Naveen Gali

Key Responsibilities:

• Architected and shipped a distributed, consumer-facing location intelligence API at scale, serving contextual search over 3.55M+ points of interest using PostgreSQL, PostGIS, pgvector, and H3-based crowd signals.
• Cut warm-cache response time to 19ms — a 24x improvement over baseline and 98.7% lower infrastructure cost at 1M requests/month — by instrumenting per-layer latency and re-engineering the dynamic geospatial index.
• Served as backend partner to an external company (Inhotel Inc) on a European city pilot, designing and exposing customer-facing APIs that compute walkability, greenery, and noise scores from multi-source urban data.
• Shipped a React Native consumer app with LLM-driven itinerary generation, cutting user planning time by 40% and scaling to 2,000+ concurrent users on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB).
• Owned the AWS deployment lifecycle end-to-end — EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions — for the production Polyhistor API.
• Containerized and orchestrated backend services with Docker and Kubernetes, standardizing local-to-production parity across the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Led a cross-functional team of 12 engineers and stakeholders, translating business requirements into React Native technical specs for "Landmarks," a gamified consumer app.
• Instituted CI/CD pipelines and code review standards, reviewing and merging 25+ pull requests with zero critical production regressions.
• Shipped the beta release ahead of schedule by building a reusable, scalable component library adopted across the client-side codebase.

Key Responsibilities:

• Led a JavaScript-to-TypeScript migration on a Fortune 500 consumer mobile app, improving runtime performance by 25% and eliminating entire classes of production errors.
• Reduced crash rates by 15% on legacy Android devices by profiling and optimizing list rendering and Redux state management.
• Partnered daily with designers, PMs, and backend engineers to ship pixel-perfect, cross-platform features under tight deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Increased user retention by 50% by rebuilding core authentication and dashboard flows at the product's primary onboarding drop-off point.
• Cut initial data load times by 40% by replacing blocking synchronous API calls with optimized asynchronous data-bridging patterns across the full stack.
• Collaborated directly with founders/product leads in an early-stage environment, owning features from spec to deployment with minimal oversight.