Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• 1. Managing the entire SDK ( Mobile platform ) team, having 10 people.
• Current Team Structure -- 4 Android Devs, 4 IOS Devs, 1 Platform Lead, and 1 Engineering Manager.
• 2. Contributing to strategic planning across hiring, aligning functional goals with company goals, and bringing platform improvements & alignment across different functions in the organization.
• 3. On the people part, the key focus is to understand different pain points, contribute to keeping them motivated and certain and help them succeed.
• 4. Bringing improvements and streamlining different processes like scrum (standups, grooming, planning, retros), OKR Planning, Release Planning, and check-ins.
• 5. Introducing new practices like PR review checklists and guidelines, coding standards, pair programming, etc.
• 6. Collaborating with product and engineering teams in planning and prioritization processes.
• 7. Contributing as a hiring manager and creating a smooth onboarding process for the new joiners by working on a 30/60/90 days plan.
• 8. Working with the product and program teams to plan the OKR items for the next quarter.
• 9. Working with other EMs and senior leaders to identify areas where the team can be more aligned with the company's goals and strategies, as well as brainstorming and identifying ways for my team to contribute to the overall vision.
• 10. As an SDK team, we are responsible for releases and making sure that all the releases ( alpha, beta, and main ) and CherryPicks are happening on time.

Apr 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Managing the Core platform team ( 3 Android + 3 IOS ) and being involved in the development & design of the frameworks.
• 2. Frameworks include network, analytics, content, hybrid, navigation, auth, security, and a few others.
• The frameworks are consumed by the application and so we make sure that we give cleaner APIs, take care of concurrency, optimize the execution time, and are unit tested properly before we do an integration testing with the application.
• 3. Being a banking ( fin-tech ) app, the code quality is maintained at a very high level.

Jul 2019 – Apr 2020 · 9 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

• 1. Managing the in-house Android team of 4 members.
• 2. Scaling the Android ( health care ) app.
• 3. Adding new features and improving the existing codebase which was written by the vendors.
• 4. As a senior member of the newly formed team, providing technical support to the team members.
• 5. Played an integral part in production support

Nov 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Involved in many major releases that happened during my tenure.
• 2. Worked on new features, code optimization, and bug fixes.
• 3. Brainstormed ideas with product and UX teams based on user insights and analytics data.
• 4. Worked on search solutions like Algolia which helps to accelerate conversions in the E-Commerce business.

Nov 2015 – Oct 2016 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• 1. Worked with different clients on multiple projects and successfully delivered on time.
• 2. Used Cordova and Ionic in one of the applications and took care of the android part.
• 3. One of the interesting projects was Pill-Bottle. It's a medication reminder app.
• Some interesting work with Bluetooth and Android Services went into the Pill-Bottle project.

Mar 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bangalore

• 1. Successfully delivered multiple projects which catered to the food industry, Financial technology, and E-Commerce.
• 2. Lead offshore Android team from Onsite for JCPenney app and played a significant part in phase1 completion of the native app.
• 3. Developed challenging and complex UI screens for BJ's Restaurant app.

Jun 2013 – Mar 2014 · 9 mos · India

• 1. Adding new features and maintaining the existing waste management app DispatchTrackDelivery and building the new app DispatchTrackServiceManager app from scratch.
• 2. Very useful learnings as a member of product-startup org, which I still embrace in my daily activities.

Apr 2011 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

• 1. Spent the first 2 years of my career in continuous coding and app releases for different projects.
• 2. Being a part of a start-up, responsibilities widened into development, testing, and client coordination.
• 3. Also got a chance to mentor juniors and run a project on my own which gave me initial experiences of being a leader and managing a team.

Aug 2010 – Mar 2011 · 7 mos · Kolkata, West Bengal, India · On-site

• Building Java applications for a coaching center.