Nov 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

• Part of next-gen infotainment for Ford & Lincoln powered by Google Automotive OS with a panoramic display.
• Designed and shipped panoramic UI widgets (media, trips, TPMS, fuel economy, etc.)
• Delivered vehicle data to these widgets via AIDL, custom HALs, and Messenger IPC within AOSP.
• Maintained large-scale builds across Soong and Gradle, and implemented robust unit test coverage.

Jun 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

Aug 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Part of complete product development cycle where I am Designing, Prototyping, Coding, Mentoring and practically everything to make product awesome.
• Built a custom video player library in Kotlin using Google Exoplayer and IMA, which is highly modular and scalable and is powering 10+ Bell Media brands like CraveTV, CTV, CP24 and TSN to solve their media framework complexities.
• Leveraged MVP architecture pattern combined with TDD (Test Driven Development) to handle a generic multi-layered video player.
• Test coverage of every module by using JUnit4, Mockito, Roboelectric and Espresso frameworks.

Jun 2017 – Jul 2017 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Drive product roadmap / implementation for iOS and Android applications
• Handle building, QA process, and App Store (Google/Apple) submission for over dozen updates.
• Responsible for selection of best APIs, designing DB schema, practices for better mobile management and communication with all other stakeholders.

Jun 2016 – May 2017 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Product managed and implemented “Book Reading View” with blend of web and mobile technologies (HTML, JavaScript and Android NDK), including backend support.
• Trained team for implementing a modular design for better code structure and scalability.
• Initiated practise of code reviews and pushed a higher standard for the quality of code written in Java with better use of MVC, Reactive Programming, Observer Pattern and Dependency Injection.
• Defined QA Process for both iOS and Android apps.

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

• Code Chef @ Zomato
• Part of Zomato Base Team - https://www.zomato.com/base
• Development of world class POS (Point Of Sale) system based on Android ecosystem bundled with Custom Hardware.
• Developing backend solution for Native Android App using practically all form of communication techniques like AIDL, Content Providers, Sockets, Broadcast, Push Notification and other IPC techniques to make a centralised application servicing 3rd party applications
• Responsible for API consumption (data storage and retrieval) and delivering serialized data to 3rd party applications using or requesting for data.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Noida

• Working in Research & Development Unit of Samsung for Android Framework. Undertaken number of projects in India and Samsung HQ, South Korea and Dallas, Texas, USA.
• Development & Maintenance of UI Framework of Samsung Customized Android Platform i.e. TouchWiz.
• Responsible for delivering new features with timely implementation of new features on Android device and to make it work for different devices.
• Fix all the functionality and UI issues that occur in new device after porting Samsung customized Android OS to it.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr · Zirakpur

• One Man Army for development of Open source CRM (vTiger and sugarCRM) Android clients.
• Single-handedly took DroidTiger (open source CRM client) from development to production.
• Synchronising data using REST web-services using APIs provided with web clients.
• Managed the team to maintain the app thereafter.
• Fixed all issues reported on Play Store and during manual testing.