About

Yugandhara Bodhekar is a highly skilled Senior iOS Engineer currently working at Rakuten. With over 8 years of experience in iOS development, he has specialized in Swift, SwiftUI, and has professional experience working with Objective-C. He has valuable experience in the entire software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, debugging, and maintenance. At Rakuten, Yugandhara is responsible for developing the Rakuten Magazine iOS app with Swift, SwiftUI, and managing supporting Framework/SDK with Objective-C. He is also responsible for handling the Viewer/Reader module for the Magazine and designing and architecting the Streaming Process for Magazine Reader. He takes responsibility for scrum master and Jira management, follows best industry practices - Agile Methodology, and reviews other team members' code. Additionally, he manages the App store release process and delivers efficient, reusable, reliable, crash-free code in Swift and Objective-C that reaches millions of users. Yugandhara has also worked on other Rakuten products, such as Rakuten Aquafadas, a no-code development platform to build mobile apps for smartphones, tablets, and web designed for enterprises and digital publishers. He has handled multiple applications for Aquafadas Product, iOS SDK(Framework), AppFactory(MacOS App), Viewer(iOS App), etc. He designs, develops, manages, integrates, and maintains technical components and templates and automates the build process pipelines with CI tools (CI/CD Jenkins). He has also helped clients create their own separate iOS Apps, such as National Geography, Dinamalar, Shueisha, etc. In addition to his work at Rakuten, Yugandhara has previously worked at Infosys as a Technology Analyst and at Cybage as an iOS Developer. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad. Yugandhara's technical expertise includes iOS, Objective-C, Swift, Web, Software Engineer, CI/CD, test, designer, Jenkins, Mobile, and Senior Software Engineer. With 9.11 years of relevant experience, Yugandhara is a passionate iOS developer and designer who delivers high-quality code and user experiences.