Nov 2024 – Apr 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Apr 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Hybrid

• Owning consumers & creators facing features of ShareChat and Moj across server and mobile
• Built Ads, Subscriptions & Virtual Gifting businesses from scratch
• Reduced server costs by 60% in 6 months through major architectural optimisations
• Defined the technological vision around performance management, training & coaching of the team.
• Managed relationships with Google Cloud, Android Developer Relations, Firebase, Atlassian, Signadot, Headspin, among others.

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hybrid

• Led the mobile, full-stack & game dev teams in ShareChat, Moj and Jeet11, while providing technical vision and hands-on collaboration with product managers & designers
• Created Shutter, an in-house camera SDK competing with the likes of Snap to enable trending filters & lenses for casual content creators
• Built Lego, a full-stack widgetisation framework to support dynamic UI configurations for in-house enterprise tooling, theming of the mobile apps and showcasing top trending hyperlocal content
• Introduced CI/CD in mobile using TeamCity, Github Actions & CodeMagic with features like Build Caching for faster Android builds, nightly benchmarking & automation test runs, and automated weekly deployments to Play Store & App Store.
• Led key projects on Android to reduce app launch time from 12s to 8s and app size from 119MB to 40MB
• Scaled the mobile & web teams by conducting 300+ hiring manager interviews from 50 to 180 members including 12+ engineering managers & architects reporting directly to me

Apr 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Created a process-oriented high-efficiency team with world-class skills for mobile app development
• Performed rigorous code reviews, 1-1 feedback sessions & tech talks
• Overhauled the entire experience to native iOS from web-like
• Implemented Product Discovery with AR, Payments, Prescriptions for iOS app

Jan 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Increased the crash-free rate of the Android app from 92.7% to 99.6%
• Overhauled the android app's entire experience from Web-like to Material Design
• Implemented the Orders Management, Payments, Prescriptions & Product Discovery features

Jun 2012 – Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Started with a best selling iphone camera app, Zitrr (reached 2M downloads)
• Created exciting apps for the likes of Intel, HP, Samsung, GroupM, Zee, Olacabs, Lenskart, MindTickle and others
• Also, started the first mobile-only beauty and wellness app in India, Hyve (acquired by Stylofie)

Jun 2011 – May 2012 · 11 mos · Noida, India

• Worked on verification of different aspects of ARM based Microcontrollers
• Verified RTLs of various Communication Protocols like Ethernet, UART, SCI, LIN, I2C, Memories, etc.
• Used various scripting languages like Perl, Shell, Tcl and others for automation of Testbench Creation, Workspace creation, Performance Data Extraction, etc.