Feb 2025 – Sep 2025 · 7 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Jan 2024 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Solving Client App Architecture & Dev Experience Problems for the Bytedance US org

Apr 2021 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · West Hollywood, California, United States

• Lead App Performance Working Group for the Android Guild of 60+ FTEs
• Reduced OOMs and ANRs by 50%
• Increased Selfie Verified DAU by 10%
• Lead 0 to 1 exeuction for flagship features like Selfie Verification, ID Verification and Photo Verified Chat.

Jan 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Nov 2018 – Dec 2018 · 1 mo

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr

Nov 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr

Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 · 4 mos

• * Mentored two students on two android projects for Mifos Initiative.

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Dec 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Noida Area, India

• Developed the Third Version of "inShorts" Android Application.
• Setup the foundation of UI Testing Framework using espresso.
• Helping over 3 Million users update themselves in the shortest possible time, daily.
• Wrote an internal analytics app to track activities of the editorial team helping managers take data backed decisions related to content delivery.
• Wrote an app that delivered notifications from various news apps to an editor's phone without having to install those apps. This allowed people to get rid of the hassle to install multiple news apps to keep a track of what is going around.

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Project Title: Add support for XMPP Serverless Messaging (XEP-174) to Smack.
• • Added an API in Smack to allow developers of Java & Android clients to detect users' presence on the local network.
• • Worked with Low-Level Networking APIs in Java
• • Converted the previous implementation from Thread based approach to Java NIO based approach.

Dec 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Google Code-in (GCI) is a contest for pre-university students (e.g., high school and secondary school students) with the goal of encouraging young people to participate in open source. We work with open source organizations, each of whom will provide a list of tasks to be completed by student contestants. Tasks can be anything an organization needs help with, from bug fixes, to writing code, to user experience research, to writing documentation. The contest takes place entirely online.
• As a mentor my responsibilities were :
• • To create Tasks with varying difficulty for students across the globe.
• • To answer queries of students related to the tasks they claim.
• • To review the Pull Requests and the Code submitted by the students.
• • To guide them on various topics that block a them while performing a task.

Sep 2014 – Apr 2015 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• My Responsibilities included:
• • Strategising Technical Operations and Product Development.
• • Development of Android Application
• • Development of Web Application
• • Talent Acquisition - Technology
• • Automating tasks using Python and Shell Scripting (Like Image Compression, Image Format Conversion, Image Thumbnail Generation)
• • Development of a New Robust Restful Web API using Laravel Framework for PHP. This would enable a seamless experience of SeekSherpa across iOS, Android and Web.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• As a Tech Evangelist I spruced up the Android Application called SeekSherpa.
• • Improved UI/UX of the application.
• • Implemented complex Designs with the help of Open Source Third Party Libraries.
• • Implemented Image Caching to improve memory and bandwidth consumption.
• • Developed a few new features like Experience Exploration on Google Maps, Instant Booking with Payment Gateway integration etc.
• • Bootstrapped the Web-App of Seeksherpa, that'll enable users to browse through the experiences and book them online from the browser.

Apr 2014 – Aug 2014 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Developed an Open Source Android Application that implements an already existing REST based Mifos API. The project was aimed to:
• • Enable field officers to interact with Client Data from a Handheld Device(Mobile/Tablet) running Android OS.
• • Enable field officers to interact with Collection Sheets using the app.
• • Enable field officers to work with the app without network connectivity.
• • Gave Two Tech-Talks at JIIT, Noida-62 and Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi on "How to use open source android libraries to increase productivity while developing android applications and tips for getting into Google Summer of Code"
• • Worked closely with mentors around the globe (USA, Netherlands, Germany, India) - remotely. They had experience in varied domains such as Software Architecture, Software Development, Full Stack Development, Automation Testing etc.

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Developed an Android Application called RoboAlerts. It is a high utility mobile application that signals automated alerts at every price move, in all chosen stocks or commodities.
• • Implemented different types of Notifications
• • Integrated TTS Engine to notify users about Stock names & prices without touching the phone.
• • Implemented Facebook like ChatHead Notifications in the app.
• • Implemented on-device notification caching using SQLite Databases

Aug 2013 – Oct 2013 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

• Developed the Android Application "NewsInShorts"
• • Consumed REST based API
• • Implemented a Card-Stack Based Animation of the News Articles
• • Implemented Image Caching for decreasing data-pack consumption of users and making the app faster.

Feb 2013 – Mar 2013 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Rlabz edutech is an educational research service provider, training and consultancy based company.
• I worked as a student coordinator for the workshops that took place in my college campus.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr

• As a freelance developer I did numerous projects in varied domains like Education, Lifestyle, Security, Entertainment and productivity.