--- title: "kandavel umapathy - Software Engineer2 - iOS in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal" description: "Meet kandavel umapathy, Senior Software Engineer at Pocket FM based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, claude code, and claude." image: "https://tal.club/meet/kandavel-umapathy/share-image" --- # kandavel umapathy on Tal ## Headline Senior Software Engineer at Pocket FM ## About As a SDE 2 \| iOS at BYJU'S, I apply my B\.E\. in Computer Science and my skills in iOS Development, MySQL, and CSS to create engaging and innovative educational apps for millions of learners\. I joined BYJU'S in October 2021, after working as a SDE 2 \| iOS at Omuni \(Arvind Internet\) for six months, and as a SDE 1 \| iOS at Arvind Internet \- A Division of Arvind Limited for one and a half years\. During my past experiences, I contributed to various features and improvements, such as adding CI/CD setup, autosuggest in search, brand journey, store self delivery, login flow, and leaderboard\. I enjoy working with a team of passionate and talented developers, and I strive to deliver high\-quality and user\-friendly products that enhance the learning experience and outcomes of the customers\. My core competencies are problem\-solving, communication, and collaboration, and I am always eager to learn new technologies and best practices in the field of iOS development\. ## Location Greater Bengaluru Area ## AI stack antigravity claude code claude mcp openai ChatGPT ## Work experience Software Engineer2 \- iOS at Pocket FM, May 2023 \- Sep 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, At Pocket FM, I contributed significantly to the iOS app by enhancing content discovery and audio listening features\. My role involved developing functionalities that connect listeners with creators while optimizing navigation flows\. I also focused on app performance to ensure a seamless user experience, which is crucial for user retention and engagement\. Senior Software Engineer at Pocket FM, May 2023 \- Sep 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid SDE 2 \| iOS at BYJU'S, Oct 2021 \- Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India SDE 2 \| iOS at Omuni \(Arvind Internet\), May 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India SDE 1 \| iOS at Omuni \(Arvind Internet\), Nov 2019 \- May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, \-Added CI/CD set up to the team, which significantly reduced the build release time to the testflight for both B2B and B2C apps\(from around 12 hours to 3 hours\) \- with the help of codemagic and Fastlane\. tools \-Contributed the autosuggest feature in search: helped consumers choose the right and relevant product \- which helps to reduce RTO and exchange, \- Contributed to brand journey where consumers have best user experience wrt to the brand \- Added store self delivery , where store can act as a logistics and store person can deliver the consignments \- contributed to login flow \- where user can login with minimal steps via OTP, for the better user experience \- Added Leaderboard \- where the store can see the revenue placed by in/out stores and agents across the geolocation \- contributed to i18n, specific to brand login \- where they have the option to change the language across the app \- contributed to sizemap, where customer can crosscheck their actual size vs brand size, resulted in significant exchange of the product\(shirt/t\-shirt\) \- Added Exchange flow to the NNNOW app\(B2C\) \- Contributed loyalty,Profile, Store CRM, Item attributes\(metadata\), Customer Preferences \- Migrated to latest swift version and xcode Software Developer at Cooey Technologies, Nov 2016 \- Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bangaon, West Bengal, India, \- Integrated in the peer to peer chat, group chat \- Added webrtc video call \- Integrated various BLE devices to monitor patient BP and health data \- worked in the PDF module, where majorly responsible for e\-signature verification ## Education Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer Science, Coimbatore Institute of Technology Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Coimbatore Institute of Technology [View the original profile](https://tal.club/meet/kandavel-umapathy) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://tal.club/meet/kandavel-umapathy#person", "name": "kandavel umapathy", "url": "https://tal.club/meet/kandavel-umapathy", "image": "https://tal.club/meet/kandavel-umapathy/profile-photo.jpg", "description": "Meet kandavel umapathy, Senior Software Engineer at Pocket FM based in Greater Bengaluru Area. 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