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Sandeep Mekala
Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences
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iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.
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Key Strengths
- End-to-end ownership of iOS features from architecture through production rollout
- Built real-time customer support chat + notifications with offline support (SwiftUI/Firebase/WebSockets/Core Data)
- Refactored legacy notification system to unify push and in-app alerts; improved reliability/latency by ~30%
- Strong code quality practices (SwiftLint, pre-commit hooks) and scalable review approach (smaller logical PRs)
- Handled race conditions between socket events and local persistence; focus on thread safety/Combine
- Player-coach leadership with ~60% hands-on / 40% management; mentoring via pair programming
- Improved team alignment and delivery via weekly tech syncs, RFCs, and async decision-making (GitHub/Figma)
- Owned a production incident end-to-end (rollback, Firebase log analysis, hotfix for backward-compatible payload handling)
- Structured people management: bi-weekly 1:1s, start/stop/continue feedback, 30/60/90-day improvement plans
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