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title: "Mahendra Shivapurapu - SDE-2 iOS in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Mahendra Shivapurapu, Senior iOS Engineer | Swift · SwiftUI · AVFoundation | 8+ Years in iOS Development | Building for 50M+ Users based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/shivapurapu-mahendra/share-image"
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# Mahendra Shivapurapu on Tal

## 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

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

grok

openai

## 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

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