Ravi Shankar
Self Employed
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRavi Shankar is an experienced iOS developer, consultant and trainer with over a decade focused on Swift and Objective-C and 25+ years in software development overall. Based in Chennai, he has spent 13+ years as an independent app developer delivering production iOS apps, leading product development for niche verticals like sailing clubs, and building an MVP that helped a startup secure funding. He combines hands-on engineering with a strong teaching pedigree—running corporate workshops (including PayPal), co-authoring a Udemy course with 11,000+ students, instructing at Make School in San Francisco, and mentoring bootcamp graduates. Comfortable across mobile and backend stacks, his early career spans enterprise systems in Java, Unix and GIS integrations, giving him a pragmatic systems view beyond mobile. Lifelong learner by practice, he frequently presents at universities and organizes workshops, translating complex concepts into practical skills.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Mechanical, B.E, Mechanical at Manonmaniam Sundaranar UniversityMahatma Montessori Matriculation Higher Secondary School
English, Tamil, Hindi
Stackoverflow
3,075reputation
432kreached
35answers
3questions
Github Skills (18)
swift6
alamofire6
xcode6
uitableview6
uicollectionview6
swiftyjson6
objective-c6
ios6
uinavigationbar6
feed5
reader3
rss3
rss-reader3
internationalization3
coredata2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rshankras/FlickrPhotoSearch
Aug 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 4 months
rshankras/Playground
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Playground Introduction
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 26 pushes in 3 years 2 months
playground
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