Ramakrishnan Yegnaraman

Key Contributions as an Engineering Leader at Uber.

Uber Wallet.

• Architected and delivered the Uber Wallet experience across all consumer apps (Rides, Eats), and the web, introducing features such as wallet top-ups, gift card redemptions, and auto-refill of funds through dedicated payment methods.
• Expanded global payment flexibility by enabling wallet top-ups via multiple payment instruments, including Uber Pay in the EU.
• Designed and implemented Uber Money as a fully compliant digital wallet, ensuring adherence to EU regulatory requirements through robust KYC (Know Your Customer) and SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) flows.
• Developed high-performance iOS front-end solutions and back-end presentation services for the wallet experience as a whole, enhancing platform-wide integration, scalability, and user experience.

Gifting

• Spearheaded innovation in Uber’s gifting experience, enabling seamless purchase and redemption of digital gift cards directly within Uber's consumer apps.
• Engineered a native in-app gifting platform, streamlining gift card transactions across global markets, and driving customer engagement.
• Orchestrated cross-functional collaboration across design, operations, product, and engineering teams to resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies, update stakeholders, solicit constructive feedback in order to deliver a high-quality, scalable and reliable product that can be launched in multiple countries across the globe
• Directed engineering efforts for the Uber Gift Shop experience, enabling users to gift products from the Uber Eats inventory to any intended recipient, thereby expanding the ecosystem of Uber Eats’s consumer offerings globally to millions of users who wish to gift anything and everything to their families and friends

Key Contributions as a Senior Engineer at Apple.

• Played a pivotal role in the design, development, and optimization of iOS and Apple TV applications, directly contributing to significant improvements in user experience, engagement, and adoption across Apple’s ecosystem.
• Championed feature development for Apple Photos and dynamic screensavers on Apple TV, from concept through implementation, delivering high-quality, user-facing experiences that drove measurable increases in user interaction and product stickiness.
• Led the design and implementation of Home Screen syncing across multiple Apple TV devices, ensuring a seamless and consistent user experience, while streamlining access and functionality across multiple AppleTV devices.
• Drove application performance improvements end-to-end by identifying bottlenecks, resolving critical bugs and executing rigorous testing and optimization processes, thereby guaranteeing robust, high-quality releases at scale.
• Acted as a technical leader and cross-functional collaborator, working closely with product managers, designers, and QA teams to ensure features were thoughtfully architected, thoroughly validated, and aligned with Apple’s high standards of quality and innovation.

• Led the end-to-end development of the PriceMachine app, which was launched on the Google Play Store, from architecture, feature design, to implementation, and deployment.
• Implemented an intuitive catalog browsing experience, enabling users to seamlessly navigate product categories through a highly optimized, visually engaging UI focused on usability, responsiveness, and curated product discovery.
• Designed and developed a dynamic price history visualization, leveraging large-scale data processing to generate interactive graphs that provided users with actionable insights into product price fluctuations over the past three months.

Garmin Tracker (GTU-10 device)

• Developed a real-time location tracking application for the Garmin GTU-10 device, enabling accurate visualization and monitoring of device movements.
• Integrated and optimized Google Maps APIs to deliver real-time location updates on map tiles, ensuring high accuracy, and seamless user interaction.
• Designed and implemented dynamic geofencing functionality, allowing users to create custom geofences and receive instant alerts via email or SMS when devices entered or exited defined zones.
• Engineered continuous tracking capabilities, updating device locations every second during active tracking sessions, with efficient handling of high-frequency data updates to maintain performance and reliability.