Ravi S. Iyer

Professional Summary

In the area of mobile and web application development in React Native, Next.js and MERN stack, I offer the following services on a part-time, remote basis (approximately 20 hours per week):

• Mentoring - Guiding students and beginners through practical learning, project work, and skill-building.
• Software development - Developing web and mobile applications tailored to client requirements.
• Technical consultancy - Providing general technical guidance based on my extensive software development experience

I am happy to offer a trial period to any company or individual seriously considering my services. I also offer deeply discounted rates for software projects that are service-oriented and not-for-profit. Such work is scheduled as lower-priority work relative to commercial engagements. For more, see here .

Current Skills Summary (June 2023 to Jan 2026)

• Mobile and web app development using React Native and Expo, including publishing Android app on Google Play.
• Web app devlopment using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Bootstrap, Node Express, and Mongoose/MongoDB
• LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect social login (using React frontend and AWS Java Lambda/Node Express backend)
• Exposure to using Gemini AI API from React app
• Using ChatGPT and Gemini AI tools for mobile and web app development
• 'Plain vanilla' web app development using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• VB.Net

Past Skills Summary (1984 to 2002)

Architecture, Design, Coding and/or teaching/mentoring roles in/using:

• Web technologies using C#/ASP.Net and Java 2 Enterprise Ed.
• OOAD incl. Design Patterns and UML
• GUI Design
• TCP/IP socket prog, VoIP MS API, SMTP gateway, X.400, X.500, Sendmail, Banyan Vines Network OS, RPC, Videotex
• IIS & Netscape web server API, Web Services (SOAP)
• C/C++, STL, Visual C++/MFC, Visual Basic, Oracle, Sql Server, Informix, PowerBuilder, SQLWindows, X-Windows API, Wang VS Assembler, COBOL
• Microsoft Windows, Unix/Linux/Solaris and Wang VS operating systems
• ATL/COM, Multi-threading, XML, Windows Hooks

Companies Worked With As Employee/Consultant (2025; 1984 to 2002)

• USA customer (Agility1st, Georgia, USA) from Feb 2025 to Mar 2025: Offsite, part-time, work-from-home project.
• Netherlands startup (CelPro, Mumbai) from Jul 2001 to Aug 2002: Offsite Netherlands company project.
• Mastek, Mumbai from Nov 1993 to Jun 2001: Offsite US, UK, Japanese, German etc. company projects.
• Freelance Corporate Training Instructor in Mumbai from Mar 1993 to Oct 1993
• Indian startup (Boshu Technics, Mumbai) from Jun 1990 to Nov 1992: Onsite and offsite US, German and South Korean company projects.
• Datamatics, Mumbai from Mar 1984 to May 1990: Onsite assignments: Wang Labs. USA and Belgium, Baan Netherlands; various offsite projects.

Software Development Experience Overview

• December 2025 to January 2026 (1 month part-time)

  • Examined possibility to create Bhagavad Gita Static JSON files API hosted on generous free-tier GitHub Pages. Started its implementation as sponsored work.

• Mainly from September 2025 to November 2025 (3 months part-time)

  • Did study, code-along and some improvements of React Native and Expo with Strapi backend education (LMS) tutorial app (mobile and web).

• June 2025 to early July 2025; Dec. 2025 (1 to 2 months part-time)

  • Developed React Native and Expo Timestamp Tracker app (mobile and web) with ChatGPT and Gemini assistance and published Android app on Google Play. Developed Blogger Posts Lister Web App (HTML & JS) using Blogger API v3.0 with Gemini assistance.

• February 2025 to March 2025 (1 to 2 months part-time)

  • Worked on enhancements related to LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect social login for a React frontend (hosted on AWS Amplify) and AWS Java Lambda backend app for a USA based customer.

• October 2024 to December 2024 (3 months part-time)

  • Worked as ReactJS (and Bootstrap) frontend developer in a software company team for an NGO educational portal's volunteer contributions driven, learning aids asset management web app in part-time, work-from-home free service volunteer mode. This marked my return to software development work in software industry.

• June 2023 to September 2024 (16 months)

  Returned to software development work after a gap of around ten years

  • June 2024 to Aug 2024 (3 months part-time)
    • Developed an open source Bhagavad Gita Frontend app using Next.js, React, Tailwind, TypeScript and GraphQL - Reduced functionality live app as GraphQL backend is not available, GitHub repo, Blog post with screenshots. Made notes-posts for other self-learners.
  • October 2023 to May 2024, September 2024 (9 months part-time)
    • Learned Next.js, Tailwind and TypeScript. Wrote notes-posts to help other self-learners.
    • Developed a Blogger Blog Feed to HTML Book open source, plain vanilla JavaScript app (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) - GitHub repo.
    • Learned MERN (MongoDB, Express, React.js and Node) full stack web development with simple blog mini-project:
      Full Stack ver. (needs credentials; slow initial API access) - GitHub repo.
      Local Storage ver. without credentials - GitHub repo.
      Published roadmap and notes to help other self-learners.
  • June 2023 to Nov 2023 (6 months part-time)
    • Developed an open source Blogger blog backup to book software in VB.Net - GitHub repo.

• 1984 to 2014 (30 years)

  • 2011 to 2014 (3 years part-time)
    • Blogged about improving software development practice in academia, shared my lab. courses material online (link given below), and explored open source IT development for rural society which did not really take off.
  • 2003 to 2012 (9 years)
    • In a Deemed University in India, taught programming (lab) courses and was technical consultant for projects at M.Tech. (CS) and M.Sc. (Maths & CS) level.
  • 1984 to 2002 (18 years)
    • In software development industry (in U.S., Europe, Far East Asia and India), played roles right from programmer, designer, project manager, software development manager to finally a software consultant role.

Detailed Software Development Experience

Non Software Development Work

• Sept. 2011 to June 2023 (11 years 9 months)

  • Wrote on social media (blogs and Facebook) on spirituality & religion as well as worldly topics (including some computer industry history posts). About my books and blogs