React Native Core + LangChain.js contributor

Production-grade mobile apps, built to ship.

React Native engineer shipping production iOS and Android apps, open-source fixes, and AI-powered mobile experiences.

I build scalable mobile products with clean architecture, offline-first workflows, real-time systems, release automation, and pragmatic AI features using LangChain, RAG, LLMs, vector databases, and semantic search.

Nikhil Pakhloo

const engineer = {

name: "Nikhil Pakhloo",

role: "React Native Developer",

focus: "production mobile apps",

oss: ["React Native Core", "LangChain.js"]

};

25K+

Active users served

30%

Crash rate reduction

40%

Engagement increase

2

Major OSS PRs approved

About

A mobile engineer with product instincts and internals fluency.

React Native Developer with 2.5 years of experience building and shipping production mobile applications for iOS and Android serving 25K+ users. Open-source contributor to React Native Core at Meta and LangChain.js, with contributions reviewed and approved by maintainers.

Career Story

Nikhil has moved through agency MVPs, field-service platforms, healthcare collaboration, airport networking, and AI document tooling while keeping the work close to production reality: crash rates, app ratings, low-network reliability, release pipelines, and reviewer-approved open-source contributions. He has shipped iOS and Android features for products serving 25K+ users, built offline-first workflows for field teams, and implemented real-time tracking, push notifications, deep linking, search, identity verification, and media-sharing experiences. His work combines product ownership with platform debugging, performance tuning, automated releases, and a strong bias toward mobile systems that keep working after launch.

React Native New Architecture: Fabric, TurboModules, JSI, Hermes, and Native Modules

Offline-first mobile systems with SQLite, resilient sync, and low-connectivity workflows

Real-time apps using Socket.IO, push notifications, FCM, Notifee, and location tracking

AI document experiences with LangChain, RAG, embeddings, Pinecone, Gemini, and semantic search

Production release engineering with Fastlane, Gradle, GitHub Actions, TestFlight, and Play Console

Skills

A stack built around shipping resilient cross-platform products.

Grouped directly from the CV across mobile, internals, backend services, AI, testing, DevOps, architecture, and release management.

Mobile

React NativeExpo SDKReact NavigationRedux ToolkitZustandContext APIAndroid StudioXcodeFCMNotifeeSQLiteDeep LinkingUniversal Links

Internals

FabricTurboModulesJSINew ArchitectureNative ModulesHermes EnginePerformance Profiling

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonKotlin

Backend & Data

REST APIsFirebaseExpress.jsSocket.IOSentry

AI / ML

RAGLLMsGenerative AIPineconeText EmbeddingsOpenAI APIPrompt EngineeringSemantic Search

Testing

JestDetoxUnit TestingE2E TestingRegression Safety

DevOps

GitHub ActionsGradleFastlaneCI/CDApp SigningRelease ManagementTestFlightGoogle Play Console

Architecture

Clean ArchitectureMVVMModular Code StructureAgileCross-Platform DevelopmentReact DevTools

Experience

Impact timeline across production mobile teams.

Each role highlights ownership, measurable business outcomes, and the technologies used to deliver them.

Feb 2026 - Present

React Native Developer, Codingzone Solutions

Mohali, PB • Agency

Stabilized and shipped multiple React Native MVPs across iOS and Android.

Reduced app crash rate by 30% by fixing memory leaks from uncleaned event listeners, FlatList over-rendering, and image caching issues across 2 React Native MVPs.

Shipped community and social app MVPs end-to-end, owning UI implementation, REST API integration, and app store submission for iOS and Android.

Automated Android build and release workflows using Gradle and GitHub Actions, reducing manual release effort across environments.

React NativeREST APIsGradleGitHub ActionsTestFlightGoogle Play Console

May 2025 - Jan 2026

React Native Developer, Psquare

Mohali, PB

Built offline-first and real-time field operations systems for hundreds of users.

Built offline-first authentication and attendance tracking for Suryacon, serving 500+ field agents with reliable low-connectivity operation.

Implemented real-time technician location tracking via Socket.IO and push notifications using Notifee for Massaed, reducing average field response time by approximately 25%.

Maintained Jest unit tests for reusable utilities, state management logic, and critical workflows.

React NativeSQLiteSocket.IONotifeeJestRedux Toolkit

Dec 2023 - Apr 2025

React Native Developer, Primotech

Mohali, PB

Engineered core features for a 25K+ user collaborative medical network.

Built core Figure1 features including Notifee push notifications, face recognition-based identity verification, and keyword/filter post search.

Improved app store rating from 4.0 to 4.6 through targeted bug fixing, performance improvements, and UX enhancements.

Built content sharing functionality that increased user engagement by 40% and debugged Android/iOS platform-specific issues using React Native internals.

React NativeFirebaseExpo SDKNotifeeFace RecognitionFabricTurboModulesJSI

Projects

Project systems with real constraints, real users, and real outcomes.

Showcase cards translate each CV project into the problem solved, features shipped, architecture, challenges, and measured outcomes.

