Mar 2021 – Jul 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Leadership and Team Management
• Built and led the mobile development team to successfully launch the Loans product from scratch, architecting seamless integrations with two banking partners
• Managed the App’s Help and Support team, ensuring streamlined operations and customer satisfaction.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive hiring guidelines and a rigorous interview process. Additionally, provided ongoing mentorship to the mobile team through continuous code reviews, architectural discussions, and strategic guidance.
• Initiated and drove architecture forum with architects across Groww's technology division, conducting bi-weekly meetings to devise long-term architectural strategies and address current technical challenges. Also proposed a thorough SDLC review process across the organization.
• Technical Architecture and Optimizations
• Authored a comprehensive analysis identifying gaps in the existing React Native + Kotlin stack, and explored Flutter as a potential alternative. Defined critical metrics for the long-term mobile tech stack and helped formulate a detailed migration plan to Kotlin.
• Helped architect in-house solutions and conducted architectural design reviews for major app projects like Dynamic Bottom Navigation bar, Multiple app SDKs, RN enhancements, code merger, Brownfield Navigation re-architecture, State management abstraction, etc.
• Engineered intelligent WebViews with a 3-layered pre-loading and caching solution, reducing load times by 3s on Android.
• Designed a scalable proto schema to standardize over 400 events across the app.
• Architected a solution for silent push notifications to enable dot trails without API calls on Groww homepage. The silent PNs infrastructure setup supports future push-based configuration updates and uninstall tracking.
• Explored React Native Fragment and helped integrate Groww Pay & Loans to it, improving user experience

Oct 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led the charter for android Vitals improvement and App size reduction, with a 30%+ reduction in app launch time & app size to <15 MB
• Architected the backend for Spotlight video destination along with leading development efforts on app
• Implemented a common navigation framework, with customisable tabbed navigation for Myntra iOS and android apps
• Helped architect layout engine: a template based framework to standardise layouts across app using Myntra Design language
• Technologies worked on: React Native, Android, Golang, MongoDB

Oct 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs

• Rearchitected Myntra app codebase resulting in a snappier app experience and improved code reuse across iOS and android
• Co architected and developed Myntra Shopping Groups' backend consisting of multiple moving parts and integrations across services -> Cart, Checkout, Web, Payments, OMS & BI.
• Drove engineering initiatives to make high revenue days successful, supporting revenue targets and scale of 500k+ concurrent users.
• Designed an animation framework to translate animations over any app screen, with customisable configurations.
• Technologies worked on: React Native, Android, Golang, Aerospike

Jan 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Worked across different projects and wide range of technologies. Listing some of them:
• Fashioned current Myntra app porting multiple native sub-applications to React Native, including but not limited to Feed, Shots, Shopping Groups & Navigation drawers across Android & iOS apps
• Designed & developed a state based User Onboarding/Retention system backend consisting of multiple integrations which allowed addition of multiple feed cards to a user bucket, along with specifying a set of criteria(Platform, gender, location, install date, etc.)
• Remodelled current app to improve slow Network experience, added visually interactive cards, standardised instrumentation, fixed multiple memory leaks and made multiple other optimisations in app
• Explored Windows Phone, Android wear & Myo band development
• Technologies worked on: React Native, Native Android, iOS, Python, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, NodeJS

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mos

• Drove the engagement by developing look good features in Myntra android application:
• Built several features on Myntra Android app including Collections, User Profile, Shots & StyleForum
• Added feed and timeline cards for User Generated Content to drive commerce through the means of followers & influencers, giving a huge boost to brands allowing them to showcase products in a user friendly manner
• Worked on Feed Componentization, which gave a performance boost to home feed whilst providing a way of creating new cards on the fly
• Technologies worked on: Native Android, React Native

Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Mobile Application Design/Development along with Web & Platform development:
• Designed and developed several cross platform hybrid mobile applications for Android, iOS and Windows Phone
• Linked applications to Native5 console facilitating user management and providing essential insights like number of installations and page views
• Contributed in development of Native5 API console which facilitates cross platform application development with features such as 1 click deployment, analytics, user management and debugging
• Organised hackathon in Microsoft Accelerator premises and helped developers get started on platform
• Developed and Managed Native5 website from ground up
• Designed print advertisements and product concept designs
• Technologies used: Cordova, Javascript, jQuery, HTML/CSS, Native Android, iOS, PHP/MySQL, Adobe Photoshop