Gaurav Bhandarkar

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

8 years of experience in Android application development.
Expert in performance optimization and user experience design.
Created a robust in-house video editor tool for popular apps.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C Android Development expert with a strong focus on performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentPerformance Optimization

Other Skills

Android JetpackAndroid LintAndroid Performance OptimizationAndroid ProfilerCC (Programming Language)Clean ArchitectureCrashlyticsData StructuresExoplayerFFmpegFabricFfmpegFirebaseGithub

About

Software Engineer specializing in Android with an eye for good design and user experience motivated to create top-notch applications. 8 years of experience in designing, developing, maintaining efficient and performant Android Applications. Basic understanding of Xcode and hands-on experience in maintaining an iOS application.

Experience

Sharechat

3 roles

Staff Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Technical Lead - Android

Oct 2022 – Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo

SDE - 2 (Android)

May 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Performance optimization around Slow Rendering, Frozen Frame Issues, reducing Time to Initial Display and Time to Full Display for multiple screens within the project.
Created an in-house Video Editor tool (library) from scratch. Features include various video editing operations like trim, merge, speed, aspect ratio, text effects, music effects, filters, stickers etc. The library is integrated into both the Apps, ShareChat and Moj.
The library is built in MVI architecture. Tools include FFmpeg, MediaAPIs, Exoplayer etc. To handle complicated UI and processing operations, the library is built such that it is performant across a variety of devices and Operating systems and is memory efficient.

FFmpegMediaAPIsExoplayerMVI architecturePerformance optimizationAndroid Development+1

Coupondunia

3 roles

Associate Lead Engineer - Android

Apr 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos

Led the redesign of major components of the CouponDunia Android App using MVVM architecture.
Identified issues in the app using tools like Android Profiler, Systrace, Perfetto, Android Lint etc and improved the performance of the app by a significant factor, also maintained a crash-free of 99.9%.
Reduced the APK as well as the in device storage size of the App by 40%.
Migrated major Modules of the app in Kotlin
Led the development of CouponDunia's Shopping Assistant using Accessibility service.
Maintained the iOS App and did releases for necessary features and bug fixes.

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

- Built Saver (an SDK for The Times of India app) from scratch, which gives personalized offers to users from their preferred merchants and categories.