Shailesh Chandavar

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of mobile development expertise.
  • Led mobile teams for top brands like McDonald's and BBC.
  • Delivered 35+ impactful mobile applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Engineering Leader with extensive experience in B2C mobile application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile Application DevelopmentUser Experience (ux)It LeadershipMobile Application DesignTechnical ArchitectureIos

Other Skills

Android DevelopmentBusiness StrategyC#Coaching & MentoringDartFeature ImplementationFigma (Software)FlutterHTMLJavaJavaScriptKotlinMicrosoft OfficeMySQLNext.js

About

As a Senior Mobile Engineering Manager at WeWork India, I bring over a decade of expertise in iOS and Android development, having delivered 35+ apps across diverse industries. I've built and led mobile teams for top brands like Gojek, McDonald's, BBC, Paytm, and ICICI, transforming ideas into impactful, user-centric apps. At WeWork, I'm focused on driving innovation and delivering cutting-edge mobile solutions that enhance the workspace experience, all while mentoring talented engineers to reach their full potential.

Experience

Wework india

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote · Remote

User Experience (UX)Mobile Application DevelopmentFlutterDartFigma (Software)Team Leadership+11

Medibuddy

Engineering Manager

Oct 2022May 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • □Successfully managed a team of 10 people I have actively contributed in hiring a skilled and efficient team, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
  • □ Created a roadmap of tasks to be delivered for the iOS applications adding missing android features, motivated the team to achieve the same on time.
  • □ Lead the design of iOS applications in a modular fashion with reusable components.
  • □ Collaborated with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
  • □ Prioritized to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
  • □ Played the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment and helped the other developers with challenges, problem solving, achieving milestones as per the plan.
  • □ Hands on with programming with 35%+ of bandwidth going into modules owned.
IT LeadershipWorkable SolutionsiOSTechnical ArchitectureTeam LeadershipMobile Application Design+2

Apna

Lead Mobility Engineer

Oct 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • □ Managing a software engineering team that builds, designs and implements highly scalable and performant systems and applications.
  • □ Building iOS team for the company from ground to up.
  • □ Building android team for employer app.
  • □ Influencing and establish best engineering practices through strong design decisions, processes, and tools across the engineering teams.
  • □ Contribution to the architecture of the system, take responsibility for the quality and stability of the product by getting hands-on with code and design reviews, debugging complex issues, among other things.
  • □ Collaborating with Business and product teams to develop a long-term product roadmap, streamline and own product planning and release cycles.
  • □ Hiring engineers as required and nurture high-performing teams.
IT LeadershipWorkable SolutionsiOSTechnical ArchitectureTeam LeadershipMobile Application Design+1

Goto group

Lead Product Engineer

Dec 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand, multi-service tech platform providing access to a wide range of services including transport, payments, food delivery, logistics, and many more, serving millions of users.
  • Responsibilities:
  • □ Designing and developing whole new product i.e. GoBox single handedly from scratch.
  • □ Providing inputs to the Designers and product managers to enhance the user experience of
  • gobox application.
  • □ Regular interactions with Aloha team(i.e. GoJek’s UI/UX team) .
  • □ Taking design and Architectural decisions and providing documentation
  • □ Writing UI and Unit test cases to ensure good code quality.
  • □ Handling Interviews for GoJek.
IT LeadershipWorkable SolutionsiOSTechnical ArchitectureTeam LeadershipMobile Application Design+1

Lenskart.com

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Lenskart is India’s leading eyewear online portal with the objective to offer disruptive and one of its kind service to consumers. Lenskart currently operates 700 stores in India.
  • □ Revamping of Product description page, category screen, OTP verificationView, Coating screen, record power screen, User capture screen,
  • □ Implementation of Continuous Integration using Xcode Server
  • □ Implementation of grid layout, Dynamic Product Listing Page
  • Achievements :
  • □ Won developer of the quarter for Q1 2019
  • □ Won best feature award for Review and rating in Q1 2019
Workable SolutionsiOSTechnical ArchitectureTeam LeadershipMobile Application Design

Landmark group

Manager Technology - iOS

Aug 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • The Landmark Group is one of the largest retail and hospitality organisations in the Middle East, Africa and India.
  • Responsibilities:
  • □ Implementing Onboarding Shipping and thankyou screen, buy now, same day delivery, RBT, Gift cards, apple pass for iphone and iPad.
  • □ Refactoring already existing screens and increasing the app performance.
  • □ Bug fixes and code maintenance
Workable SolutionsiOSTechnical ArchitectureTeam LeadershipMobile Application Design

Robosoft technologies

Software Engineer Level-3 (iOS Developer)

Jul 2014Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Udupi

  • Projects- Mc Donald’s App, BBC - Story of Life , DIVRT, Happy Trips(Times network) ,AARP Now, Bank Watch - ICICI, Team Chat
  • Robosoft is a full-service digital experiences agency offering digital consulting, design strategy, UX/UI design and engineering services covering end-to-end mobile app development, emerging technologies like wearables, chatbots and more.
  • Responsibilities:
  • □ Involve in sprint planning. Help customer in selecting/prioritising stories appropriate for the sprint.
  • □ Involve in strategy and design phases and contribute ideas for the application flow.
  • □ Worked as lead developer and implemented all the modules of the app.
  • □ Implementation of location prediction screen using google places and services API.
  • □ Integration of PayPal and PayTM payment gateways.
  • □ Integration of Google and Facebook Login SDKs
  • □ Firebase integration for push notification.
  • □ Communication with the API team and suggestions on API structure.
  • □ Handle day-to-day communication with customer and keep track of sprint progress.
  • □ Responsible for integrating Apple wallet and Apple pay.
  • □ Handling push notifications and deep-links.
Workable SolutionsiOSMobile Application Design

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Engineer's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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