Karthik Shiva
Chennai
Summary
Passionate iOS Engineer with 6 years of experience working on large and complex codebases, leading product initiatives and sharing articles and tips on iOS development.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Video Player Engineer, IOS and TvOS
FOX
08.2023 - Current
- Develop, troubleshoot, and maintain player framework utilized by Fox applications such as Fox Sports, Fox Nation, Fox Weather, etc., ensuring optimal performance for high-profile events, including Super Bowl, MLB World Series, FIFA World Cup, and more.
- Own, monitor, and optimize Quality of Experience metrics, encompassing Video startup time, re-buffering ratio, video playback failures etc.
- Contributed to team growth by playing crucial role in recruiting and onboarding new engineers.
Senior IOS Engineer
Gojek
01.2022 - Current
- Owned, developed and maintained GoFood iOS app's entire discounting flow, handling 20M monthly orders.
- Optimized app performance and user experience by strategically reducing API calls on checkout page, saving 400K calls/day, 54 hours of user time/day, and 1.5GB of data/day, leading to a better UX.
- Led end-to-end development of multiple features: aligned with stakeholders, designed mobile ADR, finalized backend contracts and telemetry, implemented the feature with robust unit test cases, and provided regular updates to stakeholders on the progress and potential blockers.
- Revamped local storage system by improving testability and flexibility through loose coupling with UserDefaults and FileManager. Simplified development process by introducing uniform API for seamless data storage and retrieval across standard, shared, and file storage.
- Rewrote critical UI components using programmatic UI for better scalability and maintainability.
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gojek/id944875099
Technical Writer
Medium, LinkedIn
01.2022 - Current
- I love writing articles and sharing tips on iOS development. My content has earned over 70,000 views and 1,200 likes across Medium and LinkedIn.
- https://medium.com/@karthikshiva
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthik-shiva-ab5904124/
IOS Engineer
Zoho Corporation
04.2018 - 01.2022
- Contributed to Zoho CRM's mobile app, which has 80M customers, globally.
- Led the creation of the Analytics module from scratch which helps customers keep track of their KPIs, monitor dashboards & anomalies on the go.
- Developed 20+ different charts natively using custom drawing and UICollectionViewLayout subclass, to achieve the best performance while rendering large amounts of data.
- Onboarded and mentored 3 iOS engineers for the analytics module.
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zoho-crm-sales-marketing/id444908810
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College
Chennai 04.2018
Skills
- Swift
- VIPER, MVVM
- Programmatic UI
- UIKit, SwiftUI
- XCTest
- CI/CD
- Git
Timeline
Video Player Engineer, IOS and TvOS
FOX
08.2023 - Current
Senior IOS Engineer
Gojek
01.2022 - Current
Technical Writer
Medium, LinkedIn
01.2022 - Current
IOS Engineer
Zoho Corporation
04.2018 - 01.2022
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College
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