Chitra Sushma Warrier

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Engineering Manager at Prism Energy · IOS apps · UIKit, Swift

Prism Energy
Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
Anna University
English, Hindi, Malayalam
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Overview

11 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Prism Energy, where I lead the iOS team. Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 523ms to 141ms. Moved 89% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Before that: American Express and KPMG.

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Skills
XCTestCombineJetpack ComposeSwiftUIKitCore Data
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

9 backend engineer roles open on the iOS team in Kochi

Role
Backend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹30-55 LPA
Team
IOS, 11 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with UIKit Production experience with Jetpack Compose Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹20-49 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Kochi, India · remote OKxctestjetpack composecombine
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2026 - Present
    Prism Energy · 5 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 637ms to 175ms.
    • Shipped 29 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
  2. Senior iOS Engineer
    Jun 2023 - May 2026
    American Express · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 17 a week to 1.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
    KPMG · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 31 a week to 1.
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 39% in two quarters.
  4. iOS Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
    Salesforce · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Took crash-free sessions from 97.4% to 99.8%.
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 43% in two quarters.
  5. iOS Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Sep 2017
    Freshworks · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 7%.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 2.

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Education

  1. Anna University
    B.E., Mathematics
    2010 - 2014

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