About

Arjun Ravichandran is an experienced developer, designer, and marketer of web and mobile applications with over 5 years of experience. He is currently working as an Analyst at Deloitte, where he has designed the user experience for multiple websites, mobile apps, and chatbots. Arjun has followed the UX design procedure of requirement gathering, market research, user research, IA, wireframing, and prototyping to optimize the design using tools such as InVision, Sketch, and Axure. He has also contributed to the full android application development lifecycle from planning, requirement gathering, development, testing, and launching in Google Play Store for beta testing. Arjun has programmed with clean modular and robust code using Java, XML, and Android SDK and worked with Express and MongoDB for the development of several RESTful web services and middleware configurations using Node.js. He has hosted the applications in AWS-EC2 instances. Arjun is also the founder of StartChat, where he managed the concept-to-launch of an android instant chat dating app. He achieved 200% product revenue growth in three months by optimizing the premium plan conversion flow and introducing an ad revenue stream. He improved the user activation rate by 200% and boosted conversions to premium plans by 60% by strategizing and implementing a new user Onboarding flow. Arjun reduced the marketing cost per user acquisition by 300% by testing various ad creatives and implementing the best one. He improved clicks and conversions to various features by analyzing the user data collected using Firebase analytics and optimizing the design. Arjun also worked on market research, collected user feedback from over 40,000 users, did a competition analysis before deciding on the features to be provided. He developed the whole android application from scratch using Android Studio, Node.js, MongoDB, AWS, and Firebase. Arjun is also the co-founder of Stairway Labs, where he built a real-time business messaging app for android called BotChat. BotChat connects businesses like KFC, Airtel, RedBus, etc., and users through chatbots. Users can order food, book movie tickets, recharge their phone directly through chat. Arjun designed the application using market research, user feedback, IA, and wireframing. He developed the front end for the application using Android Studio. Arjun holds a Bachelor's degree from Amrita University. He is proficient in Android, designer, mobile, web, Javascript, software engineer, test, research scientist,