About
I ship highβquality iOS apps endβtoβend. From product discovery and prototyping to Swift/SwiftUI implementation, performance tuning, and release, I focus on usable design and measurable impact.
π Education
B. Tech | ECE
Skills & Technologies
Services
Engagements tailored for teams shipping at scale. I bring opinionated architecture, measurable performance gains, and a calm CI/CD pipeline.
Architecture Audit
Module boundaries, dependency flow, testing seams. RIB β’ MVVM β’ VIPER β’ Clean Architecture.
- Dependency review and refactor plan
- Testability & seams assessment
- Roadmap with milestones
Performance Hardening
Startup time, jank, memory, rendering. Instruments, signposts, flamegraphs, and wins.
- Profiling and hotspots report
- Before/after metrics
- Playbook for sustained gains
CI/CD & Release Ops
Fastlane β’ Xcode Cloud β’ GitHub Actions. Reproducible builds, automated checks, safe releases.
- Pipeline design & setup
- Testing gates & quality bars
- Release cadence & playbooks
Products Worked For
Grab
Super App Β· Eβcommerce
- Revamped legacy modules across Consumer, Driver, Merchant apps
- Led CI/CD pipeline improvements
OYO Rooms
Hospitality Β· Consumer App
- Improved rating from 3.7 β 4.7
- Unit test coverage 4% β 32%
KOHL's
Retail Β· Eβcommerce
- Enhanced iOS experience
- Performance optimizations
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Grab
Jan 2021 β Present
- Revamped legacy modules across Consumer, Driver, and Merchant apps improving performance and maintainability
- Significantly increased unit/UI/snapshot test coverage; led CI/CD to automate builds, tests, and releases
- Drove migrations to modern architectures and concurrency; improved developer experience
- Collaborated with product/design; mentored engineers; championed patents and code quality
SDE 3 Β· iOS, Backend
OYO
Nov 2018 β Jan 2021
- Improved App Store rating from 3.7 β 4.7 via UX, crash reduction, and performance
- Increased unit test coverage from 4% β 32%; built testing infrastructure
- Introduced/refined VIPER; enhanced security with SSL pinning and fraud detection
- Maintained >99.97% crashβfree sessions; owned full iOS release lifecycle
- Mentored 10+ engineers and improved API stability and performance
Activity Overview
β contributions in the last yearGitHub Profile
Popular Repositories
ExperimentWithTesseract
OCR experiments with Tesseract library β’ β 24 β’ C++
resources
Development resources and utilities β’ β 4 β’ Lua
PDFParsingDemo
PDF parsing demonstration for iOS β’ β 2 β’ Objective-C
awesome-cto
Curated resources for CTOs in startups β’ β 1
aryansbtloe.github.io
Personal portfolio website β’ HTML
Community Presence
Latest from Medium
Animating SwiftUI like a Pro: Performance tips
Practical patterns for fluid, batteryβfriendly animations.
Choosing RIB, MVVM, VIPER, or Clean Architecture
Tradeβoffs and decision trees that scale with teams.
Fastlane + Xcode Cloud: a reliable release train
Automating checks without slowing developers down.
Recommendations
What colleagues and managers say about working with me
"Alok is very proactive, dedicated and diligent working professional. Honest and Reliable: A very honest and reliable person to work with positive attitude, who can accept responsibilities and complete the task within deadlines. Innovation: He is the best at what he does, always coming up with new and innovative ways to complete the task with positive results. Technical: His great technical abilities helps team to deliver complex solutions with high quality. He is also very client focused and try to bring out best of class solutions which are well suited to client needs. Behavior: His outgoing nature and genuine desire to help people be their best selves is a trait that makes him such a great peer to work with. Proactive: He is proactive about identifying issues, providing suggestions for ways that the team could improve, and offering his support wherever it was needed. Mentorship: He is a great mentor and understands team sentiments to take them along with him and work as team. Last but not the least, He would be an great asset to any organization and I wish him all very best for his future endeavors!"
"Alok and I worked together at Orahi. He is one of the most sincere and dedicated person, I ever worked with. He has eye for details in user experience and optimised iOS programming as skillset. I wish him all the very best for his future endeavors."
