Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

Mar 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Leading the Mobile Android and iOS division at Kaara.
• Developed architecture for an intelligent e-learning platform for autistic children for Android and iOS. Leveraged advanced caching techniques, on-device ML and Camera pipelines for robust performance.
• Reduced development efforts by 40% by enabling cross platform KMM for business logic sharing.
• Developed an offline first architecture to make the app more robust for slow network markets.

Jan 2023 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Remote

• Worked as an IC to build the Android tech stack from scratch with MVI ViewModel architecture, Kotlin, Dagger2 and Jetpack Compose and scaled it with feature flagging to support 100k users.
• Developed an in-house Mobile Graphics & Camera AI pipeline for content creation on Android and iOS which enabled creation of NFTs worth over 200k USD.
• Setup A/B experimentation framework with firebase experimentation and setup the playstore release process for Android with test users and beta tester support.
• Setup a CI/CD pipeline to release the Android SDK with Github packages, Jenkins and Github Actions.
• Responsible for maintaining the performance and quality of Android applications. Implemented smart thread pausing functionality to reduce battery consumption by 30%.
• Worked on Android dynamic delivery feature to reduce app size by 60%.
• Collaborating with the iOS, Design, Backend and Marketing team to build product roadmap in Agile manner.
• Experimented with Kotlin Multi Platform to determine feasibility for business logic sharing.
• Built a POC to successfully integrate Image upscaling model using Real CUGAN on Android devices with NCNN which eliminated the backend api need and reduced cost to $0.
• Deployed Facebook Llama2 models on GCP and built backend APIs that reduced our cost by 30%.
• Developed Instant Avatar feature for Android and iOS that achieved 80% qualitative parity with MidJourney.
• Implemented an image generation pipeline and exposed backend apis that generated images in less than 2sec.

Apr 2022 – Jan 2023 · 9 mos · India

• Led a team of 10+ developers in developing a mobile-first 3D Augmented Reality engine from ground up for Android and iOS that rivaled Rizzle, Snapchat with a 70% parity in feature set.
• Developed Camera Tech, Image Editor and Motion Video features for Android with template support that served 100M users across Sharechat and Moj applications.
• Responsible for AR engine integration across Android, iOS and mac and collaborated with Product, Design, Backend teams to plan product roadmap and execution strategy.
• Developed C++ base to integrate Google Media Pipe AI library with Android Camera Engine to support Computer vision algorithms and models like Selfie segmentation, Hand gesture recognition, Face filters, Beauty makeup features with performance metrics touching 100+ FPS on mobile.
• Setup a CI/CD pipeline to release Augmented reality SDK as a Gradle library for Android that reduced integration time by 50%.
• Introduced Trunk based development and feature flagging to support monolith project structure that helped in increasing developer code speed by 60% and reduced bugs count per member by 20%.
• Turned Android AR Engine SDK into Dynamic app module to reduce Sharechat & Moj app size.

Jun 2021 – May 2022 · 11 mos · India

• Developed Mobile first 3D Graphics and AR Engine in C++, Android NDK,SDK, OpenGL.
• Enabling 3D,2D and photo filters on any image stream including Camera, Video and still images.

Aug 2020 – Jun 2021 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked in the Android R&D Team of Airtel Digital labs to research smarter and faster camera based data extraction solutions for the Android platform.
• Implemented Compression and cropping algorithm for YUV camera frames to enhance OCR speed for Android camera by 30% and reduced captured frame size by 20% with smart cropping.
• Implemented architecture to support seamless integration of biometric devices Android SDKs.
• Worked on implementing server driven UI for Android that shortened our release cycle by 30%.
• Responsible for developing, maintaining and publishing core Camera & AI SDK libraries for use in Airtel apps.

Jul 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Responsible for handling the development of the Android platform, maintaining quality, and assuring smooth release process with 1M+ users.
• Built Android platform to host 30+ Unity games and wrote interface layer to implement scoring mechanism and payment gateways on Android codebase to allow scalability in terms of adding new games on platform.
• Developed a modular Android Animation System that could be plugged and played on any View that reduced our animation development time by 50%.
• Built a short video platform YOVO that hosted a video feed and video creation camera tech that supported 1M+ users with less than 1% crash rate.
• Migrated application from MVP to MVVM architecture which reduced lines of code (LOC) per feature by 20%.

Aug 2015 – Jan 2016 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Responsible for managing a team of 30+ Content Writers.
• Collaborated with both Bluegape and Content writers to achieve the weekly content production target.
• Responsible for motivating writers and resolving conflicts on regular basis to achieve the targets.