Gaurav Bansal

VP of Engineering

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India15 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Achieved 300% improvement in app slowness.
  • Led team growth from 50M to 150M+ users.
  • Expert in mobile app performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C Mobile Applications Expert with a focus on performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile ApplicationsApp PerformanceUser EngagementFeature DevelopmentPlayer Performance

Other Skills

ASP.NETAndroid DevelopmentApp Performance OptimizationCCachingExoplayerFeature DesignJSPLive StreamingPlayer OptimizationServletsiOS Development

About

Expert in expeditious product launches, takes care of App performance & enthusiastic towards Player optimizations. Love to experiment and share the knowledge. Always try to Follow data driven approach which benefited to the product as well as to the team. Currently leading sony LIV android & ios teams, able to solve multiple user facing problems, in android phones and TVs we are now equal or even better than our peers with 300% improvement in app slowness and 100% improvement in Video start times with lowest playback failures in last one year. In ios & Apple TV, we are far better than before with improved scrolling and video play experience & still moving very fast to achieve our targets. Previously was leading the mobile team in gaana, tried to make it more awesome. Lived the journey where gaana reached from ~ 50M users to 150M+ users and cherished every bit of it ~ I've seen the complete life cycle of an app, from developing new features to user engagement, awesome player performance to modern player UI, beautiful UI to dynamic feature, Ads to subscription, downloads to local music, libraries to applications etc. Always tried to improve or enhance the analytics for efficient debugging and to define further actions, Focused to make time critical delivery with improved app performance with each build. I remained quite successful in delivering the products super fast with best in quality. Android, Java, Kotlin are my strong areas and exploring in iOS, Spring frameworks, python, OpenCV, ML and AI. I'm a hard believer in learning and sharing the knowledge each day, working towards increasing my contribution into open source.

Experience

Sony pictures networks india

2 roles

VP Head of android/iOS engineering

Promoted

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

AVP Technical Architect

Jan 2022Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

  • Leading sony LIV android & ios teams and re-architected the apps to make app & player performance best in industry.
  • Highlights : Smooth app browsing & navigation, secure code and APIs, 4K launch, contextual Ads support, Live streams, Uninterrupted DRM and non DRM streams in multiple media formats including HLS and DASH.

Gaana

4 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2021Jan 2022 · 9 mos

  • Expert in Player & Android vitals improvements and their impact in app ranking. Drived a team of 15 developers to enhance the app quality and promote the modern components into Android app development.

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jun 2020Mar 2021 · 9 mos

  • Lead and design the Short video feature, named as Hotshots, highlights were smooth streaming and best camera effects.
  • Single handedly developed & Designed Live streaming feature using RTMP

Technical Lead

Promoted

Jan 2018Jun 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Player improvement using caching and pre buffering, Best in industry Tap-to-Play time, expert in Exoplayer internals. Development of full social feature named as Buzz.

Software Developer

Sep 2015Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Gaana Android application development and feature enhancements
  • Technologies used : Android and Java

Samsung electronics

2 roles

Lead Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2015Sep 2015 · 6 mos

  • Worked in SRI Noida - Samsung R&D center for Mobile in Noida. Expertise in Launcher/Home Screen Module.

Software Engineer

Oct 2011Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Homescreen / Launcher Module of Android Smart phones which includes widgets, Animations, Wallpapers and other framework related tasks along with Launcher features.

Momagic technologies pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Jun 2011Oct 2011 · 4 mos · A-4, Logix park, 3rd floor, Sector 16, Noida (Delhi NCR)

  • Java Web Services, JSP and Servlets
  • J2ME - Mobile Application

Collegekhabar.com

Web developer (Part Time)

Jan 2010Jun 2010 · 5 mos

  • PHP Web development

Education

Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur

Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Aklank public school, Kota (Rajasthan)

12th — Science

Jan 2004Jan 2006

Adarsh Vidya Mandir, Deeg (Bharatpur) Rajasthan

10th

Jan 1992Jan 2004

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