I initially built Tetherball as a mesh networking solution that allowed users to share cellular connectivity. In November 2015 we were acquired by a Toronto based private equity firm Springboard Capital. I worked for a year at Tetherball, leaving after my cliff in December 2016.
In that time the company grew to include Dave Kappos (Former Director of US Patent and Trademark Office) as an advisor and to own over 70 patents around connectivity. Currently the company builds solutions for partners that complete network requests without the need for data connectivity.
I joined through the acquisition of iSchoolerz.com at age 17. Leaving highschool my junior year, I got to experience hiring an engineering team, working and learning from serial entrepreneurs, growing products that touched millions of students, and raising capital (seed & series a). I played multiple roles from engineering day to day to overall company strategy.
Developed free mobile applications across windows phone, android, and iOS for high schools across the US that resulted in ease of access and additional resources for students, parents, teachers, and staff.
Worked on the iOS sdk side of things with features such as Custom Notifications, the Sample App, and wrote documentation. Also developed and designed consumer applications to showcase Kiip's custom notifications and proper integration. Here's an article written during my time there.
http://www.businessinsider.com/ash-bhat-got-invited-to-wwdc-by-siri-bashing-2013-6
Built a really simple app in a couple hours to scrape Whitehouse.gov to keep track of presidential actions. The app got a surprising response with multiple news sources covering it and numerous high profiled people contacting us.
A couple friends and I built an app to track Pokemon after reverse engineering Pokemon Go. The app got downloaded half a million times in 5 weeks before getting shut down.
Published an app to share contact information seamlessly. I built the app as a way of thinking through product, design, growth, and engineering end to end. Apple featured Rive on the front page of Business on the App Store.