iOS engineer · Gurugram, India
iOS engineer at Blinkit since 2024. I ship indie apps for iPhone and Mac, organise Swift Delhi, and won Apple’s Swift Student Challenge four times (2021–2024).
Where I work, and apps I built for Tech Burner.
Engineer building Blinkit’s consumer iOS app, used by millions of people across India every day. 260+ merged pull requests across the app and its shared iOS modules.
Swift · SwiftUI · UIKit · Server-Driven UI · Crashlytics
Built and launched from scratch for Techburner: a SwiftUI wallpaper app that reached 200K+ downloads and up to 100K active users. Ran App Store releases with the Techburner team.
SwiftUI · App Store
Apps I built for clients.
iOS work for a Dutch sleep and breathing device: Bluetooth pairing and sync, a custom audio and video player for guided sessions, and early Kotlin Multiplatform work to share code with Android. The app passed 10K downloads.
Swift · Core Bluetooth · AVFoundation · Kotlin Multiplatform
An education app connecting students with the adults who care about them: shared to-dos, college applications and events, on iPhone and the web.
iOS
Apps I design, build and ship on my own.
A one-minute daily speaking coach. Record yourself, get AI feedback on clarity and fluency. iPhone, iPad and Mac.
SwiftUI · Supabase · Whisper · GPT
Turns the MacBook notch into a handy hub: quick controls, shortcuts and glanceable info right where the camera sits.
SwiftUI · AppKit · macOS
One app, many games with friends: Wordmates (a live multiplayer word game), Texas Hold’em and Mafia. Real-time, no voice or video.
SwiftUI · WebSockets · Node
Mac app for making App Store screenshots with 3D device mockups. Use a real iPhone as a live motion controller for the mockup.
SwiftUI · SceneKit · macOS
Tools and libraries anyone can use.
Create multi-track music and podcasts in augmented reality.
Swift · ARKit · AVFoundation
Prototypes, award entries and things I built to learn.
A cinematic, photorealistic 3D flight over Gurugram: Cyber Hub, Golf Course Road and the Aravalli ridge. Inspired by People of Bengaluru.
Next.js · 3D · Vercel
Fly a drone in augmented reality. Winning entry for Apple’s WWDC24 Swift Student Challenge.
RealityKit · ARKit
A music player with a click-wheel inspired control ring. In progress.
SwiftUI
A real-time WebGL study of light on water: a pirate ship on a Gerstner-wave ocean, lit by the real sun and moon for your date, time and location. Every mesh and texture is generated at start-up.
Three.js · WebGL · GLSL
A backend-driven UI framework that builds SwiftUI views from JSON. In progress.
Swift Package · SwiftUI
A Swift Playgrounds game. Selected for Apple’s WWDC21 Swift Student Challenge.
Swift Playgrounds · SpriteKit
Interactive playground accepted to Apple’s WWDC22 Swift Student Challenge.
Swift Playgrounds · SwiftUI
Real-time body pose tracking on iPhone with Vision.
Vision · Core ML
Point the camera at anything and identify it instantly, with a confidence score.
Core ML · AVFoundation
A calculator styled after classic hardware, with all the basics.
Swift · UIKit
Talks, meetups and the Indian iOS community.
Zomato × Blinkit’s meetup for iOS developers. The first edition in 2024 brought together 300+ developers in Delhi NCR; I helped run the 2025 edition, with talks from founders and engineers.
Meetup
I organise Swift Delhi, a community that brings iOS developers across Delhi NCR together to learn, connect and build. I also spoke at its February 2025 meetup at Galgotias University.
Organizer · Talks
Four-time Swift Student Challenge winner (2021–2024). Attended WWDC in person at Apple Park in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
WWDC · Swift Student Challenge
Gifting Tim Cook the OG Blinkit jerseyWWDC25 · Apple Park
With Susan Prescott, Apple’s VP of Worldwide Developer RelationsWWDC25 · Infinite Loop
With Josh Miller, founder of The Browser CompanyWWDC24 · Cupertino
On a panel as a 4× WWDC Scholar2024 · Bengaluru
Talking to student developers2025
With Technical GurujiWWDC24 · Apple Park
Swift community socialWWDC24 · San Jose
Third year in a row at Apple ParkWWDC26“Thanks for all your contributions Ayush, it has been a pleasure collaborating! You brought our product to the next stage.”
“I was impressed with your quick and iterative UI development. Without you we wouldn’t have made our deadlines.”
“You had a great contribution in releasing the sleep program in such a tight deadline.”
“Thank you for the motivation! You’re an incredible source of inspiration!”
