# Vaibhav Laghane

> Staff Software Engineer - Mobile Applications

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vaibhavlaghane

Mobile engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building scalable mobile platforms across fintech, healthcare, telecom, and enterprise domains. I currently work as a Staff Mobile Engineer at SoFi, where I help deliver high-impact mobile solutions used by millions of members.
I specialize in mobile architecture, platform scalability, and SDK development, with deep expertise in iOS, Android, cross-platform systems, and modern engineering practices. Throughout my career, I’ve led initiatives that improved reliability, reduced operational costs, and enabled teams to move faster through better architecture and tooling.
Beyond building products, I enjoy mentoring engineers, shaping technical architecture, and driving engineering excellence across teams.
Recently, I’ve been expanding my work into Generative AI, LLM systems, and agentic workflows, exploring how AI can enhance developer productivity and power intelligent mobile experiences.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer, iOS @ SoFi
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading mobile development for the SoFi Invest platform within the flagship SoFi app, supporting millions of members across banking, lending, and investing products.
• Lead architecture and development of core mobile modules for the Ops platform

• Reduced member-to-agent operational round-trip calls by ~30%, significantly lowering support overhead and saving millions in operational costs

• Designed and implemented Outage Messaging framework, enabling graceful app degradation during backend incidents and protecting revenue and user trust

• Drive scalable architecture and introduce frameworks adopted across mobile teams

• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams
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 Collaborate with product, backend, and leadership teams to deliver high-impact fintech features

### Senior Software Engineer - Mobile @ Abbott
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
Developed core functionality for FreeStyle Libre, a global continuous glucose monitoring platform used by millions of diabetes patients.
• Introduced MVVM architecture across 3 mobile applications and multiple engineering squads, creating a modular and scalable codebase

• Improved developer onboarding and productivity by standardizing architecture and code patterns across teams

• Increased maintainability and testability, reducing bugs and enabling faster feature development cycles
• Built mobile features interacting with BLE and NFC medical sensors for real-time glucose monitoring
• Contributed to architecture design and ensured compliance with FDA, ISO, and medical device standards
• Collaborated with product owners and engineering teams in agile delivery cycles

### Mobile Applications Lead @ People Tech Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Redmond
Led development of T Mobile Analytics SDK used to capture and process custom user events.
• Scaled the monthly user logins from 1million to 10million
• Designed SDK architecture and implementation strategy

• Worked with analysts to translate business requirements into technical solutions

• Led sprint planning and task distribution across engineering team

• Mentored junior engineers and ensured high code quality

### Mobile Applications Lead @ BlackRock
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Seattle Area
Led development of enterprise mobile applications used by financial advisors globally.
• Architected iPad applications providing investment insights and sales enablement tools

• Built reusable libraries for networking and UI components

• Implemented offline storage solutions for enterprise content access

• Collaborated with vendors and internal teams to deliver production-ready applications

### Mobile Applications Developer @ JPMorgan Chase
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Developed enterprise mobile applications for financial advisors and global conferences.
• Built iOS and Android applications delivering investment insights and digital content

• Designed features supporting multi-language deployments across global markets

• Delivered apps reaching 15K+ enterprise users

• Participated in architecture, development, testing, and production support

### Senior Software Engineer @ Larsen  Toubro Infotech
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
As a Senior Software Engineer I am involved in requirements gathering, design, development and testing phases of a product. 
I am responsible for analysis of programs including performance, diagnosis and troubleshooting of programs, and designing solutions.
My role also includes to document code consistently throughout the development process and maintain any changes made in database tables .

### Graduate Student @ Stony Brook University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Stony Brook, New York
Worked on projects on network programming and video streaming. Masters project involved - Development of hand over strategies for video streaming to mobile nodes. Tradeoff analysis between continuous connectivity, network utilization and cost-performance ratio for mobile nodes using simulation.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-laghane-44646816

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Last updated: 2026-04-12