Lokesh D.
AI & Mobile App Developer | React Native, Expo, Next.js, OpenAI
I build iOS and Android apps and AI products that real people use every day. I built features for Insight Timer (50M+ users, Editor's Choice on both stores), co-founded KissanAI (agriculture AI and our own LLMs), and have 12+ years of shipping apps, from native Android and iOS to React Native, Next.js and Node.js. ▶️ Why me: ✅ Top Rated Plus on Upwork ✅ 100% Job Success ✅ 98 jobs completed ✅ 8,600+ hours worked ▶️ Apps I've built (all live, see my portfolio): ✅ Insight Timer: the meditation audio player with custom ambient sounds, Group Meditation, and the Courses module where teachers sell courses. Apps of the Year by TIME and Women's Health, "Happiest App in the World" by Tristan Harris. ✅ Makyee: Dubai real estate marketplace where agents list properties and buyers browse verified listings with virtual tours and online payments. ✅ Mia AI: voice-first AI companion with real-time voice conversations on OpenAI and long-term memory. ✅ Sleepytale: AI storytelling app for kids, rated 4.9. Creates personalized stories, songs and lullabies by voice. ✅ MealsDeals: pulls food offers from three delivery platforms in Qatar into one app so people can search and compare prices. ✅ TabRabbit POS: restaurant system with an admin panel and Android tablet app, handling thousands of orders a day. Offline orders and live floor-plan sync across tablets. ✅ Meditative Mind: iOS and Android apps plus the full backend for a meditation music brand with 5.75M YouTube subscribers. ✅ KissanAI / FieldFoundry: agriculture AI I co-founded, including Dhenu LLMs and an AI agent that recommends actions from real field data. ▶️ AI work: ✔ Custom AI agents that use tools and APIs to take real actions, like the field-data agent we built at FieldFoundry ✔ RAG and AI search over your own documents and data, with vector databases like Qdrant, Pinecone and pgvector ✔ Chat and voice assistants on OpenAI and Claude, inside your app or website ✔ Custom LLMs: we trained the Dhenu agriculture models at KissanAI ✔ Adding AI to an existing app without rebuilding it ✔ Conversational commerce: AI shopping assistants that answer product questions, recommend items and help customers order through chat ▶️ What I do: ✔ iOS and Android apps with React Native and Expo, from MVP to App Store and Play Store launch ✔ Shopify and e-commerce: custom Shopify apps, store integrations and mobile shopping apps ✔ Offline-first apps that keep working without internet and sync data when back online ✔ Taking over existing apps, including AI-built prototypes: audit, clean up, fix and launch ✔ Web apps and dashboards with React and Next.js ✔ Backends with Node.js, FastAPI, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Supabase and Redis ✔ Subscriptions, in-app purchases, payments and audio/video streaming ✔ AWS, GCP, Docker and CI/CD ▶️ How I work: Clear plan → milestones you can see and test → launch → support. Fixed price or hourly, daily updates, NDA welcome. I use Cursor and Claude Code to move faster, and I test on real devices before anything ships. If your project needs more hands, my team at Centricwave adds design, development and QA. 🤝 Send me your idea, spec or Figma file. I'll reply with a plan, a timeline and an estimate. ———————————————————————— 🌟 What my Upwork clients say: ———————————————————————— ★★★★★ 5.00 "Lokesh did an excellent job building our React Native iOS app. He understood the product vision quickly and delivered a clean, polished, and premium user experience." ★★★★★ 5.00 "Lokesh carried out the frontend React Native work with one swoosh, flawlessly. He properly implemented the Figma design into React Native code and followed best practices. Very impressed with his work, and will hopefully work with him again." - Fahmid Uddin, Canada ★★★★★ 5.00 "It was great working with Lokesh! He is incredible communicative, professional, and provides great work. Highly recommend him to anyone and will work with again!" - Phil, USA
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $41k
Billed in all: $167,380$167k
$3.8k in the last 6 months
Across 98 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 1% in MongoDB
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