Navya Shikha Kalra

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Staff iOS Engineer at Northgate Technologies · Combine, SwiftUI

Northgate Technologies
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi
Co-founder
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Overview

I've spent 13 years on iOS apps - first at InMobi, now at Northgate Technologies. Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 6%. Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 38 a week to 4. Most at home with XCTest and SwiftUI. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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  • People who want to build this with me
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Skills
SwiftUIXCTestSwiftCore DataCombineUIKit
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for pet insurance for D2C brands

The idea
Pet insurance for D2C brands
Stage
Prototype
I bring
4 years in iOS apps
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Gurugram or remote

I bring 13 years of iOS apps (currently Northgate Technologies). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Gurugram, Indiaswiftcore datacombine
Open

Experience

  1. Staff iOS Engineer
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Northgate Technologies · 10 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Led the migration of 52 services to Core Data.
    • Took crash-free sessions from 97.1% to 99.6%.
  2. iOS Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Dec 2025
    Deloitte · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 31% in two quarters.
  3. iOS Engineer
    Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
    Flipkart · 3 yr · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 728ms to 52ms.
    • Moved 94% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
    Deloitte · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Took crash-free sessions from 96.1% to 99.9%.
  5. Senior iOS Engineer
    Feb 2017 - Mar 2019
    InMobi · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 29 a week to 3.

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Education

  1. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    2008 - 2012

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