About Shiva R

• Overall 8+ years experienced developer with expertise in iOS and OS X application development
• Systems Analyst with expertise in design, requirement gathering & analysis, and development of iOS/Mac applications with industry leading tools and programming languages
• Strong business orientation, analytical and problem-solving skills combined with required programing skills  
• Experience in working with hybrid applications written in Swift and Objective C
• End-End understanding of iOS app development to submitting the app to the App store
• Worked in small to large teams with a tighter deadlines and challenges
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming design principles and practices
• Good understanding in various design patterns such as MVC, MVP, MVVM, Singleton
• Proficient in writing clean and reusable code
• Worked on applications involving cross platform code sharing and solved other challenges in feature development
• Experience in making app to support multiple languages thereby internationalizing the app
• Worked on majority of the Cocoa frameworks and other third-party frameworks
• Worked on implementing local, push notifications and background fetch
• Experience in using instruments tool for analyzing performance bottlenecks and profiling the application
• Experienced in working with Auto layouts and size classes for iPhones and iPad
• Worked with Cocoa Pods framework manager for integrating third party librariesReactiveCocoa, AFNetworking, etc.
• Worked on location services API’s such as Google Maps SDK and MapKit
• Experienced in consuming Restful web services with native API’s
• Written helper methods for increased productivity and reusability across projects
• Experienced working with concurrent code execution using Grand Central Dispatch(GCD)
• Updated layouts to support multiple languages using localization API’s
• Thoroughly implemented the major architectural design patterns such as MVC, VIPER and major iOS patterns which are heavily used in iOS SDK’s such as Delegation, Singleton, Target-Action, Factory, Dependency Injection and observers as and when desired
• Experience creating and executing automated unit tests (XCTest and UITest Automation)
• Experienced in working with Clean Architecture using xcode templates
• Implemented a new way of tracking miles driven using iBeacons with standard core location API’s
• End End understanding of user authentication mechanisms in a mobile driven system to ensure security at different levels such as user data privacy and network security
• Experience in working in C++ in conjunction with objective C and Xcode
• Created custom controls and worked with majority of UI controls at the latest
• Participated in scrum meetings and experienced in agile methodologies 
• Worked on several source / version control systems such as Git, Source Depot and Svn etc.,
• Worked on code porting and refactoring among cross platform applications to use a shared codebase for OSX application
• Experience in teams working with continuous integration and app deployments
• Performed code reviews and peer-peer discussions
• Experience in using several software development tools to expedite the development process
• Experience in working with onsite/offshore business model