Lakshmi Sonia Chopra

Director of Engineering at IBM · IOS apps · Swift, UIKit

IBM

Philadelphia, PA · ET (UTC-5)

9+ years experience

Boston University

English

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Overview

Currently at IBM, where I lead iOS apps with a team of 5. Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 9%. Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion. Before that: Okta and Bain & Company. Most at home with SwiftUI and UIKit. I write short fiction no one reads.

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Core DataPyTorchSwiftUISwiftUIKitXCTest

Co-founderLooking for a co-founder

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Looking for a commercial co-founder for farm-input financing for public hospitals

The idea: Farm-input financing for public hospitals
Stage: Early revenue
I bring: 5 years in iOS apps
Looking for: Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment: Full-time now
Location: Philadelphia or remote

I bring 24 years of iOS apps (currently IBM). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Full-time from day one.

Philadelphia, PApytorchswiftuikit

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Experience

Director of Engineering
Sep 2025 - Present
IBM · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 10%.
- Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 33 a week to 2.
iOS Engineer
May 2023 - Jul 2025
Okta · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Moved 74% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 9%.
Engineering Manager
Dec 2021 - May 2023
Bain & Company · 1 yr 5 mo · Contract · Philadelphia, PA
- Grew the iOS team from 6 to 14 engineers.
iOS Engineer
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Wells Fargo · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 24 minutes to under 6.
Senior Engineering Manager
May 2017 - Aug 2020
Expedia Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
- Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 42% in two quarters.
- Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

Boston University
BS, Computer Engineering
1997 - 2001

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