Kiran Panesar
Co-founder, CTO at Mode Mobile
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKiran Panesar is a seasoned founder and CTO with 14 years building high-scale consumer products and cross-functional engineering teams from Chicago. He co-founded Mode Mobile (Current) to help budget-conscious users earn from everyday habits, growing the product to hundreds of thousands of daily earners and securing $40M in funding while scaling payouts into the millions each quarter. Kiran combines hands-on mobile engineering (notably contributions to the widely used fastlane project) with data-driven product leadership, running autonomous pods responsible for measurable OKRs. His prior ventures delivered massive traffic and cost-efficient infrastructure—serving tens of millions of monthly page views and optimizing CDN and security at scale. A long-distance runner who still writes production iOS code, he blends product intuition, operational rigor, and a developer’s attention to detail.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddJohn Cabot Academy
English, German
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Github Skills (19)
ios10
fastlane10
automation10
google-apps10
mobile10
automations10
deploying9
objective-c9
ruby9
iphone9
xcode9
appstore6
soundcloud6
cocoapods6
uistackview6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fastlane/fastlane
May 2015 - May 2015
🚀 The easiest way to automate building and releasing your iOS and Android apps
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kiran primarily focused on the `fastlane` project, a tool for automating iOS and Android app builds and releases. Their contributions included fixing incorrect language default messages, removing flawed checks related to iTunes API, and removing tests for the iTunes Search API. The user also merged branches and updated certificate and device-related functionalities within the context of the `fastlane` tool, specifically adding device support.
fastlaneandroid-appsappsdeploymentreact-native
KiranPanesar/MXLCalendarManager
Apr 2013 - Mar 2016
A set of classes used to parse and handle iCalendar (.ICS) files
Contributions:43 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 11 months
icalendaricsics-filesparserparse
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