Pankaj Bawane

Senior iOS Developer with 8.9 years of experience designing, building, and releasing iOS applications in banking and health insurance domains, including a digital banking app serving 2M+ UK customers. Expert in Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Combine, and REST API integration, with strong command of MVVM, VIPER, Clean Architecture, and SOLID principles. Proven track record in App Store release management, crash analysis, performance profiling, mobile security, code reviews, and mentoring within Agile teams.

Senior Software Engineer at Globant (2022-07 – 2026-09) Project: first direct Banking App (HSBC Group) — digital banking app for 2M+ UK customers covering payments, account management, and secure authentication.

• Developed customer-facing features in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and Combine for a banking app used by 2M+ customers, delivering payments and everyday-banking journeys.
• Integrated authentication framework into login and payment-authorization flows, strengthening security across the app's critical user journeys.
• Led migration of legacy REST services to modern endpoints using URLSession and Codable, partnering with backend teams and refactoring deprecated APIs to cut technical debt.
• Owned end-to-end release management as Release Engineer: App Store and TestFlight cycles, build coordination, QA validation, and production delivery.
• Profiled memory and performance with Xcode Instruments and investigated production crashes with AppDynamics, driving improvements in app stability.
• Applied MVVM, SOLID principles, dependency injection, and protocol-oriented abstractions to keep features modular and testable; adopted Combine for reactive state and UI-to-service communication.
• Conducted code reviews and mentor engineers on Swift best practices, accessibility, and clean architecture.
• Hackathon Winner: Smart Privacy prototype using Core Motion to mask sensitive data based on device tilt.

Senior Software

Engineer at NeoSOFT (2019-02 – 2022-07) Project: Activ Health by Aditya Birla Capital — health insurance app for policy management, claims, and network hospital discovery.

• Developed policy, claims, and customer-service features in Swift and UIKit using MVVM architecture.
• Integrated RESTful APIs with URLSession and Codable for reliable, type-safe data exchange with backend systems.
• Implemented Apple Push Notifications (APNs) delivering policy, claim, and engagement updates to users.
• Integrated third-party SDKs including Firebase Crashlytics, Google Analytics, and CleverTap, enabling proactive crash monitoring, and behavioral analytics.
• Optimized application stability to achieve a 99.2% crash-free rate, up from 96%.
• Collaborated with backend, QA, product, and design teams across full Agile/Scrum delivery cycles to ship features and resolve production issues. iOS Developer at iAriana Technologies Pvt Ltd (2018-01 – 2019-02) Project: Track9 — location-tracking app visualizing user locations on a map.
• Built location-tracking and map-based features in Swift and UIKit.
• Implemented Core Location to fetch, manage, and broadcast live location updates, binding parsed JSON data to views for smooth real-time map rendering.
• Integrated RESTful services using URLSession and codable for JSON serialization.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Engineering – G H Raisoni College of Engineering (2014)