Chandan Thakur

Senior Software Engineer

13 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in enterprise-grade mobility solutions.
Expertise in embedding AI workflows into mobile applications.
Proven track record in driving user engagement and growth.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with a focus on enterprise mobility solutions.

Contact

ex.chandu@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

AndroidProduct StrategySoftware DevelopmentProduct ServiceTechnical DesignTeam ManagementJava

Other Skills

AI AgentsAJAXActive DirectoryAgile Application DevelopmentAndroid DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)Biometric authenticationCCloud authenticationCoaching & MentoringCode ReviewCore JavaCrypto modulesCryptographic file systemData Structures

About

Microsoft | Ex-Samsung | NIT Jamshedpur I've been building enterprise-grade mobility solutions on Android for over a decade now. During this time, I've worked across BYOD / MDM, AD integration, DLP (Data Loss Prevention), and mobile payment, and currently working on embedding AI workflows into Microsoft Teams Android. Reach out to me to talk about embedding AI / Agentic workflows and building extensibility frameworks in a highly scalable system.

Experience

13 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Fueling the next wave of user growth and engagement on MS Teams on Mobile and companion devices.

JavaRxAndroidKotlinProject PlansTeam ManagementEngagement Platform+9

Software Engineer II

May 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Designing and building a highly scalable core extension framework for MS Teams Mobile App and enabling partners to build reusable and plug-and-play workflows into MS Teams and other M365 Mobile Apps.

Product ServiceSoftware DesignSoftware DevelopmentDomain ExperienceTechnical DesignReliability

Samsung electronics

4 roles

Senior Lead Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Samsung Pay
Planning, design, development and deployment of features & module in Samsung Pay and Preloaded Pay Stub on over 30+ models of mid range Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
Designed and implemented biometric, cloud authentication, swift wallet onboarding and transaction of Samsung Pay for low end Samsung Phones using RxJava for driving up registrations in India effectively by 11x .
Work closely with Product Management to device methods for efficiently gaining RUs (Registered Users) and maintaining high MAU and DAU using engineering excellence.
Requirement gathering and analysis, feasibility, effort estimation and scalability planning for Samsung Pay service on mid range phones.
Trained and mentored junior engineers on Samsung Pay Mini Core App design and guided them on new feature implementation, code and design reviews.

Project PlansProduct ServiceDomain ExperienceTechnical DesignProduct Strategy

Lead Engineer

Jan 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

Samsung Pay and Samsung Pay Mini (Annual Award Winners of Best Project 2017)
Designed and implemented crypto and authentication modules for Samsung Pay Mini devices.
Integrated localized modules and India specific wallets - Paytm and Mobikwik
Lifecycle management of the overall service - VOC/market issue resolutions , assessed vulnerabilities and attack surface, ensuring quality, security and robustness for submitted code.
Trained batch of fresh graduate engineers and interns on Samsung Pay Architecture and trained them on design, source code and processes.
Conducted performance analysis and improvisation from time to time and optimized app for OS upgrade, UX changes, NPCI guidelines and other fixes.
Mentored interns for creation of Ad-hoc ideas and Proof of concepts of brainstormed ideas

Team ManagementProduct ServiceDomain ExperienceTechnical DesignCode Review

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Samsung KNOX - Content Solutions and Data Privacy
Right Management and Mobile Device Management Solutions based on Active Directory Infrastructure
Data Loss Prevention and IRM.
Design and development of Data Leak Prevention framework to protect of Data At Rest (DAR) and Data In Use (DIU) on Samsung's enterprise smartphone and tablets ; integration with various IRM providers (MS/Adobe/EMC2) on the KNOX to protect enterprise documents beyond the firewalls of the Enterprise.

Technical Design

Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Samsung KNOX - Enterprise Authentication
Responsible for research and prototyping of new enterprise mobility solutions for Samsung KNOX involving but not limited to :
On-premise and cloud based authentication (Kerberos, SAML, OAUTH 2.0 / OpenID Connect) for SaaS and WebApps
Involved in development of Single Sign-On(SSO) and Zero Sign-On(ZSO) for Samsung KNOX
Active Directory, LDAP, SMB, Windows Integrated Authentication based mobility solutions for KNOX for B2B customers

Virtusa

Engineer - Technology

Dec 2012 – Jul 2013 · 7 mos

was responsible for development and maintenance of Java based Middleware (ESB-Mule) for BSS and self-care portal of British Telecom's "Everything Everywhere" brand
leaded a team in design, development and deployment of virtusa's internal forum portal "VForum" based on Java Spring MVC with MySQL Db as a part of training completion project.

JavaSPRMule ESBSQLSoftware Development