Durgesh Parekh

• Converso (in-house SaaS, getconverso.in): Designed and shipped a multi-tenant lead CRM for high-ticket Indian SMBs — Flutter mobile app, Next.js dashboard, and a serverless Node.js/TypeScript API on AWS Lambda with Supabase Postgres and row-level security; launched publicly in September 2026.
• WellTek IoT Platform: Delivered a real-time industrial load-monitoring platform connecting smart weighing sensors to cross-platform mobile, tablet, and web dashboards, with automated weight logging and alert rules for overload and material loss across warehouses and fleet vehicles.
• Xposcan Product Launch: Built and shipped an AI-assisted lead-capture app live on the App Store and Play Store — offline OCR, OpenAI Vision field extraction, Node.js/TypeScript REST backend, and multi-user RBAC — reducing manual lead-entry time by 85%.
• Delivery Ownership: Owned product scoping, technical decisions, production troubleshooting, and delivery across both client engagements and in-house product work.

• Mobile Leadership & Scale: Led architecture, implementation, testing, and production releases for the Customer and Chef Flutter apps serving thousands of active users.
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Automated App Store and Play Store delivery with Codemagic CI/CD, cutting build and submission time from ~2 hours to ~35 minutes (a roughly 70% reduction).
• Product Growth & Analytics: Implemented PostHog event tracking and session replay instrumentation, contributing to a 15% improvement in mobile onboarding conversion.
• Operations & Pricing Portals: Built React operations tools for chef dispatch, dish-rate calculations, pricing, tips, extras, grocery bills, and booking workflows used by internal operations teams.
• Hire Curated Delivery: Delivered Hire Curated (Aug–Oct 2025) with dynamic screening templates, auto-sent candidate questionnaires, and analytics workflows that saved recruiters 15+ hours per week.

Smart-home IoT platform — progressed from founding Android engineer to Software Team Lead over 8+ years.

• Engineering Leadership: Led an 8-engineer software team across mobile, web, backend, and QA — daily stand-ups, sprint and release planning, code delivery, production support, and cross-functional execution with hardware and business teams.
• High-Throughput IoT Scale (30,000+ Devices): Refactored Node.js backend services and real-time MQTT message queues to support 30,000+ concurrent devices at 99.9% uptime, cutting command latency from 1.5s down to 200ms.
• Product Integrations End to End: Designed new product integrations from system architecture and data flow through MQTT/AWS IoT communication, backend services, mobile interfaces, and production rollout.
• Hotel Automation Product Line: Spearheaded end-to-end architecture for a new Hotel Automation line from POC to production—synchronizing a receptionist Flutter Web portal with staff mobile apps and on-site RFID key management.
• Home-Link Smart Screen Controller: Architected the Home-Link Smart Screen Controller on custom Android hardware with Flutter, engineering cryptographic hardware-binding security to protect proprietary software.
• Ecosystem & Voice Integrations: Oversaw end-to-end system design for DALI lighting protocol integration, App Shortcuts, 'Add to Siri', account switching, sub-user permissions, in-app Google Home/Alexa linking, and Apple HomeKit hub POC.
• NFC Automations & Support Infrastructure: Engineered secure NFC automation workflows with cryptographic tag validation; built an advanced support portal managing multi-tier team access, audit logging, and Over-the-Air (OTA) firmware updates.
• Product Research & Roadmap: Ran product research and roadmap prioritization against hardware milestones and customer requirements, translating product decisions into executable engineering workstreams.
• Cloud DevOps & Cost Optimization: Optimized AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, IoT Core, Serverless) and database query patterns, reducing monthly hosting expenses by 20% while sustaining high-throughput IoT scale.

• Cross-Platform Migration: Led the migration from legacy native Android/iOS apps to a unified Flutter codebase across Android, iOS, and Web, reducing maintenance overhead by 40% and consolidating cross-platform feature delivery.
• Startup Performance (+25%): Improved mobile startup performance by 25% through code reviews, rendering and state-management optimization, and targeted cleanup of legacy application flows.
• Offline-First Architecture: Implemented an offline-first architecture using Hive for local persistence, with instant cached-state hydration on launch.
• Touch Panel Design Portal (Flutter Web): Developed a Flutter Web Touch Panel Design Portal enabling sales teams and dealers to configure custom panels, map appliance icons, and generate production-ready PDFs, reducing material wastage by 50–60%.
• Mobile Platform Integrations: Delivered geofencing, Siri Shortcuts, app widgets, background workflows, IFTTT, sunrise/sunset triggers, and native smart-panel interfaces while keeping the primary application architecture cross-platform.
• Backend & Cloud Reliability: Managed Node.js backend services and AWS EC2 infrastructure at 99.9% uptime for high-volume IoT/API traffic; led code reviews and mentored junior mobile developers.

• Native iOS Architecture: Built and maintained Smartnode's home-automation iOS module — lighting, curtain, IR, lock, and other device controls — with UDP socket communication for instant local LAN discovery and MQTT for sub-100ms cloud hardware control.
• Store Rating Boost & Reliability: Implemented native mobile capabilities and production fixes across Swift/iOS, resolving critical crashes and raising App Store ratings from 3.5 to 4.5+ stars while establishing feature parity with the Android app.
• UI/UX & Hardware Co-Design: Collaborated cross-functionally with backend and hardware teams to deliver Apple-standard UI/UX flows and led regression testing across diverse iOS devices and OS versions.

• Founding Mobile Architecture: Joined as a founding mobile engineer and architected the Android app with an offline-first architecture, using UDP socket programming for direct LAN control and MQTT for real-time cloud-to-hardware communication.
• Core Automation Modules: Built core automation modules from scratch (lighting, curtains, RGB moods, door locks, IR devices, scenes), partnering with embedded hardware engineers to co-design protocol schemas.
• Scale to 50,000+ Devices: Helped scale the platform to 50,000+ connected smart panels and touch switches across residential and commercial deployments, with sub-100ms command latency over MQTT and AWS IoT Core.