Bal sikandar yadav

CEO

Delhi, India10 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Scaled gaming platform to 25K+ DAU in 4 months.
  • Grew Mobile team from 5 to 15 engineers.
  • Architected modular mobile platforms for cross-app scalability.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Engineering Leader with expertise in Gaming and FinTech.

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Skills

Core Skills

React NativeAndroid DevelopmentJava

Other Skills

AndroidAndroid SDKEngineering ManagementKotlinLeadershipMVIMobile ApplicationsModel-View-Presenter (MVP)Software ArchitectureSystem ArchitectureTeam LeadershipTypeScriptUnit Testing

About

Engineering Manager (aspiring) & Technical Lead with 10+ years in mobile engineering — 7.5+ years in Android (Kotlin, Jetpack, MVVM/MVI) and 3+ years in React Native/Android at scale. Experienced in architecting cross-platform mobile solutions (React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform/KMP, CMP) to accelerate feature delivery and maintain high app quality — with impact across unicorns like Zupee, CarWale(CarTrade), and Twin Health. ⚡ Key impact: • Scaled a new gaming platform from concept → 25K+ DAU in just 4 months, driving 3× paid play growth and 40%+ uplift in engagement. • Grew and led a high-performing Mobile team from 5 → 15 engineers — hiring, mentoring, and fostering a culture of technical ownership, testing, and fast, reliable delivery. • Architected modular mobile platforms and reusable SDKs (chat / video / voice) powering multiple apps (patient, doctor & agent), enabling cross-app scalability. • Raised app stability from 98% → 99.8% crash-free and cut ANRs/hangs by 50% through performance profiling, memory optimizations, and proactive monitoring. • Delivered products end-to-end: MVPs in <2 months, scalable payment systems from thousands → millions of users, and modernized legacy apps with CI/CD, SonarQube, clean architecture, and KMP/CMP modules for shared code. 💼 Past work spans fast-paced startups across Gaming, FinTech, HealthTech, Automotive, and Ride-Hailing — shipping apps with millions of users. 🏅 Recognitions & community: • Published articles in MindOrks (Android’s largest dev publication) • Won “Best Debutant”, “Developer of the Month”, and Hackathon awards at OkCredit • Frequent mentor, consultant, and technical advisor for early-stage startups 🎯 Philosophy: Build fast, stable, user-delighting apps with strong engineering culture — “move fast without breaking things”. Would you like me to create a LinkedIn “About” section version of this (optimised for tone and formatting within 2,600 characters)?

Experience

Zupee

Technical lead

Jul 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hybrid

  • Scaled a new gaming platform from concept → 25K+ DAU in 4 months, architecting a high-performance modular Android/React Native stack.
  • Grew and led the Consumer Games Mobile team from 5 → 15 engineers — hiring, mentoring, and fostering technical ownership & high release quality.
  • Launched hit games (Tez Rummy, LudoNX, Ludo Supreme uplift +40%, SNL ~40% of total play), driving 20%+ gameplay growth & 3× paid play uplift.
  • Raised app stability to 99.8% crash-free, cut ANRs/hangs by 50%, and optimized sessions → +20% playtime & +25% daily plays.
  • Introduced dev-led testing & reviews, cutting QA bugs 70% and improving release confidence.
Team LeadershipSystem ArchitectureLeadershipTypeScriptAndroidReact Native+2

Twin health

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2021Jun 2022 · 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

  • Architected & built a communications SDK (chat / video / voice) powering patient, doctor, and agent apps, enabling cross-app reuse & faster feature delivery.
  • Led the communications POD end-to-end — from design & security to reliable real-time interactions.
System ArchitectureJavaAndroid Development

Shuttl

Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Oct 2020Jul 2021 · 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Launched Intercity Ride Booking MVP Web App from scratch in 1.5 months → 1K+ bookings in 15 days, accelerating go-to-market validation.
  • Owned & built the Driver App for auto drivers from scratch using MVVM architecture, enabling smooth onboarding & reliable trip management.
JavaTypeScriptAndroid Development

Okcredit

Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Jul 2019Sep 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Scaled merchant payments from thousands to million of users, improving reliability & retention.
  • Re-architected the payments module with MVI + RxJava, making it cleaner & more maintainable.
  • Increased unit test coverage to 70%+, reducing production bugs & improving release confidence.
Software ArchitectureMVIUnit TestingJavaAndroid Development

Carwale

2 roles

Team lead Android at CarWale

Promoted

Sep 2018Jul 2019 · 10 mos · Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Led and grew a 5-member Android team, driving feature delivery speed and engineering quality.
  • Improved notification delivery on challenging Chinese OEM devices, increasing reach & engagement.
  • Set up CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, cutting manual release effort and reducing release failures.
  • Introduced SonarQube & code quality gates, reducing duplication and anomalies across the codebase.
  • Championed unit testing culture → significantly increased coverage & reduced production bugs.
  • Upgraded analytics stack (GA → Firebase Analytics; Fabric → Firebase Crashlytics), improving insights and stability tracking.
  • Provided technical direction & architecture reviews, aligning engineering decisions with product needs and business KPIs.
Team LeadershipAndroid SDKModel-View-Presenter (MVP)JavaTypeScriptAndroid Development+1

Senior Android Developer

Jan 2018Sep 2018 · 8 mos · Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

  • Delivered major user-facing features using Kotlin & modern Android patterns.
  • Built “Robin” — an open-source application testing library, improving developer productivity and internal QA.
  • Wrote a Medium article on app vitals & stability, sharing learnings and improving team focus on performance metrics.
  • Enhanced app design & architecture, improving maintainability and feature velocity.
  • Reduced ANRs & crashes by profiling and optimizing key flows.
  • Explored React Native & Flutter for cross-platform development to validate new approaches.
JavaAndroid Development

Bobble keyboard

Android developer

Aug 2016Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Worked with All Android & Google APIs and have used several third party libraries for Networking, Database operations and Image processing.
  • Worked with MVP/MVC architectures and Java Design-patterns.
  • Multithreading for performance improvement.
  • Debug Features - Developed features to enable and empower developers and other team members to observe, debug and report issues.
  • Reduced crash rate and developed a library to capture and report crashes while development.
  • Worked on Android IME(Keyboard) and developed several features to user interests.
  • On time delivery of features.
  • Focused on clean code architectures, code redability and code documentation.
  • Worked with UI/UX team, Research team and other teams to deliver enrich features.
  • Worked with multiple image & Gif processing library for faster and smooth loading of resources, enabled caching to save user data.
  • Profiling app for memory and battery consumption optimisations.
  • Improved frame drops and ANRs.
  • Reduced Apk size.
  • Worked on Bobble(SDK) to deliver to our partners.
Java

Sisgain

Android Developer(Intern)

Jul 2015Aug 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Sector-2

  • Worked as a team lead.
  • Worked closely with UI/UX and backend team for quick implementation and delivery of features.
  • Worked on Google Location and Map API for a cab application.
  • Worked on 5-6 different client applications in my work period including an app with Video/Voice calling feature using OpenTok SDK.
Java

Education

Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Information Technology

Jan 2011Jan 2015

Central Board of Secondary Education

high school — Senior School

Jan 2008Jan 2010

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