Personal Project

RAG-Based AI Document Assistant

GitHub

Problem: Enterprise documents are difficult to query when answers are scattered across long files and knowledge bases.

Outcome: Built a production-ready AI assistant that enables natural-language querying over enterprise documents with sub-2s response time.

Challenge: Balanced retrieval latency with response quality by designing a production-suitable chunking and indexing strategy.

Architecture: LangChain orchestration with Gemini, Pinecone vector storage, text embeddings, semantic search, and RAG response generation.

Features

Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipelineSemantic document searchVector embedding storageChunking and indexing strategy optimized for latency and answer quality
LangChainGeminiPineconeVector EmbeddingsRAGSemantic Search

Company Project

Figure1

Live

Problem: Medical professionals need a trusted collaborative network with reliable notifications, identity verification, and fast content discovery.

Outcome: Supported a collaborative medical network for 25K+ active users, improved rating from 4.0 to 4.6, and helped increase engagement by 40%.

Challenge: Debugged platform-specific behavior across Android and iOS while working close to React Native internals.

Architecture: React Native and Expo SDK app with Firebase services, Notifee notifications, deep links, universal links, and Detox regression coverage.

Features

Push notificationsFace recognition-based identity verificationPost search with keyword and filtersDeep Linking and Universal LinksDetox E2E coverage for critical flows
React NativeFirebaseExpo SDKNotifeeDetoxDeep Linking

Company Project

Massaed

Live

Problem: Elevator maintenance teams need faster issue reporting, status visibility, and technician dispatch coordination.

Outcome: Built service workflows for 2,000+ users and reduced average maintenance response time by approximately 25%.

Challenge: Kept field workflows responsive while monitoring crash reports and production error trends.

Architecture: React Native service app using Socket.IO for live location and Sentry for real-time crash reporting.

Features

Issue reportingReal-time status trackingTechnician bookingLive technician locationCheck-in/check-out workflows
React NativeSocket.IOSentryNotifee

Company Project

Suryacon

Live

Problem: Field agents need dependable attendance and workflow tracking in low-network environments.

Outcome: Delivered offline-first authentication and data sync for 500+ users with approximately 99% reliability in field conditions.

Challenge: Designed reliable operation around low-connectivity constraints rather than assuming always-online usage.

Architecture: React Native CLI app with Redux Toolkit, SQLite persistence, Socket.IO live tracking, and offline sync.

Features

Attendance trackingOffline-first authenticationSQLite data syncReal-time location trackingField workflow support
React Native CLIRedux ToolkitSQLiteSocket.IO

Company Project

Gatef8

Live

Problem: Travellers in airports need real-time, location-aware discovery of nearby active users.

Outcome: Built a geo-location airport networking app with live user activity and automated release pipelines.

Challenge: Balanced location-aware engagement with production monitoring and release automation.

Architecture: React Native app with geo-location matching, Sentry monitoring, and Fastlane build/release automation.

Features

Nearby traveller discoveryLive activity trackingLocation-based matchingCrash monitoringAutomated iOS and Android releases
React NativeFastlaneSentryGeo-location

Company Project

Hooplo

Community App

Problem: Community users need a familiar, fast media-sharing experience for posting visual content, watching reels, and discovering social activity.

Outcome: Built an Instagram-like community application focused on media sharing, reels-style content consumption, and social engagement.

Challenge: Built media-heavy social interactions where feed performance, video/reel playback, upload flows, and smooth scrolling are central to the user experience.

Architecture: React Native community app architecture for feed rendering, media sharing, reels-style content surfaces, REST API integration, state management, and mobile release workflows.

Features

Media sharing community experienceInstagram-like social feedReels-style short-form video experienceVisual content discovery and engagement
React NativeREST APIsRedux ToolkitReact NavigationNotifeeSentryFastlane

Open Source

Maintainer-reviewed contributions to core developer infrastructure.

The CV includes merged and approved contributions to React Native Core at Meta and LangChain.js.

React Native Core

Meta • PR #57271

Fixed incorrect Android logical border-radius mapping for borderEndStartRadius and borderStartEndRadius, aligning Android behavior with iOS and CSS specifications.

Updated unit tests and validation coverage.

Collaborated with Meta engineers during code review.

Merged into the React Native main branch after maintainer approval.

LangChain.js

PR #11090

Added streaming OpenAI Responses API built-in tool progress events for Web Search, File Search, and Image Generation.

Implemented lifecycle event handling for in_progress, searching, generating, and completed states.

Enabled real-time UI updates during streaming.

Added converter test coverage and collaborated with maintainers through review and approval.

Achievements

Measurable wins from production, open source, and field operations.

Production Scale

Built and shipped mobile applications used by 25K+ active users across iOS and Android.

Business Impact

Reduced crash rates by 30%, improved app store rating from 4.0 to 4.6, and increased engagement by 40%.

Field Operations

Helped reduce response time by approximately 25% in technician workflows with real-time tracking and notifications.

Open Source

Merged contributions into React Native Core and shipped approved LangChain.js streaming support.

Education

Academic foundation.

Sri Sai University

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Applied Mechanics

Sept 2014 - May 2018

Contact

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