Vinayak Eshwa

Experience

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  Ankita Exports

  Jun 2015 - Jun 2015

  Intern

  Website Development

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  Apple Developers Group, VIT

  Jul 2015 - May 2016

  Technical Head
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  Freelance

  Oct 2015 - Jul 2017

  Freelance iOS Developer

  • Designed and developed the official application of MPBlitz, the interschool fest of M.P.Birla F.H.S. School, Kolkata.• Conceptualised and developed ADG-VIT, the official app of ADG, a student club in VIT Vellore.• Spearheaded WalkIN Vellore, a comprehensive local guide to Vellore, Tamil Nadu.• Developed the official application of Rivera, 2016, the cultural fest of VIT, Vellore.• Used Firebase for backend.

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  ITC Infotech

  May 2016 - Jul 2016

  Intern

  Developed an iOS Application using iBeacons leveraging Core Bluetooth to facilitate indoor navigation.

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  Apple Developers Group, VIT

  Jul 2016 - May 2017

  Vice President Technical
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  Venturesity VIT

  Jan 2017 - May 2017

  Founding Member and Chair
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  Quizbee

  Oct 2020 - Oct 2021

  Associate L2 iOS Developer (SDE-II Equivalent)

  • Sole iOS Developer on a cross-functional team for the mobile application QuizBee. QuizBee is a live real money, knowledge and skill-based gaming app with cash prizes.• Designed 3 algorithms for different components of the app (both server side and client side).• Doubled as a designer to redesign the existing UI, leading to a 15% increase in user conversion.

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  Joyride Games

  Oct 2021 - Aug 2022

  SDE-II (iOS)

  • Collaborated within a cross-functional team to optimize and maintain a shared code base across multiple applications.• Migrated to a modular architecture in collaboration with the team, enabling third-party Unity game integration.• Removed memory leaks on a core module and migrated it from Objective-C to Swift.• Implemented support for Rally Token as in-game currency.

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  Pratilipi

  Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  SE-II

  • Lead iOS Developer for the app Pratilipi (8M+ MAU), a novel reader app.• Spearheaded a feature for improved reading experience by incorporated vertical and horizontal reading modes, color modes, customizable font sizes and line spacing. Increased completed reads by 7% per user.• Contributed to keeping crash rate below 1% by fixing bugs across the app using Firebase Crashlytics.• Added introductory offers to In App Purchases and fixed In App Purchase flows.• Introduced a font system mimicking the nomenclature of Apple’s UIFont.TextStyle for the app’s custom font.• Implemented a Swift wrapper for UICollectionView to remove the need to write UICollectionViewDataSource and Delegate functions each time, thereby decreasing development time, increasing modularity, and reducing repetition of code.• Created a system for Analytics, helping the product team clean up events leading to better insights. • Mentored an intern in his final semester of college. Show less

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  Georgia Institute of Technology

  Jan 2024 - Jul 2024

  Student Volunteer

  Worked with Dr. Thad Starner on creating a toolkit for enabling developers to create games based on American Sign Language Recognition leveraging Google Media Pipe and Tensor Flow.

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  Apple

  May 2024 - Aug 2024

  Software Engineer Intern

  • Designed and developed a metrics visualization dashboard (iOS, iPadOS, macOS - Designed for iPad) using UIKit and SwiftUI.• Implemented raw data processing on device and plotted it on charts using Swift Charts. Data was modeled using Protobuf.• Made contributions to and fixed bugs in C++ and Vapor codebases as well as other internal applications.

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  Stealth Startup

  Aug 2024 - Dec 2024

  Founding Engineer

  • Crafting a personalized health co-pilot to empower individuals with a 360° view of their wellness. • Integrating multimodal medical AI models and deep learning algorithms for real-time, personalized health insights.• Building end-to-end AI development lifecycle, from data collection and preprocessing to model training, testing, and deployment in production while ensuring compliance with HIPAA and ABDM.