Sep 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Feb 2014 – Sep 2023 · 9 yrs 7 mos

• Scaled up Indus OS from inception to reach 100 Million device activations. Set out with building a customised version of Android OS for regional users. Currently powering system apps across millions of devices in India.
• Setting the engineering direction of the entire organisation. Maintaining high standards for the entire team so as to keep the team motivated to deliver exciting goals within tough timelines.
• Setup and managing teams across Android OS, highly scalable backends & data science.

Dec 2008 – Dec 2015 · 7 yrs

• Multi Platform Expertise - Development expertise and in depth understanding across iOS, Android, Blackberry and other mobile platforms and OSes. Ventured into mobile by building image processing algorithms like object detection to work on low processing power & memory based mobile platforms like Java ME. Later diversified into smartphone platforms
• Android OS firmwares - Developed & built Android OS firmwares for market ready mobile phones enhancing my knowledge of the entire mobile software stack ranging from embedded level device drivers & kernel libraries to high level app development
• Business Needs → Technical Requirements & Structure
• Understood business needs and translated those into technical products as well as identified what technology products can be used of the shelf for achieving the desired functionality
• Architecting large scale solutions - Architected large projects which require high scalability with multiple apps & components - iphone apps, android apps, web portal, mobile web, video streaming with CDN integration, ad networks, analytics & cloud deployment
• Varied technologies - Technology exposure across VoIP systems like SIP, high quality media delivery on mobile using CDNs and streaming protocols, TTS & speech recognition, image processing, networking protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SSL/TLS & XMPP, graphics processing using OpenGL, HTML5 based browser technologies, cloud technologies & services in mobile apps & arising technologies like API Management, security algorithms like AES, RSA etc.
• Critical High Performance Systems - Built enterprise class systems like Mobile Trading with high performance data delivery of financially critical market data
• New Technology Strategies - Created & established new development methodologies & techniques to enhance development quality and timelines. Designed new libraries, frameworks for faster development. Also trained the team on the efficient use of these strategies

Jul 2008 – Oct 2008 · 3 mos

• Embedded applications over audio processing for the XTensa platform