Bharath Rao
Principal Software Engineer at Walmart Labs India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBharath Rao is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 12+ years building production-grade iOS apps and leading architecture, deployment, and support across the full SDLC. He has a proven track record of shipping products from scratch at scale—contributing to Walmart’s global eCommerce mobile platform and earlier driving consumer-facing features and payment integrations at Ola. An inventor with a published patent and a regular speaker and organizer in the iOS community, he also mentors developers through talks and a long-running technical blog. His open-source work includes iOS contributions to electrode-native (React Native container tooling) and experiments in CoreML and NLP, reflecting a blend of mobile UI, performance tuning, and machine learning curiosity. Notably, he won a 24-hour Ola hackathon with a geo-fenced SoS prototype, showing a knack for rapid prototyping of safety-critical features. He combines deep platform expertise (Objective-C/Swift, iOS security, memory and selector performance) with practical experience shipping SDKs and frameworks that power large-scale mobile ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at National Institue of Engineering (NIE)
Kannada, English, Sanskrit
Github Skills (5)
mobile10
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
android4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
electrode-io/electrode-native
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
A platform to ease integration&delivery of React Native apps in existing mobile applications
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:98 commits, 193 PRs, 175 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bharath primarily contributed to the iOS side of the React Native application, focusing on container-related functionalities. They implemented features to support different font types within the container, fixed bugs related to the React Native initialization process, and addressed memory leak issues related to selector performance. Additionally, the user made modifications to the mini-app removal process. The commits suggest the user worked on both code generation and core container logic.
reactreact-nativeandroidnodejsios
gmbharath12/electrode-native
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
Electrode Native Platform
Contributions:46 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years
electronreact-nativejavascriptplatform-nativenodejs
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