"I have worked with Alok in OYO in the same team. I was a fresher there and being mentored by him was something I feel the best thing happened to me in initial phase of my career. His perfect learning roadmaps, assignments helped me to learn Swift quickly. His code reviews helped me to improve as a developer every day. He is highly experienced and down to earth. I could approach him for every small or big problem, the knowledge gap never came in between also he used to own team's problems that's the best thing about his personality. He is a very good mentor, a perfect team leader and the nicest of human being to work with."
"Alok has worked with me on one of the most challenging project during my stint at OYO as Tech Lead for the major platforms like Android, iOS & m-Web. The technical expertise which Alok has shown in the project is mind-blowing. It was Alok's first project as a Tech Lead and he has shown tremendous leadership skills like Team Management, Stakeholder Management. Alok is one of the most hardworking people I have met at OYO. He went ahead of his comfort zone to make sure the project is delivered on time by staying late and sometimes even writing the code. Any company will be lucky to have Alok because of his tech expertise, leadership skills, and customer-obsessed traits."
"Alok is a great mentor and equally good team player, learned a lot from him. He always honors his commitment and his ability to churn out innovative solutions out of the box make him the go to guy. Alok has in depth knowledge of iOS and his ability to lead the team helped us deliver impactful projects."
"Great Working with Alok. Although Alok has experience in iOS development yet helped me in developing good architecture for Android also. Learnt a lot from you Alok. One more thing that you handled the team of almost 10 engineers along you was working on new tech like backend is very impressive."
"I had recently joined oyo and my first big backend project was under him which apparently was his first project in that tech space too. It never felt he hadn't been working on it for years. He is both a great problem solver and a great team leader. I highly recommend him."
"I started my career under the guidance of Alok. He is very supportive, encouraging and an effective leader. His problem solving skills are excellent and well structured. He has earned everyone's respect through his skills and leadership. Though he was a senior, he always made me feel welcome for my opinions on various issues. Every discussion with him was full of knowledge. I highly recommend and endorse Alok, he will definitely be a valuable asset to the company."
"Alok is a very calm and passionate individual. He mentored me during the start of my career with great patience. He is a well organized and easy to approach person. Overall, his leadership, as well as development skills have inspired me. He is an excellent asset to the team. I highly recommend him."
"Alok is cool guy and his dedication to work is really admirable. He has been great asset to the team. He goes in detail for any problem assigned and comes up with multiple solutions. It was really nice working with him. I highly recommend him in iOS."
"I have always seen Alok as One man army. It never means that he is not a good team member but he prefers to take all pain on himself and then advise the team. Sincere, dedicated & hard worker are the words suitable to his personality. I wish him all the best for future."
"I worked with Alok on an iOS project as his client. I had long technical discussions with him on the product and he showed excellent technical knowledge of iOS, mobile technologies and software engineering. Alok always exceeded my expectations regarding understanding the requirements and delivering high quality work on time. I highly recommend Alok and would love the opportunity to work with him again."
"Alok was one of the dedicated professional I have worked with. Perfectly organized, experienced, well educated and forward thinking natural leader with lots of knowledge in his field. Deadline oriented and intelligent. Apart of work, we always had intellectual conversation in our free time. I strongly recommend him for any Organization."
"Alok is one of the most valuable people I have ever met. Both smart and professional. Experienced, deadline oriented and intelligent person. Highly recommended."
"He is one of passionate and persistent programmer, I have ever seen. He has very good technical skills, very focused and dedicated to producing very best all time. We work together and found him very hardworking, always eager to give best result. Very good talent to have in any company."
"Alok is a very hard working, dedicated and responsible person to work with. He is a person of great enthusiasm and motivational too. Supported his team mates to complete work on time. I strongly recommend him as a IOS developer."
"Alok is a Great Team mate to work with, I have worked with him on various projects and he always used to finish the work assigned to him on time with his excellent problem solving skills. I am highly recommending him to any company as he will be a real boon to your Organisation. Best Of Luck for your future!"
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