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RAHUL SUREKA

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic iOS Engineer at PayPal with expertise in Swift and SwiftUI. Led development of revenue-driving features like Money Pools, improved UI architecture, and boosted test coverage and team efficiency through clean, scalable code.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer (iOS)

PayPal
Bangalore
01.2023 - Current
  • Part of the P2P Payments team generates 15% of total company revenue, working on mission-critical, high-scale features that impact millions of users.
  • Contributed to the migration from UIKit to SwiftUI for the entire P2P module, helping to modernize the UI and improve architecture for maintainability and performance.
  • Developed key flows for the Money Pools feature, enabling group fundraising, drove $87M in annual incremental TPV, and saw 250K pools created within the first 6 months of launch.
  • Architected and built a dynamic Payment Review screen, supporting 75+ UI variations and 30+ experiments, leading to a 6% drop in review screen abandonment.
  • Collaborated on P2P Payment Links, allowing users to send and receive money via messaging apps, increased send-money volume by 8%, and reduced drop-off on contact screens by 17%.
  • Integrated Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) serves real-time localized content, resulting in a 0.4% app size reduction through efficient asset handling.
  • I drove the Tech Excellence initiative, personally fixing 100 code smells and increasing test coverage by 8-9%, helping the team improve overall coverage from 28% to 62%, and resolve 600 issues across the P2P codebase.

Associate Software Engineer (Backend)

Entain
Hyderabad
09.2021 - 12.2022
  • Implemented personalized game feed sorting using signals like Recently Played and Games You May Like for casino platforms across brands such as Bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, BetMGM, and Gala Bingo, leading to improved user engagement and retention.
  • Implemented an automatic seat assignment system for live blackjack tables, improving player experience and reducing wait times during high-traffic periods.
  • Developed vendor/game access control features, enabling block/unblock/filter logic based on jurisdiction and vendor type, ensuring regulatory compliance across global markets.

Education

B-Tech - Petroleum Engineering

Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Petroleum Technology
Amethi
07.2021

Higher Secondary (HSC) -

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
Akola
05.2017

Secondary School (SSC) -

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
Akola

Skills

  • Swift programming
  • iOS development
  • UI architecture
  • SwiftUI
  • UIKit
  • Java
  • Git
  • Cocoapods
  • Swift Package Manager
  • GraphQL
  • Data structures
  • Algorithms
  • Xcode
  • Git
  • Proxyman
  • Postman
  • Datadog
  • Problem solving

Accomplishments

  • PayPal Props received the PayPal Props award for significant contributions to the P2P Money-Pools initiative
  • PayPal Props received the PayPal Props award for significant contributions to the P2P Free Transparency initiative
  • Manager's awardee, recognized with an award at Entain for delivering key projects ahead of schedule, with zero live issues (LIs) during production rollout
  • Solved 800+ data structures and algorithms questions across various platforms like LeetCode, InterviewBit, GFG, etc
  • JEE-Advance 2017, ranked 13,369 in JEE Advance 2017 among 1.4 million candidates, which translates to the top 1%

Certification

  • DSA and MERN, Geekster: intensive 6-month bootcamp covering data structures, algorithms, and MERN stack development
  • iOS Development Bootcamp, Udemy: iOS development with Swift, covering UIKit, and SwiftUI

Timeline

Software Engineer (iOS)

PayPal
01.2023 - Current

Associate Software Engineer (Backend)

Entain
09.2021 - 12.2022

B-Tech - Petroleum Engineering

Rajiv Gandhi Institue of Petroleum Technology

Higher Secondary (HSC) -

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

Secondary School (SSC) -

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

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