Irvanjit Singh Gill

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Software Engineer (iOS)

Experienced software engineer with over 5 years of full-time industry experience working in both large and small teams on mobile and backend stacks. Proficient in iOS and Android development. Passionate about creating functional, helpful and user-friendly experiences for end-users.

Work Experience

Yelp | Senior Software Engineer

Toronto, Ontario | Jan 2022 – Present

Permanent, Full-Time, Remote

iOS Engineer on the Discovery UX team, which owns Home, the screen that sees the most consumer traffic in the iOS app
Building the Home Feed and optimizing other areas of the home screen to boost user engagement, and improve UX and utility
Regularly lead projects, write and review code, run and analyze AB experiments, respond to incidents, and manage app releases

Clearbridge Mobile | iOS Developer

Vaughan, Ontario | Oct 2020 – Dec 2021

Permanent, Full-Time, Remote

Developed and launched the YES iOS app for Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network to 650,000+ active users in under 3 months
Shipped major updates for the NESN iOS app (New England Sports Network), integrating various REST APIs, libraries, and services

Tesla | Infrastructure Engineering Intern

Palo Alto, California | Sep 2017 – Dec 2017

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Created a load testing framework to improve performance and reliability of internal CAD design tools used for Model 3 production
Improved infrastructure performance resulting in shorter design cycle iterations for the vehicle design and assembly line

Apple | Software Engineering Intern

Cupertino, California | Sep 2016 – Dec 2016

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Maintained an iOS app to test iPhone manufacturing operator performance and accuracy via in-app AB experimentation
Wrote and deployed a XCTest suite via XCode Continuous Integration to automate UI testing and improve release cycle efficiency

Clearbridge Mobile | Mobile Developer Co-op

Vaughan, Ontario | Jan 2016 – Apr 2016

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Worked with designers, product managers and clients to architect, develop and deploy a new Android app, Rethink Tires
Shipped updates, usability enhancements, and analytics integration for Android apps, NBC Telemundo News and TD UGO Wallet

Toast | Automation Engineering Intern

Cambridge, Massachusetts | Jan 2015 – Apr 2015

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Developed a framework to automate integration testing for the Toast POS system on web (Selenium, JUnit) and Android (Appium)
Implemented features and regression fixes on the Android client and backend service (Java, Play)

Vectorface | PHP Developer Co-op

Ottawa, Ontario | May 2014 – Aug 2014

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Developed an internal localization tool using AngularJS and Bootstrap used for game development
Improved performance by over 50% and created a significantly streamlined UX, for faster development cycles

Vitalhub | iOS Developer Co-op

Toronto, Ontario | May 2013 – Aug 2013

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Implemented a chart plotting user interface for patient vitals and other client-side features for the Vitalhub Chart iOS app
Redesigned and refactored the UI to create a dynamic and responsive View layer using Auto Layout

Bnotions | Application Developer Co-op

Toronto, Ontario | Sep 2012 – Dec 2012

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

BNOTIONS, a subsidiary of Bogaroo, was acquired by Symbility Solutions, and then later, CoreLogic
Implemented server-side features and APIs for client projects using Django
Developed a Flask backend for an internal team metrics dashboard

IBM | Software Development and Test Engineering Co-op

Ottawa, Ontario | Jan 2012 – Apr 2012

Internship, Full-Time, In-Person

Implemented regression fixes and conducted sanity, regression and performance testing for a11y (accessibility) features

Volunteer Experience

Khalis Foundation | Developer

Sacramento, California | Sep 2017 – Present

Volunteer, Part-Time, Remote

Maintaining Learn Larivaar, an interactive tool used to read Sikh scriptures in a traditional form with words joined together
Maintaining AnvaadJS, an open-source unicode script converter for Indic languages

Gursevak (Charity) | Mobile Developer

Brampton, Ontario | May 2016 – Feb 2023

Volunteer, Part-Time, Remote

Maintained native iOS and Android apps for an educational charity that offers an interactive method to learn the Gurmukhi script
Shipped updates to an active user base of 50,000+ across both platforms, added features and improved app performance by 3x

Education

University of Waterloo | Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering

Waterloo, Ontario | Sep 2011 – Apr 2018

Relevant Courses: Algorithms/Data Structures, Operating Systems, Embedded Microprocessors, Networks, Databases, Distributed Computing, Cooperative/Adaptive Algorithms, Algorithm Design/Analysis, Programming for Performance

North Park Secondary School | Ontario Secondary School Diploma - OSSD

Brampton, Ontario | Sep 2007 – Jun 2011

International Business and Technology Program

Projects

irvanjitsingh/raagnotes

Developed an iOS app to input and generate musical notation sets for Indian classical compositions and ragas (musical scales)
Built with Xcode, Swift (UIKit)

irvanjitsingh/discovergurbani

Designed and developed an Android app) to read the Sikh scriptures in multiple languages and scripts
Built with Android Studio, Java, Retrofit, GSON, GurbaniDB API

irvanjitsingh/quaterloo

Developed a Q&A platform during Angelhack 2012 for University of Waterloo students to ask questions and chat with classmates in real-time
Built with Python, Django, SocketIO, JQuery, Foundation, Heroku

Skills

Programming Languages: Swift, Objective-C, Python, Java, C++, C#, C, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, JSON, XML, CSS, SQL

Frameworks: iOS, Cocoa, UIKit, SwiftUI, XCTest, Android, JUnit, Django, Flask, NodeJS, ReactJS, React Native, REST APIs, Unicode

Tools: Xcode, Android Studio, Git, MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Tableau, AWS, Firebase, Splunk, Jenkins, Linux, Unix

Interests

Powerlifting, soccer, cycling, classical music, reading, cooking, spirituality