iPhone app to iPad.

Zoom Catalog:

E-commerce mobile for zoomcatalog.com.

- Responsible for Responsible for porting iPhone app to iPad.

FCHorgen:

Mobile app for viewing information related to Swiss football club.

- Responsible for developing the entire application.

Personal Projects

Post Maker:

Mobile app for creating posters with easy to use interface.

- Responsible for developing the entire application with Ionic Framework.

Musicly:

Open-Sourced clone of Noisli's core functionality.

- Responsible for developing the entire application with React Native Framework.

Course on FRP with Swift:

Functional Reactive Programming with Swift course for beginners.

- Designed and developed the whole curriculum and presentations of the entire course

- Got to learn to teach by creating a course on a content that's hard to consume for many students

- Recorded, Edited, marketed the course all by myself exclusively on Udemy

- My first ever and only course as of now on the marketplace

Qualifications
PSY Engineering College, (2006-2010)
Madurai, Anna University
Score: 70%
Degree: B.E.(CSE)
Swift, Objective C, iOS
Cross-Platform (React Native, Flutter, Ionic)
Backend: NodeJs, MongoDB, DynamoDB, AWS