Murugesh

iOS Technical Lead with 10+ years of experience building and shipping scalable consumer and enterprise iOS applications. Deep expertise in Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, UIKit, Combine, and Swift Concurrency. Proven track record of improving app performance by 30%+, reducing crash rates by 20%+, and leading cross-functional teams of 5+ engineers from design through App Store release. Experienced across e-commerce, fintech, and AI-powered marketing automation platforms.

iOS Technical Lead at Photon Interactive (2024-03 – Present)

• Architect and lead iOS development for a large-scale e-commerce app (500K+ active users) across multiple business-critical modules using Swift, SwiftUI, Combine, and Swift Concurrency.
• Reduced app crash rate by 20% and improved overall performance by 30% through targeted profiling with Xcode Instruments, memory management improvements, and async/await refactoring.
• Led UIKit-to-SwiftUI migration across 8 legacy modules, cutting feature development time by ~25% and improving UI maintainability.
• Enforced engineering best practices: code reviews, reusable component library, modular architecture (SPM), and clean coding standards.
• Managed end-to-end App Store release pipeline — build generation, TestFlight distribution, App Store Connect coordination, and stakeholder communication.
• Mentored and led a team of 5+ iOS developers; introduced bi-weekly tech talks and structured onboarding to reduce ramp-up time.

Senior Software Engineer (iOS) at Zocket Technologies (2021-11 – 2023-12)

• Built an AI-powered marketing automation iOS app that reduced Meta ad campaign creation time by 60% through automated workflows and ChatGPT API-generated copy.
• Integrated Facebook Graph API for end-to-end campaign management; onboarded 200+ SMB clients to the platform within 6 months of launch.
• Designed scalable SwiftUI + MVVM architecture with modular feature packages (SPM), enabling the team to ship new features 40% faster.
• Integrated APNs push notifications and deep linking to increase user re-engagement by 35%.
• Led team of 2 iOS developers from product inception to App Store release; collaborated with backend, product, and QA teams on sprint planning and delivery.

Senior iOS Developer at Market Simplified (2018-06 – 2021-11)

• Developed and enhanced Angel Broking's trading iOS app, serving 1M+ registered users with real-time market data streaming via WebSocket.
• Migrated 40% of legacy Objective-C codebase to Swift, reducing average build time by 20% and eliminating 3 categories of recurring crash types.
• Integrated GA4 analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, enabling the product team to make data-driven decisions that reduced user drop-off by 15%.
• Implemented UIAccessibility (VoiceOver support) across core trading screens to meet SEBI digital accessibility recommendations.
• Maintained 99.8% crash-free rate across 3 major app versions using Instruments profiling and proactive memory management.

iOS Developer at Hubino Technologies (2016-01 – 2018-05)

• Built and delivered multiple iOS applications using Swift and Objective-C with focus on performance and scalability.
• Implemented offline-first data synchronization using local databases, Core Data, SQLite, and AWS S3.
• Integrated OpenCV-based image processing features for computer vision use cases.
• Developed scalable mobile features with focus on reliability, secure data handling, usability, and maintainability.

B.E. in Engineering – Vel Tech High Tech Engineering College, Chennai (2011 – 2015)