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Mahendra Shivapurapu

Senior iOS Engineer | Swift · SwiftUI · AVFoundation | 8+ Years in iOS Development | Building for 50M+ Users

Bengaluru

8+ years of work experience

ShareChat
Jul 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

Bengaluru

QuillBot
Apr 20236 mosSep 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

ShareChat
Nov 20211 yr 4 mosFeb 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Maveric Systems Limited
Jul 20201 yr 6 mosDec 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

CognitiveClouds
Jul 20181 y 8 moMar 2020

Bengaluru

Indus Net Technologies (INT.)
Jan 20162 y 6 moJul 2018

Kolkata

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Education

Techno India Institute of Technology

Bca, Computer Science

Techno India Institute of Technology

20123 yrs2015

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Headline

Senior iOS Engineer | Swift · SwiftUI · AVFoundation | 8+ Years in iOS Development | Building for 50M+ Users

About

8+ years building high-performance iOS products for millions of users across OTT streaming, social media, and fintech domains. Most recently, I architected the video player and playback infrastructure at ShareChat & Moj. At ShareChat & Moj (SDE-2, iOS), I built QuickTV from scratch, an OTT microdrama platform built with SwiftUI, AVFoundation, and Swift Concurrency that generated ₹350M+ in revenue within 6 months. I also introduced the OTT microdrama experience on Moj, driving a 200% increase in DAU through content and creation experiences built with UIKit and RxSwift, and architected Moj's video player and ABR-based playback engine from scratch, cutting load times under 100ms for near-instant playback. In between, I built the QuillBot iOS app and a custom keyboard extension from scratch, integrating AI-powered paraphrasing and grammar-checking. Earlier, in my first stint at ShareChat & Moj, I built plug-and-play video, image, and audio creation frameworks using AVFoundation, achieving a 99.8% success rate while replacing a third-party SDK and cutting vendor costs. Before that, at Maveric Systems, I led iOS development on the authentication platform for client Citibank, used by 50M+ monthly active users across 16 markets, cutting biometric login to ~2 seconds and hardening the app with SSL/certificate pinning. I started my career building consumer apps from scratch as a primary or sole iOS developer across food delivery, ride-hailing, and healthcare domains at Indus Net Technologies and CognitiveClouds. What I bring: • Scale: shipped iOS products to millions of users across OTT streaming, social media, and fintech domains • Breadth: 8 apps built from scratch to the App Store, plus large-scale platform engineering across startups and enterprises including ShareChat, Moj, QuillBot, and Maveric Systems (Citibank) • Architecture: Modular design using SOLID principles from reusable SPM frameworks to scalable high-performance apps. Swift · SwiftUI · Objective-C · AVFoundation · SPM · CI/CD · Architecture · Security · SOLID Principles

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

SDE-2 iOS at ShareChat, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru

App Development Engineer at QuillBot, Apr 2023 - Sep 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SDE-2 iOS at ShareChat, Nov 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

SDE-I iOS at Maveric Systems Limited, Jul 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer at CognitiveClouds, Jul 2018 - Mar 2020 · 1 y 8 mo, Bengaluru

Junior Software Engineer at Indus Net Technologies (INT.), Jan 2016 - Jul 2018 · 2 y 6 mo, Kolkata

Education

Bca, Computer Science, Techno India Institute of Technology