Summary
Hariom Palkar is an iOS-first product engineer with 7 years of experience building consumer mobile experiences and AI-driven app features from prototype to production. Currently splitting time between a stealth startup and leading AI and app-experience initiatives at Swiggy, he has shipped high-scale features for 20M monthly users, driven a SwiftUI migration, and owned Live Activity/Dynamic Island efforts that customers love. He blends hands-on engineering (managing teams of 10+ and running CTO-office experiments) with product sensibility honed as a founder and early-stage product lead. Past roles span fintech and consumer startups where he built first-version products, led small cross-functional teams, and learned the operational realities of scaling. Habitually tinkering, he pairs curiosity about AI with a practiced discipline for testing, docs, and reliable releases. Based in Bengaluru, he’s equally likely to be exploring a new city or napping between building the next app experiment.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Startup School Graduate, Startup School Graduate at Y Combinator
iOS Developer Nanodegree Program, iOS Developer Nanodegree Program at Udacity
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Software Engineering at SRM IST Chennai
English, French, Hindi, Marathi