Mahendra Liya
Founder & Managing Member at Pocket Study LLC
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolMahendra Liya is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building mobile-first products and backend services from Ahmedabad, India. He has founded multiple ventures (Devapps, Devapps Systems, and Pocket Study) and led engineering teams at companies like Adobe, Rapido, and Highspot, blending hands-on development with product and delivery ownership. His technical footprint spans React Native, SwiftUI, Flutter, Node.js, Docker, AWS, and mobile-native bridges—evidenced by several published apps on App Store and Play Store. At Adobe he drove microservices, CI/CD, and innovative logging using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, and has repeatedly owned end-to-end infra, mobile, and backend stacks for client projects. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture, and people management, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering practices. Outside standard resumes, he repeatedly turns NDA-covered client work into polished commercial apps, showing a knack for shipping customer-facing products under constraint.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at K.P.E.S. English SchoolBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at Sir P.P. Institute of ScienceMaster of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science at Department of Computer Science, Surat
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (130)
cordova-android10
chat10
collaboration10
javascript10
apache-cordova10
appstore10
financial10
java10
android10
nodejs10
amazon10
react-native10
cordova10
phonebook9
obsolete9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
liyamahendra/Expensify
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Welcome to New Expensify: a complete re-imagination of financial collaboration, centered around chat. Help us build the next generation of Expensify by sharing feedback and contributing to the code.
Contributions:2 PRs, 97 pushes, 13 branches in 4 months
financialnext-generationimaginationchatsharing
liyamahendra/android-tictactoe
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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