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Anup Cowkur

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering teams for apps with millions of downloads.
  • Founded mobile engineering teams and improved UX standards.
  • Achieved high ratings for multiple mobile applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and B2C mobile application development expert.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipUser Experience (ux)Business Objects Data Integrator

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAndroid SDKAndroid StudioC#DockerEclipseF#FlutterGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)JavaJavaScriptKotlinKubernetes

Experience

Measure

Co-Founder and CTO

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Groww, india

Director of Engineering

Apr 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Led people, process and technology for mobile platform, search platform , referrals and rewards platform and communications platform with a team of 70+ developers and 8 engineering managers
  • Managed all aspects of design and delivery of Groww stocks and mutual funds app which has 10+ million downloads
JavaAndroid DevelopmentWebSocketiOS DevelopmentKubernetesCross-functional Team Leadership+4

Gojek

Head of Engineering

Oct 2016Jan 2022 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Was an early employee (engineer number ~40) in Southeast Asia's biggest startup that serves more than 35 million customers processing more than 3 million orders per day.
  • Worked in mobile platform team as a senior engineer and led projects to implement coding standards, testing and performance benchmarking.
  • Led the mobile ride hailing app team and grew the team from 2 to 10 developers.
  • Led the redesign + rewrite of the ride hailing app working in close collaboration with the design team to transform the look and feel of Gojek.
  • Founded the UX engineering team to develop and standardise Gojek's design system across 20 different products. Grew the team from 2 to 15 engineers including a native Android team, iOS team and a Frontend Web team and served as Head of Engineering for UX Engineering.
  • Guided architecture and decisions along with key senior engineers across different tech stacks addressing scalability, availability and performance.
  • Succeeded in obtaining a 4.4 star rating and 100+ million downloads
JavaAndroid DevelopmentRedisRxJavaFlutteriOS Development+7

Cleartax india

Tech Lead

Dec 2015Aug 2016 · 8 mos · Bangalore

  • Founded the mobile engineering team with 2 college grads and mentored them.
  • Built India's first mobile tax filing app with a lot of focus on design and UX to make the data input heavy tax filing process as seamless as possible on a mobile device.
  • Set a record as India's highest used tax filing app with 4.8 star rating and 500K+ downloads
JavaAndroid DevelopmentRxJavaF#Cross-functional Team LeadershipC#+2

Doist

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Jun 2015Sep 2015 · 3 mos

  • Worked on the popular Todoist app to help implement a new redesign based on material design.
  • Implemented improvements to Todoist's natural language input processing engine.
  • Helped achieve a 4.5 star rating for an app with 10+ million downloads.
JavaAndroid DevelopmentRxJavaPython (Programming Language)REST APIsJavaScript

Deviantart, inc.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Sep 2014Apr 2015 · 7 mos

  • Built DeviantArt's first mobile app in a team of 4 engineers.
  • Implemented various performance optimisations for a very image heavy app
  • Shipped the first app of one of the internet's oldest communities with a rating of 4.5 stars and 5+ million downloads
JavaAndroid DevelopmentREST APIsPerformance TuningMemory ManagementUser Experience (UX)

Dark industries ltd.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Apr 2014Aug 2014 · 4 mos

  • Second dev hire at a small app development agency
  • Worked on various projects with clients in personal messaging, social media and fantasy sports areas
  • Acqui-hired by Novoda
JavaAndroid DevelopmentREST APIs

Y media labs

Software Engineer

Apr 2012Mar 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Worked as an early employee at a boutique app design and development agency
  • Worked on several projects such as school management systems, fitness tracking applications and even Sesame Street muppets.
  • Scaled the mobile engineering organisation from 4 to 20 developers.
JavaAndroid DevelopmentREST APIs

Accenture

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2011Mar 2012 · 8 mos

  • Worked as a Data engineer on ETL systems
  • Helped build pipelines to aggregate and transform large scale data for a large national bank
  • Worked on SAP systems and BODI in particular
JavaBusiness Objects Data Integrator

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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