Ravi S Iyer

Full Stack Mobile & Web Developer and Mentor (React Native, Next.js, MERN)

Former Software Consultant

Former Visiting Faculty (Software)

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

• Mentoring - Guiding students and beginners through practical learning, project work, and skill-building.

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

Academic Teaching Experience (2003 to 2012)

Have taught (and introduced most of) the following (lab.) courses at M.Tech., M.Sc. & B.Sc. levels in a Mathematics & Computer Science department of a deemed university in Andhra Pradesh, India:

1. Open Source Web Technology (As applied to a free school educational web portal)

2. Advanced Unix Programming

3. Network Programming (TCP/IP Sockets)

4. Multi-Threaded Programming

5. Minix/Linux Kernal Internals

6. C++ Programming

7. C Programming

8. Java Web Programming

9. C# & ASP.Net Web Programming

10.VC++/MFC/Windows Programming

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.

For more details, see my Résumé (short): https://ravisiyer.github.io/biodata/
and my Detailed software development experience (PDF): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RgscfT7WMTw003uXiXSGE0j9UPO2qSj-/view