Chethan Gowda

1. LIBRE3 App

Client: Abbott – August 2022 – Current

Location: Frisco, Texas

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/freestyle-libre-3-us/id1524572429

Responsibilities

- Designed, Developed, Maintained the LIBRE 3 glucose monitoring app using swift, SwiftUI and Combine Frameworks

- Improved the stability of the app bugged with race conditions, spaghetti code and overuse of Notifiers

- Advocated and implemented the external controlling of the app with Feature Flags and configuration services

- Spearheaded the effort to build the LookerStudio dashboard to aggregate the production crashes/issues from different countries with various filtering options and charts for insights

- Overhauled Crashlytics with Segment and Sentry to track errors and analytics along with session replay improving the Production Debugging Process

- Standardised the Code Review and Build Pipeline process

- Integrated Fastlane into the pipeline for image capture for 50+ country's app stores greatly removing the manual effort

- Gained Site Reliability Engineering Exposure working with all the systems connected to the mobile app

- Acted as a Technical consultant for other non-iOS related queries

Environment

Swift, Swift UI, Combine, Xcode, Git, BitBucket. Swift Package Manager, Crashlytics, Sentry, Segment, CoreNFC, CoreBluetooth, Realm

Achievements :

- Reduced the Production Error tracking by 50% with the Aggregated LookerStudio dashboard

- Reduced the production ready App Compatibility Information time to 2 weeks from 10 weeks

- Built helper applications to help the QA/BA to generate app compatibility reports cutting down the time by 75%

- Worked with different interconnected system team to identify the dangling issues to the actual origin. Reduced the defects from 80 to under 20

2. PayPal App - Shopping

Client: PayPal – Sep 2020 – July 2022

Client Location: San Jose, California

WFH Location: Frisco, Texas

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paypal-mobile-cash/id283646709

Responsibilities

- Co-lead the effort of HONEY integration into PayPal as shopping tab from start to finish

- Architected, designed and developed the Shopping Module using MVVM Design pattern to achieve modularization and enable UI test coverage

- Developed the Deals landing page using PLUGIN design pattern to add different deal sections for scalability, maintainability

- De-duplicated the effort with Reusable Custom Views to be used across different deal sections

- Leveraged Cocoa pods to modularize the shopping module with segregation of the functionalities with publishing responsibilities

- Used Apollo GraphQL Integration for webservice consumption and de-serialization

Environment

Swift, Xcode, Git, Github, Apollo GraphQL, Cocoapods, Jenkins

Achievements

- Successfully delivered the honey integrated shopping module

3. UA Mobile App

Client: United Airlines – Jan 2020 – Sep 2020

Location: Houston, Texas

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/united-airlines/id449945214

Responsibilities

- Re-platformed the Booking module of the app to swift from objective C

- Developed Accessibility for Special Users

- Implemented the Coredata heavy weight migration

- Built Covid 19 specific screen functionalities

Environment

Swift, Xcode, Git, Core Data, Cocoapods

Achievements

- Successfully Re-platformed the Booking Module

- Swiftly implemented the Covid 19 related screen functionalities

1. Ecommerce Mobile App

Client: JCPenney – Jan 2017 – Dec 2019

Location: Plano, Texas

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jcpenney-shopping-deals/id925338276

Responsibilities

- Co-Designed and developed the Checkout experience from In app browser based to native

- Successfully lead, architected and developed the Apple Pay Integration, Store Offline Feature as a Sole person

- Owned the Sephora Bookings from concept to implementation playing product owner role for the module across the apps

- Integrated Quantum Metric and used its Session Replay feature to identify crashes and app freezes

- Pre-reviewed the Photon resources code to ensure good quality code is available for actual code review to ensure credibility

- Conducted Retrospective meetings with the client on the performance of the Photon team

- Interacted with Android, UX, Business team, Cross Functional teams to ensure no gaps are missing

- Identifying and interviewing the suitable resources to meet client demands

Environment

Swift, Xcode, Git, Core Data, Operation Queue, Dispatch Queue, BitBucket/Stash, JIRA, UrbanAirship, Crittercism, Apptentive, Slyce, Google Maps, Branch, ForeSee, Adobe Analytics, Apptimize, UberTesters, SwiftLint, Google Tag Manager, Carthage, Akamai Botman, Bazaarvoice, QuantumMetrics

Achievements :

- Branded the contact person for any app related queries

- Achieved the best app store rating till date

- Reduced the crash rate to well with the industry limits

- Recognised for Apple Pay integration, Store Offline Mode, Sephora Bookings

2. Fuelling App

Client: ESSO GB ( ExxonMobil ) – August 2015 – Dec 2016

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/esso-pay-for-fuel-get-points/id1140860553

Responsibilities

- Requirements Gathering and Analysis through constant client/onsite interactions

- Design for Fuel Finder, Geo Fencing and filter for iOS/Android

- Development of Fuel Finder, Geo Fencing and filters in iOS

- Leading a 5-member team

- Cross team interaction for the smooth execution of the project

Environment

Swift, Web services, Xcode, Git, Core Data

3. Taint Calculation Engine

Client: KPMG – Nov 2014 – July 2015

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities

- Requirements Gathering and Analysis through constant client/onsite interactions

- Lead a 3-member team and Hands On

- Designed the Taint Calculation Engine Architecture

- Developed the Algorithm for the taint calculation

- Report QC and Smoke Testing adhering to deadlines

- Project Management and Scrum meetings

Environment

C#, Web services, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Git

Achievements :

- Received client recognition for the thorough understanding of their complex Taint Calculation System in short time and designing an algorithm.

- Acted as a ticket to the American dream

1. Entelliguard Manager – Jan 2012 – October 2014

Client: GE

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities

- Responsible to be a core person of developing a POC and converting it to a retainer / contract for 2 years

- Requirements Gathering and Analysis through constant client/onsite interactions

- Wireframes/UX Design for different form factors

- Ownership of certain modules with development

- Adherence to Apple guidelines with App store distribution and Ad-hoc distribution

- Project Management and Scrum meetings

- Weekly demos to the client and internal stake holders

- Environment

- iOS, Xcode, SQLite, Maven, Tortoise SVN

2. MABI Repository Automation – Feb 2011 – December 2011

Client: Abbott

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities

- Lead/Managed the Java team

- Requirements Gathering and Analysis through constant client/onsite interactions

- Design and Logic implementation

- Ownership of certain modules with development

- Weekly demos to the client and internal stake holders

Environment

Java, JSP, Struts 2.0, Hibernate 3, Java Script, Teradata

1. HealthCore – Sep 2008 – Aug 2010

Client: Anthem

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsibilities

- As the only flex resource in the project involved in the requirement gathering, Design and Implementation of the GUI pages

- Cross technology team interactions