Ankit Maheswari

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Increased user conversions by integrating SSO flow.
Architected dynamic UI framework improving release cycles by 20%.
Mentored engineers and championed best coding practices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused Android Developer with strong leadership and SDK development skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Team LeadershipAndroid DevelopmentTechnology RoadmappingSdk Development

Other Skills

Agile ScrumAnalytical SkillsAndroid StudioAndroid UICommunication SkillsContinuous Integration (CI)CrashlyticsData AnalysisDebuggingFirebaseGitGoogle MapsGoogle Maps APIGoogle Material DesignGoogle Places

About

As a Lead Software Engineer at PhonePe with over three years of experience, I collaborate across Product, Design, Business, Analytics, Marketing, and Engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions. My expertise includes technology roadmapping, team leadership, and continuous integration, enabling the successful launch of features like the Referral system, dynamic UI frameworks, and in-app search experiences. My work focuses on driving user engagement and operational efficiency, as demonstrated by increasing user conversions, enhancing product discoverability, and improving delivery accuracy. I am committed to advancing technology-driven innovation and building solutions that solve complex challenges.

Experience

Phonepe

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Served as the primary interface for the Pincode app, aligning priorities and driving initiatives across Product, Design, Business, Analytics, Marketing, and engineering teams
Raised login success rate to 98% by integrating SSO flow, streamlining onboarding and driving higher
conversion
Increased daily new users by 20% and boosted DAU after designing and launching the Referral feature for Pincode
Architected a dynamic UI framework (widgetX) to enable real-time discovery flow updates, accelerating
release cycles by 20%
Enhanced product discoverability and conversion, with 70% of cart additions driven by the new in-app search experience
Improved delivery accuracy and CSAT score by 15% through Google Maps–powered address addition
Reduced release effort and code maintenance by engineering a shared codebase supporting both Pincode and Pincode Lit apps
Enhanced code quality and developer productivity by driving adoption of unit and integration testing, clean coding standards, and integrating the Bazooka release/build management system, resulting in 60% unit test coverage and 10% productivity improvement
Maintained a 99.5% crash-free rate and minimised recurrent incidents by proactively resolving issues reported via Crashlytics, Play Console, and internal forums
Mentored 5 engineers, championed best coding practices, and led hiring initiatives, strengthening team
capability and culture

Continuous Integration (CI)Technology RoadmappingTeam LeadershipSDK developmentSoftware Project ManagementJetpack Compose+17

Lookout

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Lead for the Mobile Client SDK Team - responsible for planning, designing, architecture, and developing Lookout's SDK projects.
Individual contributor to the Android platform code at Lookout which powers security on 100 Million+ devices via the Enterprise App, Consumer App and Security SDK.
Performed the duties of an Agile Scrum master for a team of 15 members including software developers, quality engineers, and product managers.

SDK developmentAgile ScrumAndroid Development

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Shuttl

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Sep 2019 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

Responsible for the end-to-end ownership of the Shuttl Android Application hosted on play store, which is the core consumer-facing product of the company.
Developed and designed Shuttl Driver Android Application and a few more utility applications which helped automate various processes required by the operations team.
Experienced in strategic decision-making required for the complete cycle of software development, which includes analyzing the requirements, proposing a solution, developing the software, and releasing to the end users smoothly. Scalability of the Framework, Reusability of Code and good User Experience were areas of focus in my work.
Outside of work I participated in hackathons and meetups hosted internally and by other companies.

Android DevelopmentSoftware Development LifecycleUser Experience Design

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

Summer Intern

May 2014 – Jun 2014 · 1 mo · Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

It was a summer project at IIT Kanpur under the guidance of Prof. Amitabha Mukherjee, Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kanpur. The project was based on a famous problem of 'Narrow Corridors' in Robot Motion Planning. The project was to develop an efficient technique to detect narrow corridors in the workspace of the robot and find paths through the narrow corridor.