Nikesh Shakya

iOS · Android · Backend — Est. 2016 — Kathmandu, Nepal

I turn founders' ideas into products people keep on their home screen

Eight years, thirteen shipped apps — iOS, Android and the backends behind them. Co-founder of IOU-Money, founding engineer at Going Solo — I own the entire build, from architecture and backend to launch day.

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Nikesh Shakya working on a MacBook
Co-Founder · IOU-Money

8+

Years shipping products

13

Apps on the App Store

6

Countries served

5.0★

Top Rated on Upwork

Capabilities

The stack I own

Languages

  • Swift
  • Objective-C
  • Kotlin
  • Java
  • Python
  • NodeJS + TypeScript
  • PHP / Laravel

Platforms

  • iOS — SwiftUI, UIKit
  • Android
  • Web & Backend

Tools

  • Xcode
  • Firebase
  • AWS — Lambda / S3 / EC2
  • Postgres
  • MongoDB
  • Stripe
  • Figma

2016 — Present

Experience

  1. Sep 2020 — Present

    Co-Founder · IOU-Money Nepal

    Built the fintech product end to end — Swift and Kotlin apps, Django + Postgres backend, notifications, S3.

    Swift · Kotlin · Python/Django · Postgres · Firebase

  2. Feb 2023 — Apr 2024

    Founding Engineer & PM · Going Solo San Diego, US

    Solo-travel social app: led the build across iOS, Android and a NodeJS backend on AWS with realtime sockets.

    Swift · Kotlin · NodeJS · AWS Lambda/S3/EC2 · Postgres + Mongo

  3. Aug 2016 — Present

    Freelance iOS Developer · Upwork Remote · Top Rated

    5.0★ across Pricemoon, JetPacific, Soccerhub, Vita App, 1Account, Orbis, Cheersworld and more.

    Swift · Objective-C · Apple Pay / Stripe / PayPal · MapKit

  4. Feb 2020 — Jul 2021

    iOS Engineer · Alimento France

    Consumer and retailer grocery apps, plus the scraping backend that fed them.

    Swift · Stripe · Algolia · Scandit · Django

  5. Nov 2017 — Jan 2019

    iOS Developer · Unicorn Global South Africa

    TABBS and Everframe — reactive MVVM codebases with biometric auth and UI test coverage.

    Swift · MVVM · ReactiveCocoa · Biometrics

  6. May 2017 — Mar 2019

    Software Engineer (iOS) · Artup Inc. United States

    Artist community app — media pipelines, deeplinks, realtime chat and the full Firebase suite.

    Swift · Objective-C · Core Data · Firebase · Socket.io · Fastlane

Selected work — 01–13

Thirteen products, shipped end to end

Kind words

Clients keep coming back

“He is wonderful to work with — always positive, forward-thinking, independent — and completed our project in less than 3 months. Nikesh would be an asset to any company.”
Anthony Fillion-Maillet — Alimento
“I gave him a deadline of 3 weeks — he delivered in 3 days. Great communication, replies within 5 minutes at any time. I recommend this freelancer to absolutely anyone.”
Andrew Norton — JetPacific / SkyAlliance
“A great, talented, diligent developer. His UI skills are excellent. Bravo — we will be working together again for sure.”
Darryn Ten — Unicorn Global
“One of the best individuals I have ever worked with — careful, proactive, self-motivated. Through tough times Nikesh stuck alongside the team and kept making the product better.”
Ali Siam — Artup

Articles

Notes from the field

Responsive Design in iOS Application

Xcode gives you drag-and-drop UI — and a hundred ways for it to break across devices. How I keep interfaces consistent everywhere.

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