Firoz Anwar

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South Delhi, Delhi, India12 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years of Android application development experience.
  • Led engineering teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.
  • Expertise in video technology and payment systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Media-focused Android Developer with extensive experience in software architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

Android DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentVideo TechnologyCustomizationSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

.NETAOSPAndroid DesignAndroid NDKAndroid SDKAndroid SupportAndroid TestingCSSCSS3CollaborationCore JavaCross-functional CollaborationDASHData AnalysisEclipse

About

With over 11 years of experience in architecting and developing Android applications, I bring a robust background in leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality software solutions. - Leadership Experience: Over 4+ years managing engineering teams, focusing on development, performance management, and recruitment. - Domain Expertise: Extensive experience in web-based Android apps, video technology, and payment systems. - Technical Achievements: Designed and developed a high-performance, scalable Android SDK that underpins all major Paytm verticals. - Planning and Execution: Adept at participating in technical and planning meetings, accurately estimating tasks, and proposing innovative solutions. - Android Architecture: Proficient with Android architecture components, including ViewModel, LiveData, Room, WorkManager, Navigation, and lifecycle-aware components. - Advanced Technologies: Skilled in Dagger2, RxJava, and design patterns. - Customization Expertise: Experienced in customizing AOSP source code to tailor Android OS solutions. - Diverse Mobile Technologies: Worked with a range of technologies, from Android and PhoneGap to Codename One, HTML5, and Kotlin. - Technical Proficiency: Solid knowledge of Android SDK, web services, JSON, XML, SQLite, UI design, app widgets, sensors, BLE, and Material Design. - Modern Tools: Familiar with Firebase, GCM push notifications, Facebook SDK, Google Sign-In, Twitter integration, and libraries such as Volley, Retrofit, and GSON. - UI Design: Skilled in designing layouts using View or ViewGroup classes. - Development Tools: Experienced with Eclipse, Android Studio, NetBeans, Intel XDK, and Git. - Product Delivery: Successfully delivered over 12 products, including news apps, a search app, customizations for Micromax Android TV and Karbonn devices, weather widgets, and survey apps for NGOs. - Programming Skills: Strong grasp of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), exception handling, threading, and collections. - Hands-On Development: Extensive experience with Android SDK, Eclipse IDE, and Android Studio for designing, coding, and debugging applications. - Adaptability: Proactive, open to challenging tasks, and keen on learning new technologies. - Emerging Technologies: Hands-on experience with Kotlin and Flutter, with a basic understanding of Android NDK. - Web Technologies: Deep knowledge of Android WebView and Alipay's H5 technology.

Experience

Paytm

2 roles

Senior Technical Lead

Promoted

May 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Technical Lead

Jul 2020May 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • ☛ Android Technical Lead for Mini Apps Program in Paytm.
  • ☛ Part of core engineering of Paytm.
  • ☛ Mini App Team (a.k.a H5 team) is one of core team of paytm where most of the most Paytm’s vertical use our technology (Android SDK) for their vertical / business.
  • ☛ Paytm mini App Store having more than 500+ external apps which run on this platform. Apart from that most of the internal vertical like Setting, 24x7, insurance, paytm first, events, Paytm Bank etc also use mini app technology to run their pages.
  • ☛ Worked on end to end in-house solution for web and native communication to leverage the native functionality from web page to make user experience enrich.
  • ☛ Worked on scalability, security and optimise web view experience where any app can use mini apps platform and it can leverage this technology to give similar or better user experience than native having less development effort.
  • ☛ Testing of the implemented features, performing code review.
  • ☛ Working with paytm's diffeerent entities like paytm bank, P4B, PaytmMoney, insider etc for my develop SDK integration.
  • ☛ Conduction of a security research on deeplink, web baased JS interface communication hijack
  • ☛ Working on Power and Performance measurements and optimizations
  • ☛ Collaboration with business owners, architects, API engineers and UI/UX designers to ensure delivery of production-quality designs and implementations;
Android SDKWeb TechnologiesSecurity ResearchPerformance OptimizationCollaborationAndroid Development+1

Times internet

Sr. Android Developer

Oct 2017Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida Area, India

  • ☛ Building the Video players SDK by leveraging the android’s open source ExoPlayer library, default MediaPlayer, VideoView, YouTube, DailyMotion, Veblr, Rumble etc for various products of Times Group.
  • ☛ Customized the ExoPlaye components like UI control, player playback, added customized gesture on UI like seek, volume, brightness etc.
  • ☛ Dealing with HLS, DASH, SmoothStreaming live streaming technologies using .m3u8, .rtmp approach.
  • ☛ Deployed a live quiz project on play store using HLS video streaming.
  • ☛ Rich Analytics implemented using Firebase, CleverTap and build customised In-house analytics platform for Android as SDK.
  • ☛ Various Ads integration implemented like FAN, IMA with prefetch and customised fallbacks and build an separate SDK for same.
  • ☛ Design an An app for media editors and journalist to make, record & upload videos and go live from anywhere. Optimized for different network conditions, video compression and quick upload.
  • ☛ Integrated video SDK in below mentioned Apps like Dineout, GradeUp, Economics Times, TOI, ETimes, ETMarket etc
ExoPlayerFirebaseHLSDASHVideo StreamingAndroid Development+1

Cube26 (acquired by paytm)

Sr. Android Developer

Oct 2014Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • ☛ Working around smart apps arena.
  • ☛ Customized many system applications (AOSP) for various OEMs.
  • ☛ Designing and developing advanced applications for the Android platform.
  • ☛ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • ☛ Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
  • ☛ Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.
AOSPAndroid DevelopmentCross-functional CollaborationCustomization

Kavin corporation

Software Engineer (Android Developer )

Apr 2013Jun 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore

  • ☛ Involved in development of highly complex enterprise level mobile applications for Android, iOS, J2ME.
  • ☛ Focused on collection of data, analysis, evaluation specific mobile softwares.
  • ☛ Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability.
Mobile Application DevelopmentData AnalysisUnit TestingAndroid DevelopmentSoftware Engineering

Palle technologies

Trainee Engineer - Android Developer

Sep 2012Feb 2013 · 5 mos · Bangalore

  • ☛ Undergone 3 month Android Apps Development Training from Palle technologies.
  • ☛ Worked next 3 months on various Internal Android projects of Palle technologies under Sathish Reddy .

Education

M.I.E.T. Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Children Higher Secondary School Azamgarh (U.P)

Intermediate — Science Stream(PCM)

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Jaish Kisan Inter College, Ghosi Mau (U.P)

High School — PCM

Jan 2003Jan 2004

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