Nikhil Bhutani

Co-Founder

Delhi, Delhi, India10 yrs 2 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led mobile engineering teams for high-impact applications.
  • Built scalable architectures serving millions of users.
  • Strong track record in mentoring and technical leadership.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Gaming expert with strong mobile engineering and architectural skills.

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Agile MethodologiesAnalytical SkillsBusinessBusiness AnalyticsBusiness StrategyCC++Core JavaData StructuresEntrepreneurshipFastifyGaming IndustryGitHP Quality CenterHibernate

About

Product Engineer with 10+ years of software engineering experience, including recent experience leading mobile and backend engineering teams. Demonstrated success in scaling applications serving millions of users at Gojek (1M daily orders) and FairMoney (~12M daily loan disbursals). Strong track record of mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and collaborating across functions like product, analytics and BI teams to deliver business impact. TLDR; - Core: Android, MVVM, MVI, Backend (Node js, Expressjs), Clean arch, Automation(CI/CD), PostGreSQL, Getting things done Other stuff - Blockchain, AI, Building products in Stealth. Github - https://github.com/NikhilBhutani Topmate - https://topmate.io/nikhilbhutani

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Cred

Lead Mobile Engineer

Jun 2025Present · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Working in Tokenisation team for in app and contactless payments.
  • Built Device Tokenisation SDK in KMM for RuPay Cards.
  • Built Tap&Pay Module for RuPay, integrated NPCI tap SDK for POS devices

Pocket fm

Mobile Engineering Lead | Transitioning EM

Aug 2024Mar 2025 · 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Remote

  • Led Android and iOS teams in building multi-modular clean MVI + MVVM architecture for Pocket FM audio app.
  • Mentored 7-8 mobile engineers, optimising developer bandwidth and planning product feature deliveries.
  • Architected integration of new payment service on Pocket Novel app, reducing user error rate by 15%.
  • Decreased Google fee by 20% by adhering to BCAP guidelines.

Sportstocks.app

Founder (Real Money Gaming App, Now Defunct) - attempt #1 at starting up

Jun 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • As a founder played the role of (Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Customer Support Executive, along with that hired a team of 3 freshers, 1 Android, 1 Backend, 1 designer
  • We were building a platform that is redefining the landscape of fantasy sports. The USP of the concept of virtual stocks for sports players i.e. fans can now delve deeper into the intricacies of their favorite players' performance, purchasing and trading virtual stocks based on a player's historical achievements and anticipated future successes.
  • We were able to acquire 4K users but only 40 Paid users. The % of the paid users were low, however we believe that the idea has been loved by many and has a huge potential to penetrate with the right business model and ecosystem support.
  • Amidst figuring some traction, 28% GST introduction disrupted the business model and we decided to shut.

Fairmoney

Lead Software Engineer - Android

Nov 2021Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Remote

  • Built loan application process , from Getting loan, Generating offers , Selecting an offer to tokenise a card and disbursal for Lending India. Build the app architecture scalable, had business impact about 12 million daily disbursals.
  • For Lending Nigeria, built the card tokenisation flow agnostic to card tokenisation providers, i.e. Suggested an approach, Discussed with Backend, Product w.r.t to contract and product level changes. Architected to the FE system that can be catered to multiple flows in app / module. Increased GLB by ~4 million euros.
  • Built the auto disbursal flow for the users who met certain condition, e.g. user with low risk for underwriting that made take a loan flow easier by 50%.
  • Integrated Fraud SDKs to gather data from mobile and let BE systems or ML systems at BE analyse for better underwriting.
  • Tech Front -> Worked on crash reporting and maintaining the quality of the app, Integrated code coverage reporting for individual PRs based on the code change on Github CI.

Gojek

Senior Android Engineer

Sep 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Product Engineer - Android, Worked with GoFood Team.
  • Worked on Merchant accepted flows on consumer app + merchant app, taking Merchant accepted orders to 95%.
  • Worked on improving order cancellation scenarios on consumer app that includes cancel education, cancel timer, reducing the cancellation by 80%.
  • MVI architecture Level improvements + Improved performances of serialization / deserialization by adding Moshi for GoFood modules. Improved test coverage of merchant app to 95%.
  • More on tech front - Improved notification architecture for Merchant and Driver apps to drive scalability of Backend driven notification reducing the dependency of app release on behaviour change to 80%.

Funngage

Lead Software Development Engineer(Android)

Jan 2018Apr 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Led the development of Android with team of 3 developers.
  • Built the Funngage Application from scratch to more than 50k downloads.
  • Focused on shipping functionalities and improving the UI of the Android app.
  • Understanding the sports-related business requirements and integrating it into the app.
  • Used Workmanager to post media(images/videos) offline.
  • Product strategy and execution of new features for our users.
  • Integrated Kotlin and Android architectural components

Blue dolphin (rare media company)

Android Engineer

Nov 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • ● Lead Android Development for Enterprise in Field force
  • ● Managed offline Storage to sync data with the server
  • ● Location Tracking of field force employees
  • ● Integrated NFC and BLE(Estimote Proximity Beacons) tech in the applications
  • ● Client and Field visits to get better understanding of app's performance

Accenture

Associate Software Engineer

Jan 2015Feb 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • ● Designed test scenarios for usability testing
  • ● Executed the tests, thereafter analyzed the results and then submitted this observations to the development team
  • ● Interacted with the clients to better understand the product requirements or in case the design requires any kind of modifications
  • ● Executed modules involving agile methodology

Airtel

Java Developer - Internship

Jan 2014May 2014 · 4 mos · Bharti Airtel-Gurgaon

  • ● Learned and Contributed on two main projects of Bharti Airtel, dived into the depth of java frameworks.
  • ● Created Web modules for applications, using Struts 2.0 technology.
  • ● Used : Eclipse, Oracle11g
  • ● Technology : Java Frameworks - Struts1.2, Struts2.0, Hibernate 3.0

Education

Udacity

Blockchain Nanodegree — Blockchain

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Udacity

Deep Learning Foundation Nanodegree Program — Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2017Jan 2017

Udacity

Android Developer Nanodegree — Android Application Development

Jan 2016Jan 2016

Maharshi Dayanand University

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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