Mahesh Venkateswarlu

Led mobile team in delivering SDK and app development, overseeing technical direction and execution

• Involved in doing AGILE SAFe practices, attending daily agile (SCRUM) meetings and SPRINT planning, Program Increment meetings
• Developed groundbreaking SDK to embed Arc video content into iOS and tvOS media apps, integrating Arc IO feeds, managing subscriptions, and handling identity management
• Developed Arc XP app (formerly Broadcast), an iOS solution enabling field reporters to livestream breaking news simultaneously to their organization's website and social media platforms, while also uploading video and photo content
• Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Bitrise for seamless SDK distribution via CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager
• Built a MVP version of the hybrid web app using react-native expo framework
• Designed and implemented AWS resources (AWS Transfer, Lambdas, S3, CloudFront, SSM, etc.) for app development and binary distribution using CloudFormation Templates (CFT)
• Developed Lambdas using Python, NodeJS as REST micro services for the app needs
• Developed REST micro service apis to collect the client requests and load into DynamoDB for the analytics
• Managed a portfolio of 35-40 iOS white-label apps for major North American news outlets, including Toronto Globe & Mail and Raycom, driving continuous improvement and maintenance
• Created Jira initiatives quarterly and led team efforts to streamline delegation, improve collaboration, and present delivery roadmaps
• Awarded The Washington Post's Engineering Innovation Award as a co-recipient for outstanding technical achievement.

• Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) such as requirements gathering, modeling, analysis, design, development, and testing
• Implement login functionality on iOS app using Salesforce OAuth authentication
• Development of UI screens with different size classes and Constraint Layout
• Implemented Data loading and Data parsing logics across all screens from web services
• Localization of applications to support Spanish, Portuguese languages
• Worked with Cocoa pods to integrate with Salesforce SDK framework using OAuth keys and tokens
• Integrated Google Analytics to measure and optimize user acquisition and engagement with app
• Used JIRA as project management software and used GitHub as Version Control Tool
• Worked on developing RESTful endpoints to communicate with backend services for data flow
• Performed code reviews, mentored team and assisted individual developers to have team that worked well together, grew as individual developers and produced successful project and product.

• Worked on High level and low-level system design, planning, estimation and implementation
• Onsite coordinator delegating tasks to offshore team
• Integrated Restful web services with parsing responses by JSON serialization
• Integrated GOOD framework for authentication, email and browser capabilities
• Programmed in order to acquire and store persist cacheable content such as static data, images and user preference data using Core Data and NSUserDefaults
• Worked with UI Action Sheets, UI Table Views, Custom Cells, UI Scroll Views, Navigation Controllers, delegates, and protocols.

• Worked extensively with Objective C and Cocoa Touch Frameworks which includes UIKit, Foundation, MapKit and Core Location.
• Constructed views using XIB files, storyboard, foundation, UIKit.
• Worked with SVN to checkout and update codebase changes.
• Responsible for deployment and managing apps (nearly 60) in Apple, Google Play Store and MobileIron Lilly Appstore (MDM)
• Involved in Unit Testing, Performance Analysis, Profiling and Memory Leaks using XCode's Instrument and fixed leaks and bugs.